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Godzilla vs. Kong, commonly known as "Apex" is a 2021 American science fiction monster film directed by Legendary Pictures. It is the fourth installment in the MonsterVerse, after 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters. It serves as a sequel to both King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island.

Godzilla vs. Kong had a rough start to its development. The movie was supposed to come out on May 29, 2020, but then it was moved up to March 13, 2020, then November 20, 2020, and then May 21, 2021. Afterward, it was put back until March 26, 2021, before being released on March 31, 2021. The movie was also available on HBO Max through April 30, 2021, at the same time.

Producers Mary Parent, Alex Garca, Eric McLeod and Brian Rogers worked with director Adam Wingard to bring this project to the big screen. The film's script was written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, based on material by Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields. King of the Monsters was written by Borenstein, Dougherty, and Shields as well. In Godzilla vs. King of the Monsters, which takes place five years after the events of King of the Monsters, Godzilla and King Kong face off following Ghidorah's rampage.

A sequel to the film is currently in the works.

But when Jia shows up to the biodome and offers him a doll, the Titan, realizing that he's confined inside, promptly throws a tree at it.

Following the attack, the public, impressed by Godzilla's abilities to defend humanity, turned against him. Madison Russell, an adult listener to Bernie's podcast, is terrified about the newest Godzilla attack on her school. When she tries to reason with her widowed father Mark (who also happens to be the Monarch's director) regarding the origins of Godzilla's rampage, he dismisses all she says, only stating that animals may change like people. Madison enlists the help of her best friend Josh Valentine to solve the secrets surrounding Apex and the guy responsible for Godzilla's rampage.

Meanwhile, Apex's founder and CEO Walter Simmons recruits Nathan Lind, a former Monarch scientist turned Hollow Earth theorist, to help guide them to the Hollow Earth, an underground world below the Earth and the hidden home to the Titans, in search of a powerful energy source. At first, Nathan is initially hesitant since his brother tried to explore the Hollow Earth, but a strong anti-gravity field inside the tunnel ended up killing him. He finally agrees after Walter reveals that Apex has created and developed Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, specialized crafts that are capable of withstanding the gravity field's pressure.

The Titan arrives and attacks the soldiers before causing the barge to capsize, almost drowning Kong and the other passengers on board. As a result, Nathan frees Kong by cutting the chains that bind him, allowing him to fight Godzilla under the surface for long enough to swim up to the top and overturn the barge, saving the lives of the passengers. Then Godzilla leaps onto the deck of a nearby aircraft carrier to engage in combat with Kong. In order for Kong to successfully force Godzilla back into the ocean, fighter planes must properly distract Godzilla. King Kong rushes from the aircraft carrier in order to dodge the atomic explosion, but Godzilla grabs him by the tail and drags him into the ocean, where he plans to drown the Titan.

Nathan asks Ilene if Kong will go if he thinks there are others like him through there, and she tells Jia to ask Kong if his family could possibly be down there, prompting the Titan to enter the tunnel and the teams to follow him in their HEAVs.

Madison and Josh encounter Bernie, who recognizes Madison as Mark's daughter and joins their inquiry since they feel Apex had something to do with Godzilla's shift in behavior. The "eye" Bernie had mentioned before has vanished from the Apex headquarters they sneak into with. They accidentally trap themselves in an antigravity transport truck transporting Skullcrawler eggs and are taken to Hong Kong via an underground tube after discovering a hidden facility deep down.

Walter intends to vanquish Mechagodzilla by harnessing the power of the Hollow Earth. Apex is assaulting Godzilla because he and the Titans are being replaced by humans. Mechagodzilla is being controlled by Ren, who is seated within Apex's severed Ghidorah head five years after it was obtained from Alan Jonah.

Within the Hollow Earth, there is an ecosystem that is comparable to Skull Island. In the process of examining the region, they come under attack by two Warbats, one of which takes out one of the HEAVs. As a result of killing the first Warbat and slinging its corpse onto the second, which staggers it for a moment before recovering and constricting itself around him, Kong rescues the party. In the moments before suffocating Kong, Nathan and his crew launched a HEAV assault on the Warbat, enabling Kong to escape and hammer the monster to death before eating its guts for food.

