rather disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2017)

Kong: Skull Island has nothing beneath the surface that a genre film should have, other than the action and large scale scenes there was basically 0 character development and as a huge fan of the Peter Jackson rendition of King Kong I have to say I am disappointed in the outcomes of this film.
Skull Island promised to up the ante and go 'big' with this new and scaled up Kong but the results really isn't that good at all. There was perhaps only 2 scenes in which we get big fights of Kong, which were really good yet as I said 2 only, most of the time the film just attempts to build suspense by not revealing where Kong is 'hiding' which really doesn't make much sense because he is a gigantic gorilla on this one tiny island.
Although most the acting is uninspiring and the characters were generic and predictable, Samuel L Jackson was probably the saving grace of this film playing a relatively interesting and unique character unlike the rest, likes of Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston, a rather shame by the sound of these names.
This film felt lacking both in character development and in fun, large scale monster battles and seems rather like a build up solely for the purpose of pitting Kong against Godzilla in the upcoming feature film. Not much attention was given to this film but for what it's worth this film was simply mediocre and just fine.