Great Popcorn flick

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2017)

"Kong; Skull Island" was a very entertaining popcorn movie; it kept my interest throughout, and never really slowed down much. I thought it was a good idea to place it in the time frame of the 1970's. Kong the ape was front and center and King Kong really was a king this time. The story was a good one--in another movie John C. Reilly's Robinson Curuso-type character would have stolen the show. But in this one each of the actors share screen time almost equally. The sound track features snippets of some of the best rock music ever recorded, and I liked the references to "Heart of Darkness" and the influences of Francis Ford Coppolla's "Apocalypse Now".