'Tis a silly film. But worth watching if you like that sort of thing.

Rating: 5/10 (5 April 2017)

So Kong: Skull Island. *****Spoiler Alert***** I quite enjoyed it, it is beautifully shot and the setting is excellent, the lost island comes alive on screen even down to the like insects buzzing about. I'll give it 2.5/5 as it's lot of nice shots with some reasonable acting in bits. The story on the whole is just the usual rubbish, lost island, recently re-discovered, go and have a look blah blah blah. This time it's the 1970's end of the Vietnam war and there are four groups of people: group A) Stupid scientists led by John Goodman Group B) Gung-Ho Vietnam helicopter Vets led by Samuel Jackson Group C) Pretty photographer lady and the bloke off Thor who isn't Thor. Maybe called Loki. (Don't worry about him though as he plays no useful part in the film) Group D) people already on the island. Natives and Pilot-Bloke out of WW2. I can't really be bothered to write up a proper review, just to say it's very silly, and the script is disappointing in it's lack of originality. Structurally the film seems to have a very long first act, and then relatively short second act and a microscopic third act. So it's all front heavy, and once they get there they don;t really know what to do. The best thing in it is The Lost WW2 Pilot, who gets all the best line and plays the moral compass which is interesting I suppose. The Bloke from Thor could be completely cut and does and achieves absolutely nothing, just a really odd role to bother with. The Vietnam Vets have just spent God knows how long in the jungle, so the silly scientists go and hire a bloke who knows about jungles. But they just hired the Vets? But, wait, hang on... Oh yes! They are silly scientists. Kong turns up in the opening shot and smashes stuff, and generally that's all he does. After so many films with giant creatures in: Kong, Godzilla, Cloverfield etc, could we possibly come up with a scenario where huge creatures do something other than just smash stuff? We know that monkeys and Apes are intelligent so why not have them do something intelligent? And after a while the endless fights Kong Vs Squid-thing, Kong Vs Helicopters and Kong Vs Biped-monster thing become a bit repetitive to be honest. All the scenes with the indigenous people in look wonderful but have absolutely no purpose at all, I just felt that they should have been involved in the story in somewhat rather than just being background colour. I enjoyed the film, looks like they had fun making it, but i just wish that Hollywood screenwriters would justify the huge sums they got paid by actually doing something original. 'Tis a silly film. But worth watching if you like that sort of thing.