Good Action, Bad Everything Else

Rating: 3/10 (5 July 2017)

Another cookie-cutter blockbuster that feels like it was written by a team of 12 year olds on a deadline. To its credit, the movie has great special effects and several scenes with Kong and other creatures are fun to watch. Yet the other redeeming qualities of good blockbusters are missing in action such that this is essentially a forty-five minute effects reel with an hour of inane "story" cut in. The humans in the film are forgettable, cookie-cutter versions of the same characters you've seen a million times. Oh look there's Sam Jackson. Oh look Alison Brie's emotive eyes. Oh look John C. Reilly, what a funny character. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but if this qualifies as a good movie I must be losing my mind.
I didn't pay to watch this and I wouldn't. It's a decent watch if you want to get some online shopping done in between explosions and monster fights but otherwise steer clear.