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Godzilla vs. Kong, also known as "Apex" is a 2021 American science fiction monster film directed by Legendary Pictures and produced by Legendary Pictures. It is the fourth entry in the MonsterVerse franchise, following Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019 and serving as a sequel to both King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island.

Godzilla vs. Kong has had a bumpy road to release, first being planned for May 29, 2020, then March 13, 2020, then November 20, 2020, and finally May 21, 2021. It was then rescheduled for March 26, 2021, before finally hitting cinemas on March 31, 2021 in the United States. Until April 30, 2021, the film was also available to watch on HBO Max.

Adam Wingard directs the picture, which is produced by Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Eric McLeod, and Brian Rogers. Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein wrote the script, which is based on a narrative by Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields. Borenstein, Dougherty, and Shields collaborated on the novel King of the Monsters as well. Godzilla vs. Kong takes place five years after King of the Monsters and pits Godzilla and Kong against one another in the aftermath of Ghidorah's rampage.

A sequel to the film is in the works.

A dramatic confrontation between fabled rivals Godzilla and Kong is the focus of "Godzilla vs. Kong" Along on the adventure is Jia, an orphaned child with whom Kong has built an unbreakable bond. But they find themselves in the path of an infuriated Godzilla, wreaking havoc throughout the globe. It is simply the beginning of the enigma that lurks deep below 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.

However, when Jia visits Kong and offers him a toy, the Titan, realizing that he is stuck within the biodome, quickly tosses a tree at it.

Bernie Hayes, an employee of the Apex Cybernetics corporation and the host of the Titan Truth Podcast, a Titan conspiracy theory podcast, exfiltrates information pointing to sinister activities at a Pensacola Apex facility, but just as he is about to finish downloading the files, Godzilla appears and launches an unexpected attack. The remains of the facility include a bizarre piece of technology that resembles a huge robotic eye, which Bernie finds after Godzilla's spree of destruction.

In the aftermath of the attack, public opinion has turned against Godzilla, who is no longer viewed as humanity's savior. Madison Russell, now grown up and a fan of Bernie's podcast, sees the news about Godzilla's recent attack at her school and is worried. After school, she tries unsuccessfully to talk sense into her widowed father Mark (who is acting as Monarch's director), regarding a possible lead on the cause of Godzilla's rampage, but he dismisses everything she says as he only replies that creatures, just like people, can change. Later, Madison enlists the help of her best friend Josh Valentine to investigate the one behind Godzilla's rampage and figure out the secrets of Apex.

A tremendous energy source is sought after by Apex's creator and CEO Walter Simmons who has recruited Hollow Earth theorist and former Monarch scientist Nathan Lind to assist lead them to the Hollow Earth, a place under our planet's surface where the Titans live in secret. Nathan is apprehensive at first since his brother attempted to explore the Hollow Earth, but an anti-gravity field within the tunnel killed him. After Walter discloses that Apex has built and produced Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, specialized vehicles that can survive the strain of the gravity field, he finally accepts.

Because Skull Island can no longer accommodate him (due to Kong's massive size), Nathan offers that they employ Kong as a navigator to guide them to the energy source. When Nathan persuades Ilene to assist in putting a stop to Godzilla's rampage and finding Kong a new home, she agrees to do so.

The Apex crew, lead by Walter's daughter Maia, board a customized barge with a barely drugged Kong locked up to keep him from escaping. Jia soothes Kong down by enabling her and Kong to clasp fingers in solidarity while Kong signs the word "home" much to Ilene's surprise. The next day, Ilene tells Nathan about how she raised Jia as her adopted daughter after a series of deadly and unpredictable storms killed all the Iwi and her parents, but Jia was the only one to survive since Kong shielded her, leading to the two of them developing a close friendship.

Their struggle is broken up, however, when Godzilla is distracted by depth charges, allowing Kong to surface for air.

Nathan, seeing no other choice, suggests that the gang should instead turn off the power to all the ships in order to fool Godzilla into believing he destroyed them and Kong was vanquished, which finally works. Godzilla takes an inquisitive look at the decimated fleet and swims away, certain he has triumphed. Recognizing that reactivating the ships may result in Godzilla's reappearance, the party alters their plans and instead fly Kong to a Hollow Earth entrance point in Antarctica, the location of Ghidorah's initial freezing. Jia explains to Kong that his house is through the entryway, but he is averse to going.

Seeing that Kong can't live in the cold and that they can't return him to Skull Island, Nathan asks Ilene whether Kong would go if he believes there are others like him down there, and she tells Jia to persuade Kong that his family may potentially be down there, causing the Titan to enter the tunnel.

Walter intends to use the energies of the Hollow Earth in order to defeat Mechagodzilla. As a result of Apex's attack on Godzilla, he and the Titans are being phased out and replaced by humans. Five years after Apex got the severed head of Ghidorah from Alan Jonah, Ren is now seated inside it, operating Mechagodzilla through radio waves. Apex acquired the head from Alan Jonah five years ago.

