A Vietnam War/ Monster Movie Mash-up that Misfires

Rating: 2/10 (27 March 2018)

All I could think watching Kong: Skull Island was that the director must have grown up watching Platoon (1986), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Hamburger Hill (1987) and every other movie about the Vietnam War and desperately wanted to make a 'Nam movie, but all the studio was willing to give him was a King Kong film.
The final product is a disjointed, illogical mash-up of a film that includes every Vietnam War movie cliche shoe-horned with great contrivance into a King Kong story.
This film goes to absurd lengths to include scenes of Huey helicopters approaching an LZ to a late 60's rock-and-roll soundtrack and soldiers wading chest deep through rice paddies.
Somewhere amidst this is a bland, script and a cast that is entirely forgettable except for a wildly miscast Samuel L. Jackson and a rather pointless John C. Reilly.
This is a Vietnam War movie that hijacks a King Kong movie and ends up with a "huh?" final product that contributes nothing to either genre.