“There can’t be two alphas,” insists Rebecca Hall’s Dr Ilene Andrews. Well, quite. Adam Wingard’s cleanly choreographed spin on the Japanese kaiju movie is vastly superior to 2019’s muddy Godzilla: King of the Monsters, pitting the radioactive lizard against ancient enemy King Kong and launching the latter into the Earth’s apparently hollow core. The spectacle is more involving than the plot, especially the dazzling image of Kong floating skyward, serene and surrounded by purple glowing rocks.

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