If the director made a few changes this movie would've been great

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2019)

The Godzilla vs Kong movie is coming up soon, and in anticipation I'm going to review Kong: Skull Island. This movie blew my mind when I first saw it, but watching it recently, it doesn't hold up. It is a movie that could've been great if there weren't so many flaws that could've been fixed easily.
Kong Skull Island has a lot of great actors in the movie. Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly and John Goodman star in this film. They are all good in this movie, but they are so bland characters that you can't really rune for. These characters are just people that run away from kong and that's about it. They are blank slates that aren't interesting at all and even if they have good acting, their blandness makes that trait much weaker. There are some very dumb moments that could've been taken out of the film, and some scenes happen and they don't make much sense in terms of how that scene happened. There is also a lot of obvious cgi in the movie and some scenes look very artificial.
The action sequences in this movie are very entertaining and are a big redeeming factor in this movie. King Kong looks like a beast in this movie and so do all the other monsters in this movie. The best thing I can say about this movie is that it is watchable and disposable. Dan Gilroy wrote the screenplay for this movie with a bunch of less talented writers, and if it was just Dan Gilroy writing the screenplay for this movie, I'd be okay with that. Middle school Austin really liked this movie, but 9th grade Austin thought this movie was just meh. If they just gave the main characters some backstory with some interest, and if the stupid plot points were removed, this film would've been way more entertaining. I'd give this movie a 5/10.