Just a Hot Mess

Rating: 2/10 (27 November 2017)

This movie is, yet again, proof that just because you can do CG really well, you can't use it as a substitute for a good script. Somebody must have thought that if they took influences from Apocalypse Now, a little Indiana Jones (for the wildly unlikely "primitive" optical illusion tribal art), and Jurassic Park (SPOILER: Samuel L. even said "hold onto your butts!"), throw in some name actors with one-dimensional characters, you could mash it up and it would be great! They were wrong.
The ironic thing about this movie is that the original King Kong used stop-animation to bring the ape to life; this movie used the grossly overused and immensely irritating stop-action-so-you-can-look-at-the-cool-shot cliché to drop this steamer of a movie on us. It just goes to show that making movies doesn't require brains or talent, just money.
Giving this a "2" seems generous because it is "awful", but it's not Event Horizon awful.