Best / worst of Hollywood

Rating: 3/10 (25 July 2017)

This movie is at the same time the best and the worst of what the Hollywood can offer to movie enthusiasts. Because it is a cinematic syphilis on steroids

And here is a list of main reasons for the negative labeling:

weak dialogues
among around dozen of characters, the female ones were reduced to only two, who exchange with each other around the same amount of sentences (two)
main female character most of her time on the screen is shown wearing a body top (but for some perverse reason in a gray color instead of the standard horny white)
stereotypical Angry Black Man, played by no other than Samuel L. Jackson
comedy relief delivered by comedic actor who is so funny, that you smile as much as two times; almost
setting the story in specific time of mankind history and then ignoring it by showing usage of advanced computers, not available for something like the next 20 years
untrained soldiers and / or nonprofessionals using at easy all kind of machine guns and melee weapons
ignoring the laws of physics by for example standing close to a gargantuan fire and not getting burned
a scene after the end credits announcing the sequel
very mediocre music score
PG-13

As for the positives: it had a big budget and you can tell it right away. And yes, it is entertaining to watch palm trees vs. helicopters combat, amplified by a slow down of a song; and yes, the final fight is also impressing. Aside from the graphical artifacts with colors in the 2D version and its issues with sharpness of image, the whole technical side of this movie is at the top. But that is the core problem with this one: that is has no core. It is just a shiny packaging with nothing inside but some explosions and fights mixed with some clichés and with only a tiny pinch of essence

And so, a king size pile of turd in a colorful wrapping paper deserves a 3/10. Although it is a comforting thought, that this reincarnation of King Kong only three months after its premiere has a mere 6.8 rating on the IMDb, while the previous one by Peter Jackson initially had 8.3 but it took a decade to bring it down to a more appropriate 7.2 grade. But still, none of them is much more than a waste of time (and in no way do they deserve at best anything than an average rating of 5/10)