Genuine hate-essay

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2017)

I haven't despised a film this much for a long, LONG time. First of all; Brie Larson didn't need to be there, other than to so sympathy and empathy for Kong. She plays a photographer, who will not be able to publish her photos, because it's a a top-secret government mission and also John Goodman's character (who only speaks exposition throughout the film), has a camera, so she wasn't needed, AT ALL.
The directorial choices are SO WEIRD it hurts. One time they show a guy getting dropped into Kong's mouth and then stupidly cut to a guy eating a sandwich and then later show a guy actually get eaten. Those weird "camera on top of a gun"-scenes are so unnecessary.
The characters were very clichéd and their choices were idiotic. Shea Whigham's character's proposed "sacrifice/Come and get me"- scene is stupid in an another level.
Samuel L. Jackson's character I kind of understand (he doesn't want to think the war is lost and that they conceded and he wants to prove himself) but his scenes are ridiculous and he seems typecast (I mean he says "Hold to your butts" in one scene. Just. No.)
Tom Hiddleston and others are just there and Hiddleston is their leader. (That's about it. The Japanese character barely has any lines and I can't remember what was her role, I guess she was Corey Hawkins' assistant oslt and all the others are just stereotypes)
John C. Reilly is probably the most compelling character in the film and literally only who has an arc (Younger version of his character is shown landing to the island in flashbacks) but when he leaves the tribe, he's lived for nearly 30 years, it's literally just; "Well, I guess this is goodbye... Bye!" That was pretty... well stupid and bland. I mean, the last scene of the film (not counting the after- credit scene) is Reilly returning to his family and having a hot dog, BECAUSE THAT HAD MORE DEVELOPMENT THAN Oscar WINNER BRIE LARSON AND TOM HIDDLESTON!
The good stuff (I guess) is the special effects and motion capture for Kong (though the constant size changes are hair-ripping, I mean that Kong's hand in the mountain in one scene is as big as half of Kong in all the other scenes), that one scene at the tribe where they visually show Kong's story via paintings, the gory stuff was cool also (although it makes the tone feel more messy, which is annoying, but I respect the studio for having balls by making this PG-13 rated blockbuster be this graphic) + the fight scenes with Kong and monsters were okay and the designs for them were good.