Kong: Skull Island (2017)

terrible... so disappointed.

Absolutely Fantastic

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Horrible script. Bad special effects. Not worth it.

Having seen the film, the animations and visual effects were superb! However, the story line for this sequel wasn't as good as I expected. Here are my opinions why:1) What triggered me the most was the Photographer character who didn't really have a role in the movie and was just documenting the events. She wasn't any help to other characters and for somewhat a 'main' character, she was quite boring and wasn't necessary for the film. The director probably wanted to keep the "there should be a woman involved in King Kong sequel" trend, but he could have done it better.2) Other characters relating to this is Tom's character and the Asian scientist. Tom's character as a Captain didn't really show as much - Captains known for their leadership, bravery and intelligence. Yes, he showed leadership and took care of the other characters but without him, the others could have survived through instinct especially there wasn't a lot going on during their scene. Harsh to say but I think the director used Tom to hide the fact that the story isn't that good. As for the Asian scientist, she was as useless as the photographer.3) I wasn't surprised to see Samuel Jackson (again) - knowing he's literally been in every movie nowadays. His character was ok but I think they should have taken more time to improve his character. Instead of him wanting to kill Kong for revenge and that "people or children shouldn't grow up knowing there's a 'monster' on a mysterious island", his role could have been, maybe, a traitor or a hunter, knowing that if he kills Kong, he'll earn a lot of money. This can be a sequel from the previous movie of when Kong was captured for entertainment - some thing like that.4) The only part of the story that I liked was when John Reilly discussed the history of Kong and what could happen next. That made the movie. I think they should have placed in a scene of Kong's history - how these creatures exist, what was their purpose.

Kong: Skull Island is another attempt from Warner Brothers to launch a shared-universe since their DC-Extended Universe has gotten a bit rusty outside Wonder Woman. Anyway, how does the universe with a monkey and a Japanese dinosaur compare to the DCEU, let alone Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe? Entertaining but not all that special either. There are war-movie cliches we've seen a dozen times before (helicopter imagery derived from Apocalypse Now) and disaster-movie tropes done in Jurassic Park (dumb characters not figuring out the obvious), and the same savage tribe from the other King Kong movies (although to be fair they do tone down the racism with them here).Kong is still a money-magnet somewhat, but there seems to be a REAL strech to turn the King Kong canon into something like The Star Wars Expanded Universe or something. Hell, MARVEL was lucky in getting Iron Man to work on the big screen back in 2008. This shared universe thing is getting a bit tiring and these efforts seem half-assed and rushed in order to get in on an appealing craze without trying to tell a well-balanced story to get the audience in on at square one. Well, there might be more story to this franchise than Skull Island and its King, though I can't see all that much ahead of this movie just yet.Skull Island gets 3/5 stars for me. Not a bad movie. Let it pass.

Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L Jackson star in this movie, has to be a guarantee that this is going to be a cracking movie - how wrong can you be. On a positive note the SFX are pretty impressive if a bit stupid in places.. The story line is ridiculous. Take the stories of King Kong, Jurasic Park, 10,000 years BC and The Land that Time Forgot, throw them in a melting pot, give it a good stir and out pops this movie. Is it watchable? Just if only for the SFX. Would we watch it again, not likely but you never know.