Kong Skull Island is actually not as bad as I thought it would be, but it was still pretty bad.

Rating: 4/10 (10 April 2017)

It's kinda what happens when a studio wants to make a Marvel movie that wants to be better than a Marvel movie (on the complete opposite end of what DC is doing). The movie isn't all bad. There were some action scenes I liked. The cinematography was mostly decent. That's about it really. It's very cluttered and jumpy. Half the time it wants to be a fun B-movie, the other half wants to be a big budget action blockbuster. Also the first 20 minutes are criminally boring and muddled. Nobody gives a good performance cuz no one has any direction or characterization. This movie is the definition of excess. The color palette 90% of the time is orange or yellow which gets very tiring on the eyes fast. The effects are OK (mostly) but there's always so much CG on screen it starts to look artificial (also the one night scene has worse green-screen sky than a laptop screensaver). The editing is probably the worst part of the movie since it's so sporadic and nonsensical that it actually hurts what decent visuals are on screen. The skull crawler designs were also pretty lazy and dull. And it ended pretty anti-climactically with us not even seeing the humans leave the island. But there were some mildly entertaining action set pieces so I have no problem if you enjoyed it. Side Note: this movie is so graphic and bloody for a PG-13 that it might as well have been rated R.