I didn't expect much yet I'm still let down

Rating: 3/10 (13 May 2020)

The movie is super bad, and it has no real redeeming quality. Maybe photography (?). But like literally the rest of it's aspect are super bad, even for somebody who just wants to watch a movie where a big monkey fights against big stuff and/or humans, or for a movie where big stuff/monkey terrorizes and kills humans (I was expecting the last one but it's not even able to achieve that). There's a lot of nonsensical stuff happening all around, that leaves you wondering when did it happen. There's a lot of unnecessary drama that the slow motion simply makes it even worse. Uninteresting characters which have a slight hint of where they are going, but they don't have enough development to actually get somewhere (a few super bad jokes, the typical "awkward" scene that now movies love to have but really just appear in the worst moments). Special effects aren't all that good really (not bad, but not amazing). There's not even enough killing/terrorizing! pretty much all the deaths are of people you barely see nor remember their names, the ones that are supposed to be relevant characters have funny/dumb deaths that end up being for nothing, which only deepens how irrelevant they where because of how bland they were! They show some natives of skull island but since they try so hard to make them all serious and respectable they leave them just as objects with a face that stares at the camera. I think the writers also try to make a statement about unnecessary wars and/or US imperialism but its sustained on like two or three lines and a few bad scenes, so even that is lost. Along with all of that the movie is super long so it makes you wonder where did all that time go inside the movie. Overall, a super bad movie by all standards, it tries so hard to be so serious but it's just plain bad.