What happens when you have one of the worst screenwriters in Hollywood, Alex Kurtzman, try to direct a Universal monster movie for the first time along with trying desperately to make a cinematic universe, but kinda fail? You get this movie.
Then again the Universal and the Japanese monster movies have used a shared universe way before Marvel made it a thing to trend nowadays.
Then again the Universal and the Japanese monster movies have used a shared universe way before Marvel made it a thing to trend nowadays.