Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2017)

Kong: Skull Island (2017) Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel. L. Jackson, John Goodman, John. C. Reilly, Jing Tian, Toby Kebbell, Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell Directed By: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Review ALL HAIL THE KING Almost 12 years ago when I was 8 years old I saw my first Kaiju movie. The Peter Jackson interpretation of the original King Kong, it's probably my favorite three hour movie. But I do love it case in point. Later I saw the original and the second Kaiju film I saw in theaters was Pacific Rim and well you know what was third. After the success of Godzilla 2014 it seems that legendary pictures decided to go ahead and bring the second cinematic universe in film history the monsterverse. In this new iteration of Kong, Bill Randa of Monarch is given the go-ahead to go to Skull Island with a military escort. When they get there however they drop bombs unleashing monsters that killed Kong's family. Kong trashes the planes and destroys most of Colonel Packards men. James Conard teams up with Mason Weaver and a few others who crashed near them and learn about the island and Kong with the help of Hank Marlow who's been stuck on Skull Island since 1944. When they meet up with Colonel Packard and a few of his men they go searching for Jack but with the Skullcrawlers on the surface now it's up to Kong to protect them. This classical b-movie monster goodness. A major complaint fans had with the 2014 Godzilla was that they kept cutting the fights off and he was barley in the movie. You have nothing to worry about here folks when Kong's on screen, he's on screen and it's awesome! People complained that the human characters weren't that interesting but then again they're not boring so... yeah. The actors were great too. There were some silly moments like when Kong's about to eat someone and then it cuts to a guy eating a sandwich. The world of Skull Island is just incredible it was very cool that they shot on location and then in studio for the monster effects. This is by far my favorite iteration of Kong, it was great fun fantastical romp that was classic b-movie monster goodness with epic fights, decent acting and nice shots of the beautiful locations. I'm giving Kong: Skull Island a five out of five.