Very enjoyable action adventure creature feature.

Rating: 8/10 (20 April 2020)

One of my favourite pop corn movies of the last few years.
This is a very easy watch with a great cast, impressive special effects and a surprisingly dark tone in places with some gory and gross moments.
The action scenes look amazing and are highly stylised using bright colors, smoke and explosions to great effect and the monsters look awesome especially Kong. You can see individual hairs on his body and wrinkles on his leathery palms, it's very cool. Apparently the monster designs were influenced by Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke and i can actually see that.
You'd be silly going in to this expecting an Oscar winning tour de force like There Will Be Blood, this a high octane action adventure movie with massive monsters bashing the hell out of eachother. There isn't much character development but everyone still provides a decent performance especially Samuel L Jackson as a hard as nails and pretty unlikeable US army Lieutenant Colonel who needs war to survive. John C. Reilly is also a joy to watch.
There's a lot of small moments and details which you might not see first time round as well and i like that.
It's a fun time, go see this movie.