Kong : Skull Island delivers the thrills

Rating: 7/10 (12 March 2017)

"Kong: Skull Island" delivers a lot of thrills, but not much more than that. Working from a screenplay by Dan Gilroy ("Nightcrawler"), Derek Connolly ("Jurassic World") and Max Borenstein, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts ("The Kings of Summer") keeps things moving as he updates the old-fashioned adventure flick. Better yet (and unlike Jackson's film), the new movie understands the line between thrilling an audience and scaring it silly — between action-adventure awe and horror-movie gross-outs. The action and special effects are mostly first-rate and Vogt-Roberts maintains a vaguely satiric tone that sidesteps schlockiness.
My Rating : 3.5/5