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A sequel to King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American science fiction monster film produced by Legendary Pictures. It is the fourth installment in the MonsterVerse, after Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Apex (working title).
Adam Wingard directed the film, which was written by Michael Dougherty and Zach Shields. Borenstein, Dougherty, and Shields wrote it. It is five years after King of the Monsters when Godzilla and Kong square battle in Godzilla versus Kong.
A follow-up sequel for the film is in development.
The epic antagonists clash in a dramatic confrontation in "Godzilla vs. Kong" with the destiny of the planet hanging in the balance. Kong and his guards go on a risky trip in search of his rightful home, and Jia, a little orphaned girl with whom he has built a profound attachment, joins them. However, they find themselves in the path of an infuriated Godzilla, who is wreaking havoc around the globe. The epic battle between the two titans, which was sparked by invisible powers, is merely the start of the mystery that lurks deep under the Earth's core.
In 2024, five years after Godzilla and Ghidorah fought and killed each other for power, Godzilla and Kong are still the only Titans on Earth. Skull Island's climate has become unstable because of a storm caused by Ghidorah and the storm cell that surrounds the island. Monarch had to keep Kong inside a dome-shaped facility that simulated the island's environment, with an orphaned young Iwi girl named Jia, who is deaf and can communicate with Kong through sign language, as his company.
Meanwhile, Bernie Hayes, an Apex Cybernetics employee and the presenter of the Titan Truth Podcast, exfiltrates material indicating dark operations at a Pensacola Apex facility, but as he finishes downloading the data, Godzilla appears and suddenly strikes. Among the debris of the facility after Godzilla's rampage, Bernie discovers a curious piece of technology like a big robotic eye.
Meanwhile, Apex founder and CEO Walter Simmons engages Nathan Lind, a former Monarch scientist turned Hollow Earth theorist, to assist them in their hunt for a tremendous energy source in the Hollow Earth, a subterranean planet under the Earth and the secret home of the Titans. Nathan is first skeptical, since his brother attempted to investigate the Hollow Earth and was killed by a powerful anti-gravity field within the tube. He ultimately accepts when Walter explains that Apex has constructed Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, customized ship capable of withstanding the gravity field's pressure.
Nathan travels to Skull Island and meets his colleague, Monarch anthropological linguist and Jia's adoptive mother Ilene Andrews, with the idea of using Kong as their navigator to lead them to the energy source because Skull Island can no longer contain him and allow him to survive (because Kong has grown too large). Though Ilene first refuses, explaining that Godzilla would come for Kong as soon as he was transferred off Skull Island, she eventually agrees when Nathan convinces her that they must undertake this mission in order to end Godzilla's rampage and to find Kong a new home.
Nathan, Ilene, Jia, and an Apex team led by Walter's daughter Maia board a specially designed boat with a moderately drugged Kong tied up. That night, Kong becomes restless and nervous, but Jia calms him down by having her and Kong clasp their fingers together and sign the word "home" for Ilene. The next day, Ilene tells Nathan how she raised Jia as her own when fierce and unpredictable storms killed most of the Iwi and her parents, but Jia was the only survivor since Kong protected her, which led to their connection.
The Titan attacks the soldiers before capizing the barge and almost drowning Kong and the others on board. Finally, Nathan releases Kong's bindings, allowing him to fight Godzilla under the surface long enough to swim up to the surface and overturn the barge, saving the passengers from drowning. Then Godzilla leaps onto a nearby aircraft copyright to face Kong. Fighter planes successfully distract Godzilla before Kong can force Godzilla back into the ocean. Kong rushes off the copyright to dodge the atomic explosion, but Godzilla wraps his tail around him and drags him into the ocean, attempting to drown the Titan.
During this time, Madison and Josh come into Bernie, who recognizes Madison as Mark's daughter and decides to assist them with their inquiry since they suspect Apex was involved in Godzilla's shift in behavior. With Bernie's help, they infiltrate the devastated Apex facility, only to discover that the "eye" Bernie had mentioned before is no longer there. As they investigate a mysterious facility deep down, the gang is mistakenly imprisoned inside and carried via an underground conduit to Hong Kong in an antigravity transport vehicle transporting Skullcrawler eggs.
A mechanical version of Godzilla, "Mechagodzilla" is being operated by Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's son, Walter's top technological officer, Ren Serizawa, as the trio disembarks in the darkened room they found themselves in. Just as soon as Walter activates Mechagodzilla, he throws a gigantic adult Skullcrawler nicknamed "Number 10" into the chamber to see how strong the mecha would be while facing off against the Titans. When the Skullcrawler is about to attack Madison, Josh, and Bernie, Mechagodzilla grabs it and restrains it with a tremendous red energy beam, enabling Josh, Bernie, and Madison to take cover in a tiny hatch. Because of power supply limits, the test is halted at the point of its completion.
