Not bad, just slightly underwhelming

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2017)

A team of soldiers and scientists discover an uncharted island named Skull Island, which they travel to in an attempt to mark as their own by dropping explosives onto the island. However they soon discover that the island contains a gigantic ape known as Kong and that the inhabitants of the island also contains a wide variety of giant creatures. Needless to say, Kong goes berserk and smashes most of the helicopters leaving a small group of survivors to try and escape the island alive. As far as story goes, I'll leave it at that for those who haven't seen it.
I had been waiting to see this for some time, especially after the recent Legendary Godzilla movie from 2014. I must say that while I was entertained, I guess my expectations were a little too high especially since this had to follow Peter Jackson's remake from 2005, which I still think is superior to this movie. It's a good reimagining of the King Kong character, and while the monster action is terrific, the human characters are quite bland though most of the main actors (Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, John Goodman and especially John C Reilly) do a great job, their characters are not as fully developed as you think. However this can all be forgiven as this is a creature feature first and foremost.
As far as Kong himself goes, yes he is bigger than ever and looks great, this version of Kong reminds me of the 1976 version, being that it stands upright and moves just like a human rather than on all fours like the original and Peter Jackson's remake. As I stated this is more of a creature feature, do not expect the traditional beauty and the beast storyline as previous films. If you go into this movie expecting monster action, then yes you get that, although do not watch the trailer as it spoils most of the creatures.
And whatever you do, do not miss the after credits sequence, that part alone made me act like a 5 year old again.