Would have been better with more beasts

Rating: 9/10 (30 July 2017)

I don't take the time to review a lot of movies, but I did this one because it was really good, I thought. For what it was, you have to go in with the expectations that this is a King Kong movie. A read several negative reviewers who seems to somehow miss this. Like they thought they were going to a beer tasting event and were all surprised when it wasn't whiskey.
What I liked the most about this, was that there were several encounters with "Kong" sized beasts. My only complaint there would be that I would like to have seen more.
I thought the battle scenes were great. Regardless of the reason that brought them to the island, it's all really secondary. This is a movie about a giant gorilla. While the surrounding story matters some, it's little. People who actually want to see a King Kong movie, are interesting in the anomaly and mystique of a giant gorilla and other animals who far surpass their natural / normal size, and what it would be like to experience that. I thought this movie really delivered visually on that, and again the fight scenes were very entertaining.
SPOILER: The King Kong in this movie is kind towards humans (unless they are trying to kill him), and I think this is solved by the fact they are similar in design (primarily bipedal, arms, legs, etc), which he finds something about that worth protecting. I really would have liked to have seen Kong locate others still alive, with which he would reproduce. There is not evidence that is the case in this one, since all his family was killed. Perhaps room for another movie since the island was not explored fully.
The thing that made the least sense, you might say, is how this "skull crawler" was relatively easy for Kong, considering his various handicaps at times, yet this "big one" was supposedly responsible for killing all the other giant gorillas? I'm not sure how that was supposed to work or why they were so easily overpowered to have killed all of them. That made the story not make a lot of sense to me, in a logical way.