Kong and Nathan's group discover a similar ecology to Skull Island within the Hollow Earth. They are ambushed by a pair of Warbats while traversing the area, with one of the HEAVs being destroyed by one of them. Kong saved the party by killing the first Warbat and swinging its carcass into the second, knocking it out, but the beast recovers and constricts around him. Before the Warbat can smother Kong, it is hit by missiles fired by Nathan's squad in their HEAV, allowing Kong to escape and viciously thrash the monster to death before gorging on its intestines.

Following that, Kong and Nathan's squad continue their trek, finally arriving to a massive stone temple that was previously home to Kong's forefathers. They discover remnants of an old fight between Kong's and Godzilla's races as they investigate within, while Kong discovers an ancient axe fashioned from a dead member of Godzilla's race's dorsal plate before sitting on a massive throne. As Nathan's crew discovers the power source necessary to supplement Mechagodzilla's power supply, Kong discovers that the same power source can also be used to replenish the axe. Despite Ilene's protests that Apex cannot just grab the millennium's greatest discovery, Maia and the Apex crew collect the power source and return it to their Hong Kong headquarters using spider-like drones. Maia directs her guards to shoot at Nathan's squad, prompting Kong to aggressively yell at them in defense. Meanwhile, Mechagodzilla starts transmitting a signal to Godzilla, who detects the machine's activation and immediately rushes for Hong Kong.

Godzilla recovers and rises up as he hunts for Kong atop a skyscraper. Kong ambushes Godzilla from above and puts him in a chokehold with the intention of strangling him. Despite Kong's attempts to get Godzilla off of him by striking his damaged leg, Godzilla breaks free and unleashes his entire rage on him, dislocating his left arm, slicing him with his claws, and even stomping on his chest twice. Godzilla roars angrily at Kong, his vanquished foe who is bound and pinned.

When Ren arrives at Apex headquarters, Walter orders Mechagodzilla to deploy Godzilla to murder him. Although Ren has warned them not to utilize the new Hollow Earth energy source before testing it, the mecha has been activated instead. Bernie, Madison, and Josh are also captured by the security personnel and brought to Walter's office. Madison accuses Walter of taking responsibility for giving mankind the opportunity to fight Godzilla and the Titans, despite the fact that Walter maintains that he did not incite Godzilla's war or cause the entire catastrophe.

Unbeknownst to Walter, Mechagodzilla goes wild under the influence of both the energy source and Ghidorah's brain networks, ending in the robot murdering Walter with a sweep of its palm and Ren being electrocuted. Mechagodzilla, now possessed by Ghidorah's mind, escapes from the Apex facility under Victoria Peak Mountain and rampages over the city, evading confrontation with Godzilla. Mechagodzilla quickly approaches Godzilla and launches a volley of missiles at its biological counterpart before the two engage in combat.

Godzilla, despite having already become tired from his previous fight against Kong, and Mechagodzilla battle, at one point both firing their energy beams at one other which lock together, only for Mechagodzilla to get the upper hand and push Godzilla down and burn him. Nathan, Ilene, and Jia approach an unconscious Kong, where Jia notices that his heartbeat is slowing down. While Mechagodzilla proceeds to overrun and severely beat Godzilla, the others approach an unconscious Kong. In response, Ilene explains that they are unable to generate a charge large enough to restart Kong's heart. However, remembering what Maia said earlier about the HEAVs producing a charge large enough to power Las Vegas for a week, Nathan flies the remaining HEAV onto Kong's chest and sets it to self-destruct, detonating the craft and unleashing a massive electrical charge that instantly revives Kong.

As Mechagodzilla prepares to fire its red energy beam down Godzilla's throat, Kong leaps onto the robot and redirects the beam into the air, saving Godzilla's life in the process. Realizing that Kong saved his life and sensing an ally in him upon seeing that he is not an enemy, Godzilla helps Kong fight against Mechagodzilla.

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.

Monarch has built an observation station in the Hollow Earth at some point in the future. Ilene, Nathan, and Jia observe Kong as he walks down the street one morning. Kong jumps atop a cliff, pounds his chest, and roars, proclaiming himself king of the Hollow Earth and enthusiastically accepting it as his new home and kingdom after signing "home" to Jia.

The film Godzilla vs. Kong has received overwhelmingly good reviews. Currently, as of April 16, 2021, the film has 341 reviews on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, with 254 of them being fresh. The film also has a "Tomatometer" rating of 74 percent certified Fresh, according to the site. According to the site's critics' consensus feature, "Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you'd expect from giant monsters slugging it out," and "Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you'd expect from giant monsters slugging it out."

On April 17, 2021, it was revealed that Godzilla vs. Kong had topped the entire box office of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, despite the still relatively low box office owing to the epidemic.

This is the first time Godzilla and King Kong have appeared in a film together in 59 years, since 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla.

It's Terry Rossio's first Godzilla picture since he wrote the script for the 1994 feature that was never created.

If Kong slams his dislocated right shoulder on a building to move it, then it may be a reference to Martin Riggs' notorious ability in the Lethal Weapon series.

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

The scene where Kong jumps from ship-to-ship is similar to a scene where Eva Unit-02 jumps from ship-to-ship trying to avoid an angel, much like Godzilla.