Kong steals the show..

Rating: 5/10 (26 July 2017)

It seriously would have played better without a single-speaking human in it.
Kong:Skull Island isn't a bad little flick, but it isn't great either. Positives include some fresh ideas and spins on traditional Kong themes, and the CGI action with Kong is exceptional. THe negatives are non-stop stupid actions by the characters, a lack of an ending, and a poor script.
When the film tries to be funny it isn't. And the film just follows such a cookie cutter modern-cgi-action template that is growing-old very fast.
You might like this if you liked Warcraft, or the Transformer sequels, or John Carter.
Some stuff stuck out really bad in terms of terrible improbability, and I guess it might be nit-picking if not for the frequency of such actions/scenes. The photographer taking nothing but bad pictures at inopportune times, and no good pictures at perfect times.. the helicopters flying at low-altitude after not one, not two, not three, but 6 or 7 hand been knocked down in quite a long-span of time... all that stuff just ultimately pulls the viewer away, and the script and the lack of scares and comedy do the same.
Those fresh ideas end-up being squandered a bit and the film ends-up being nothing more than a lower-brow version of Nimrod Antal's "Predators". There's not a single-character in this film that gains any steam or likability. The closest is John C. Reilly, who tries his best to save the film, but ultimately fails along with the rest.
I'd pass on this unless you just really like the shallow action- stuff. If so, Kong and the CGI could be worth it, I guess.