Kong: Skull Island Movie Review

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A team of scientists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.


New huge blockbuster with a familiar face - Kong: Skull Island appeared to be a big and a very violent film. Right from the beginning it makes total sense that this movie is made just to introduce Kong in a new monster universe for Warner Brothers in which latest Godzilla ( 2013) took place. 

The main purpose of this movie is to entertain, so it does with clumsy action and many many deaths. This movie has a 70-s and a Vietnam war feel to it, and it always has cool music to remind about it. 

The story and the characters are very simple. It almost copies Peter Jackson's version. A squad of navies goes to an uncharted island with a bunch of scientists to explore it. Thus they drop special bombs to study it, which leads everyone into trouble. 

Kong:Skull Island

If we look at this movie from an artistic point of view then we will see a big mess with no character development, good plot devices or hooking story whatsoever. But the most awful thing that happened in this movie is the treatment of all characters in it. They whether die with no emotional meaning or they just don't do anything at all. 

Kong is in front and center of all action. There are a lot of fighting scenes with him and overall he was done pretty well. The big bad monster at the end wasn't difficult to defeat at all, and that took enjoyment out. The main villain though is a human. 

Acting was somewhere in the film but this movie wasn't made to enjoy drama or good interactions between the characters. So, Kong: Skull Island is a big messy flick. I can't say that the action was done well, it felt inconsistent and the CGI looked quite unconvincing. But it was pretty fun sometimes: John C. Reilly was a good comedic relief, Tom Hiddlestone played a bad-ass and sometimes it was enjoyable to watch him on screen and some other scenes were good. This is how I liked this movie. It has some good moments but I expected something more, that looks like a good motion picture.