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After 59 years it finally happened. After over forty films it finally happened. After three previous entries in the Monsterverse it finally happened. After over a year of delays it finally happened. There is at long last, a kaiju film where the KAIJU is the protagonist of the story. Not the secondary character, not the macguffin of the human plot, the one who takes on THIS Heroes Journey is the monster. The movie makes it's point right from the start. The first character we see in this story... is Kong. Not twenty minutes into the movie, not in whispered dialogue, not in obscured visual shots, but right there in daylight, in multi-million dollar CGI glory. This is Kong's movie. No longer the adolescent seen in Kong: Skull Island, the giant ape has reached maturity but his world has only gotten smaller. The permanent storm systems have destroyed most of the island as well as it's inhabitants, only a small portion has been maintained by the monster control organization Monarch.

Sad as it is to say, Transformers has been on a decline ever since Transformers: Prime came to it's conclusion in Beast Hunters. None of the animated series that have followed have been able to reach the same quality. The Bumblebee film was a valiant if flawed attempt to improve the film franchise, the fate of which remains in flux. The less said about the comics the better. Befitting their name, the Transformers have always managed to change and adapt, finding a new form for it's core story: the struggle of the Autobots against the Decepticons. This is why they have endured across decades and become iconic, if not always in the most ideal ways. One of the stronger entries this last decade has been the “War for Cybertron Siege” toyline, which featured versions of the Transformers cast that were relatively close to their “G1 Standard” versions but with a greater degree of detail to evoke characters that have endured many centuries of war. Usually with Transformers, an animated series

This review has been surprisingly more difficult than expected. For the purpose of transparency, I must admit a personal bias. I have always felt that Rambo (2008) was the perfect finale to the series. I think that sequel was the best fulfillment we could ever expect for a Rambo film almost two decades beyond it's prime era. However, ever since that film's release, Stallone has discussed making this Rambo film, that he had in effect one more Rambo story to tell. Personally I felt it was unnecessary, that no conclusion could top the one from 2008's Rambo. So it's possible I might be coming to this movie unfairly, because for me, it has a ve