meh ... just, meh

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2017)

Perhaps we've been spoiled by previous King Kong movies and the myriad of monster movies in the past, but this movie was at best "meh" ... average, so-so, just OK, nothing to write home about.
The movie itself was OK, moved at a good pace, some nice scenery, but as a whole the movie only skimmed the surface of what a great movie should be.
There might be a case of the movie trying to be a bit of everything but somehow failing or just being average at all the things it tried to accomplish. The movie didn't really have an identity. I don't think it even knows what it wants to be.
And I do have a bone to pick with how they did King Kong ... he's more upright than usual ... to me, he's a gorilla, but as we see on the trailer/pictures, he's standing like a man ... with short legs, or shorter legs than usual, somehow that didn't go well with me, they should kept him as a gorilla ... a primate of unusual size
So, there you go. Watch the movie if you want something light that touches on a lot of things (action, adventure, horror, drama, comedy), but don't expect anything but average on all accounts. Though I did enjoy John C. Reilly's performance, he gets an A.
All the actors did alright, it's just the movie was pretty blah.