I ended up with mixed feelings.

Rating: 7/10 (12 April 2017)

Loved Kong ever since I had the book when I was a kid. But the movie is enjoyable enough for sure because it's action-packed from start to finish.
Love Kong, he is a lot bigger and he stand more like a human. It kinda makes him more like a super ape than the 2005 version where he is an average ape but bigger and stronger. The action is great, the helicopter scene and the fights. Just the ridiculous sword scene was not needed at all. This is not the matrix universe. A little over the top.
Now the biggest thing this version missed out on, was a real connection between Kong and the girl. It is included in the movie and no there is no scream what makes him connect to her. And if I recall correctly a connection of 10 seconds. The 2005 version does that way better but in a lengthy run time. It was better to just leave it out completely and just put it in a follow up because Kong is growing this is just a teenage Kong. Or was it just teenage love at first sight, that could be it!
The acting was not great. John C Reily did the best job and was not even the main character, but he did have the deepest story line of all characters. Also Compton was represented. The lines of the soldiers where not funny. Was it intended to be funny? It wasn't. The acting was a bit to scripted.
The movie could do better with some better lines. But it's full of action and it delivers a different Kong movie!