Two hours of intense terror!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2017)

What a cracking time I'd yesterday watching this in 3D! Two hours of intense terror, thriller and entertainment that I'm unlikely to forget for some time. What a giant animal, wow! The best visuals that captures how big he's is the one 'he' stands tall with the sun in the background, which's also the poster of this film. A weapon of mass destruction is Kong!
The scene where they fly into Kong's territory with helicopters will go down as amongst the greatest scenes I've ever seen at the big screen. It involves you so much as a viewer that at times it gets to the point of causing you dizziness. Simply unbeatable, the way he crashes, crushes and dismisses helicopters from his presence. I couldn't help but compare that to us humans dismissing flies away from our presence, and I'm sure the thought process behind that particular scene must've been the same for the film-makers.
Samuel Jackson was very good here as the colonel, a role most suited to him and especially his so expressive eyes. The scene where immediately after the aforementioned scene he stands there and, instead of escaping from the destruction, looks Kong into the eyes is an awesome scene. It looked as if we're set for an epic war between the egos of two relentless personalities.
But then the film drifts a bit, but the action remains. Monsters after monsters they come across, which only adds to the excitement, ultimately. Then, when the team stands against the colonel to prevent him from killing Kong, I feared that we're in for a disappointing, action-less ending, but then very intelligently the war re-ignites but against a different but yet another unrelenting creature. So the ending was worth it, especially the unbelievable scene where Kong rescues the girl from the other monster's gut. That was just wow!
The questions asked by that soldier from World War Two, who stayed stranded on the island for 28, provided the much needed comic relief. Some of his questions about the years gone by were really funny, especially the one about the Cold War. "Do they take the summer off?" Hilarious!
Lastly, although I haven't watched the previous King Kong films, but I did watch the one from 2005. I understand the progress made from that time to now in terms of the technology and the equipment available now, but that wasn't my main issue with that film. My problem was with the over three hours of length and the plot itself. King Kong going mad for the girl and wanting to take her with him looked so odd. That was depicted better here, as just the friendship or love that can exist between a human and an animal.
So then, 'Kong: Skull Island' is one of the greatest monsters films that I've watched, giving the Jurassic Park and the Aliens series a good competition. 'aliens' 1986 still wins the race though, any day.