Godzilla and Kong’s team-up is an inevitability, but the film takes its sweet time getting there.
The more grounded scenes from Death Note anchor a startlingly bloody fantasy of power run amok.
The screenplay quickly loses this moral clarity as the plot twists pile up and the power balances shift.
It adds more grist for the mill to the notion that studios don’t hit the big red “reboot” button in any other state than a panic.
Sans a single compositional sleight of hand, it merely delighting in turning lights on and off and watching Zoe appear in random places.