You get your money's worth!

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2017)

I will admit I was a little skeptical when I first heard about this movie. The whole franchise building thing hasn't worked out well for most studios and frankly the last Godzilla movie was a bit of a dud except for the final act.
So, I went to this movie with a little hope of it being any good. And when the movie started I was surprised!
I don't think most people will appreciate the human characters because we are not in the theatre to see them, and Tom Hiddleston's English accent is a little distracting. I also didn't know why a Oscar winning actress would want to play a character so thinly written. She is there just so there can be a girl among all the guys. She held her own though, with what she had been given.
But let just get to the good part, the hero of this movie is the cinematographer. The scale presented in this movie was outstanding. There is scene where Sam L Jackson is looking at Kong and the camera goes behind his head just to show the difference in scale and size. Each frame was brilliant, the helicopter shots were awesome, and the King fight scenes were better that that of Godzilla!
In the end, I had a lot of fun with this one...the movie was funny and commanding. The run time could have been shorter but King Kong beating the hell out of "stuff" made up for it!