Don't do it

Rating: 1/10 (11 April 2017)

I'm not one to stop a film half way through, I like to see things to the end but this is one of the rare times I actually had to put myself out of misery and press the stop button. Now I didn't get a chance to see this film at the cinema, which I'm now very grateful for. After seeing the trailer for this film, I clicked on this title optimistically. I then saw Samuel. L Jackson was part of the cast and then my doubt began.
Now don't get me wrong, a few of his film I have enjoyed; Jurassic park, avengers, the incredibles, but this actor is one I don't always trust in his career choices. Just by the upward pan of this character when you first see him makes me anticipate the very "American" way this has been filmed, much like the ongoing sequence after sequence Michael Bay films which include the low angles and harshly lit actors, with their slow motion moves overtaking the amount of action in his "action" films.
Now back to this film, the cast of this film made me feel a little more at ease with the talent of John Goodman, Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson but what soon followed were the restoring fuelled explosions and total disregard for nature, exploration and animals. Of course the nature of the "shoot first, ask later" was off the scale and what did surprise me was how quickly we actually got to meet Kong. For me, any film which includes animals has to do their research and this was another reason as to why I switched off. Why on earth would a 900ft tall Ape walk like a human?! It is not natural and something which screamed laziness by the director. Now the pinnacle moment in which I grabbed the remote was when it was quite clear the anger fuelled Samuel L Jackson's character was developing a vendetta towards the animal he has just tried to slaughter with ammunition. After the many explosions, cue the extreme close up of eyes, highlighted by flames and smoke and dumb dumb duuuuuuuuh a total cliché and ultimately....catastrophe.
So please, don't do it.