Entertaining but lacking

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2017)

I must say that I feel this movie lacks a bit of consistency, it starts with a decent story but then it just goes down leaving a bunch of questions unanswered and some plot holes.
While you can see the effort in developing Kong and the crawlers,every other creature in the island is just there to fill the huge void in the plot.The guys at legendary pictures apparently heard how everyone complained about "to much plot and not enough Godzilla" in their last monster movie production and turned this into something similar to a "transformers movie", it's full of visuals but the story is lacking and some characters have no motivation or logic in their actions.
I can't say it's a bad movie, but it's a wasted opportunity to expand the lore of the franchise, you will exit the cinema feeling that something was not there.
It is obvious they are trying to turn this into a profitable franchise, but when you give priority to visuals instead of plot, you end up with movies like "Alice in Wonderland" and it's sequel, or any of the recent "Transformers" movies, pretty to look at, but completely forgettable, and doing that to a character like King Kong feels just wrong.
However,I would like to see more monsters movies in the future, and Kong skull island was enjoyable and a fresh take to a character that's been around for over 80 years, you probably won't become a fan of "kaiju" movies watching it, but let's hope next installments in the franchise are better.