Quit Monkeying Around Kong: On Skull Island

Rating: 3/10 (6 April 2017)

Quit Monkeying Around "Kong: On Skull Island" seems to be comfortable with being pure unneeded-childish fun. The 2017 Action/Adventure film was a letdown to Kong enthusiasts who have followed his legacy since his first appearance in media in 1933. As I got ready to come see this movie, I looked into the Director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who won the Narrative Feature Audience Award. That got my hopes up along with waiting so anxiously to see the next side of Kong. With opening weekend sold 61,015,000 tickets I couldn't wait any longer. I could have waited longer; with good intentions of a back story to Kong's legacy the plot was quick to get to the guns firing and vicious action. I found it very hard to relate to any of the characters throughout its entirety. If you looked closer to the details the movie holds handfuls of factual errors. From the uniforms the soldiers were wearing in the movie. In the 1970's the breast pockets were not sloped. Or when Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) refers to James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) as "Captain" however his collar was bronze and had the oak leaf symbol which was instead rank of Major in the Army. The helicopters in flight during the movie were CH53E Super Stallions didn't begins flight till 1974 and didn't fly in fleet until 1981. These are some, but not all of the little differences that occurred that distract from the movie itself if the audience catches on to the guns in different positions during every cut back to each person. In the words of Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly) "But you don't go into someone's house and start dropping bombs, unless you're picking a fight." Which pretty much grasps this movie as a whole. It was too quick to violence and gun fair there was no inclination of characters moral development as the movie progresses to exploring the uncharted island. There was no change in character development in any advance to keep the audience engaged in more than the dropping of overly exaggerated destructive bombs. This movie was the movie to see if one was looking for what to do in a sandbox near you.