When Godzilla makes his way into the city center and senses that Kong is lurking in the Hollow Earth, he uses his atomic breath to dig a hole through the biosphere, causing a temple to fall apart. Despite the fact that Kong and Nathan's team are fighting off a horde of Hellhawks and Maia and her team are attempting to escape in their HEAV, Kong manage to grab the aircraft and crush it in his hand after peeking inside to make sure Jia, Ilene, and Nathan are not inside, killing Maia and her crew.

Kong and Godzilla both recuperate and regain their feeting, with Godzilla on the lookout for Kong, who has taken refuge atop a tower. Kong throws a construction crane into a building, distracting Godzilla to the point where he ambushes him from above and attempts to strangle him, only for Godzilla to break free and unleash his full fury on Kong, dislocating his left arm, slashing him with his claws, and even stomping on his chest twice, despite Kong's attempts to force Godzilla off of him by punching his wounded thigh. With Kong restrained and held down, Godzilla roars violently at his adversary in a display of power, while Kong, beaten, angrily roars in defiance of Godzilla.

Walter tells Ren to dispatch Mechagodzilla to slay Godzilla back at Apex headquarters. The mecha is activated, despite Ren's warnings not to use the new Hollow Earth energy source without testing. The security guards also apprehend Bernie, Madison, and Josh and bring them to Walter. While Walter denies inciting Godzilla's war and triggering the whole mess, Madison accuses him of accepting responsibility for giving humans a chance to confront Godzilla and the Titans.

While Josh and Bernie fail to remotely disable the rampaging robot, and Madison calls for aid from Mark, Godzilla and Mechagodzilla fight, each firing their energy beams at each other, locking together, only for Mechagodzilla to win, knocking Godzilla down and burning him. The trio approach an unconscious Kong, where Jia notices his pulse decreasing. They can't produce a big enough charge to restart Kong's heart, but Nathan remembers Maia's earlier comment about the HEAVs producing enough power to power Las Vegas for a week, so he flies the remaining HEAV onto Kong's chest and sets it to self-destruct, detonating the craft and releasing a huge electrical charge that instantly revives Kong.

The two Titans work together to stem the tide, but the robot proves to be more powerful than their combined force and defeats them. Kong reclaims his axe, which he had lost during his previous encounter with Godzilla, and strikes numerous hits on Mechagodzilla, but his weapon, having lost its charge, is worthless against the robot, which tries to kill Kong with its tail drill. All appears lost for Kong and Godzilla, while Bernie, recognizing he and the others have no choice but to drink, takes out a flask of bourbon and suggests they all have a drink. Josh, on the other hand, takes the flask from Bernie's grip and short-circuits Mechagodzilla's controls by dumping the contents of the drink all over the control panel, causing Mechagodzilla to halt for a brief while, allowing Godzilla and Kong to regroup and reclaim the upper hand.

The atomic breath of Godzilla powers up Kong's axe as soon as he sees him wield it, enabling Kong to dismember Mechagodzilla and remove its head before raising his trophy in victory and taking a seat to relax.

Godzilla vs. Kong has received mostly good reviews. On the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has 341 reviews, 254 of which are fresh, and a "Tomatometer" with a 74 percent certified Fresh score as of April 16, 2021. "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." the site's reviewers' consensus section says.

At 113 minutes, Godzilla vs. Kong is the MonsterVerse's shortest film.

Godzilla vs. Kong is the shortest MonsterVerse film with a running duration of 113 minutes.

The film includes many references to NGE:

Kong, like Godzilla, jumps from ship to ship in order to avoid an angel.

The scenario in which Kong leaps from ship to ship is reminiscent to a scene in which Eva Unit-02 leaps from ship to ship in order to dodge an angel, a la Godzilla.

The base where Mechagodzilla is stationed has a striking similarity to the Central Dogma, being subterranean and topped by a pyramid.