After our recent trip to The Backlot cinema in Blackpool, we watched this rather questionable spectacle within their beautiful new establishment. Here’s our Godzilla x Kong The New Empire IMAX review.

Godzilla and the almighty Kong face a colossal threat hidden deep within the planet, challenging their very existence and the survival of the human race.
After the one decent Godzilla movie (Godzilla Minus One) that we’ve seen in decades scooped an Oscar Godzilla x Kong is the one that the big studios served up and dear god, I can’t get those hours back.
Whilst looking stunning on the big screen Godzilla x Kong was a disengage your brain and enjoy the pretty pictures type of movie. IMAX was designed to watch these types of movies on the big screen with incredible visuals and amazing sound but sadly the filmmakers served us up a shit sandwich with this one!
Monsterverse fans don’t care too much about the storyline, very much in the same vein as Marvel fans. Slap in some epic fight sequences and get an infinity gauntlet strapped around Kong’s hand and they’ll lap it up over and over again.

Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry and Kaylee Hottle all reprise their roles as Ilean, Bernie and Jia but are joined by Dan Stevens, a quirky Ace Ventura-style hippie who is one with the creatures around him, introduced to the audience extracting a tooth from a sedated Kong’s mouth.
His character was rather funny and certainly was the only redeeming character of the entire film with everyone else underutilised and poor Brian Tyree Henry whittled down to cheap one-liners that whilst delivered with comedic genius just felt like he was under-written like everyone else.
This is a film made for IMAX but sadly not a film you care about or wish to see again once it’s finished. The storyline is all over the place and it takes a back seat to giant monsters fighting each other in CGI beauty.
I found it lazy and quite pathetic in every department and I’d much rather have a film where you can feel the filmmakers genuinely care about the core subject. Godzilla Minus One is a prime example of a film where the makers care about the features they are making.

Hand on heart I cannot say the same for this movie as sadly Adam Wingard and the team have ruined a cinematic icon, not just one, but two! 
Fancy visuals and an epic soundtrack combine to make it a beautiful IMAX experience but you want to go to the theatre to see a film, not a glorified showreel for IMAX capabilities.
These IMAX-certified digital cameras provide a 1.90:1 aspect ratio and provide up to 26% more pictures increasing the immersiveness.

There are no post-credits scenes in Godzilla x Kong The New Empire, so grab your popcorn and your drink and exit the cinema never to return to see this trash bag of a movie again.
IMAX is the star of this particular cinema-going experience as Godzilla x Kong The New Empire IMAX is something I need to erase from my memory immediately. 

Our Rating

Summary
A waste of 2 hours but a film where you can appreciate the capabilities of IMAX from an incredible picture to gloriously immersive sound, a hollow soulless Hollywood cash grab such as Godzilla x Kong is the perfect demo for just how beautifully fine-tuned an IMAX cinema-going experience can be!