It is then revealed that Walter intends to harness the power of the Hollow Earth's energy to overcome Mechagodzilla's limitations. In the end, Madison realizes that Apex is trying to get rid of Godzilla and all the Titans so that humans can be the Earth's apex species. In the middle of looking for an exit, Madison and the other people find themselves in a room where Ren is sitting inside the severed head of Ghidorah. The head has been turned into a biological supercomputer and cockpit for Ren to control the robot through radio waves, which he can use to control Mechagodzilla. It was bitten off by Godzilla five years ago during his fight with Ghidorah.
Kong and Nathan's squad then begin their quest, finally arriving at a massive stone temple that belonged to Kong's forefathers. They discover remnants of an old struggle between Kong's and Godzilla's races as they explore the inside, and Kong discovers an ancient axe crafted from a dorsal plate of a dead member of Godzilla's species before settling upon a massive throne. Kong discovers that the same power source that Nathan's team needs to increase Mechagodzilla's power supply can also recharge Kong's axe. Despite Ilene's protests that Apex cannot just grab the discovery of the century, Maia and the Apex crew utilize spider-like drones to collect the power source and transport it back to their Hong Kong headquarters. Maia orders her soldiers to fire at Nathan's crew, but Kong screams passionately in defense. Meanwhile, Mechagodzilla sends a signal to Godzilla, who detects the machine's activation and rushes towards Hong Kong.
There, Godzilla enters the center of the city and, recognizing Kong's presence in the Hollow Earth, uses his atomic breath to bore a tunnel through the biosphere, collapsing the temple. Kong and Nathan's team fight off a flock of Hellhawks while Maia and her team attempt to flee in their HEAV, but Kong grabs it on their way out and, despite Maia's attempts to shoot him in order to escape, instantly crushes the aircraft in his hand after peeking inside to ensure Jia, Ilene, and Nathan are not inside, killing Maia and her personnel.
So amazed by Kong's strength and skill, Godzilla spares his life before walking away, leaving him alive but gravely damaged.
While Josh and Bernie attempt in vain to remotely deactivate the rampaging robot and Madison attempts to summon Mark for assistance, Godzilla, despite having grown tired from his earlier battle against Kong, and Mechagodzilla battle, at one point both fire their energy beams at each other, which lock together, only for Mechagodzilla to gain the upper hand, knocking Godzilla over and burning him. While Mechagodzilla proceeds to overrun and seriously beat Godzilla, Nathan, Ilene, and Jia approach an unconscious Kong, where Jia detects a slowing of his pulse. Ilene explains that they can't generate a large enough charge to restart Kong's heart, but Nathan, remembering Maia's earlier comment about the HEAVs producing a charge large enough to power Las Vegas for a week, flies the remaining HEAV onto Kong's chest and sets it to self-destruct, detonating the craft and releasing a massive electrical charge that instantly revives Kong.
As much as the Titans try to unite and change the tide, the robot proves to be too powerful for them. It is revealed that Kong had previously lost his axe when fighting Godzilla, and he reclaims it from the ruins and tries to use it against Mechagodzilla, but his weapon is rendered ineffectual by the robot's tail drill. With nothing left to do, Bernie takes out a flask of vodka and suggests that they all go out for a drink. The flask Bernie had been holding was snatched by Josh, who had an idea and poured the contents of the flask on the control panel, causing Mechagodzilla to halt and enabling Godzilla and Kong the time to recover.
When Godzilla sees Kong holding his axe, he supercharges it by blasting it with his atomic breath, enabling Kong to dismember Mechagodzilla limb by limb and take its head off before holding up his prize and sitting down to rest with a tremendous shout of victory.
Godzilla vs. Kong has received mostly good reviews. As of April 16, 2021, the film has 341 reviews on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, 254 of which were fresh, with a "Tomatometer" rating of 74% certified Fresh. According to the site's critics' consensus, "Delivering squarely on its title, Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you'd expect from giant monsters slugging it out."
Since 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla, Godzilla and King Kong have not appeared in a film together.
Terry Rossio's first Godzilla film, based on an unproduced screenplay from 1994.
He is the only actor who has been in a King Kong movie and a Godzilla movie as well as a crossover movie with both of them in the same cast.
Godzilla vs. Kong is the MonsterVerse's shortest film, clocking in around 113 minutes.
It is comparable to a sequence in which Eva Unit-02 hops from ship to ship while attempting to dodge an angel, which takes place in the same film as Godzilla's jump from ship to ship.
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