Great trailer

Rating: 4/10 (15 November 2019)

They made a great trailer. Shame about the movie.
'Kong skull island' does seem to me at least to be better than the other two currently extant films in the monsterverse: the underdone 'Godzilla' and the overwrought 'Godzilla king of the monsters'.....how its monster conceivably fits with the same cinematic universe as the monsters depicted in those two films is a stark question that the next film in the sequence will be detailed to answer.
As a sci-fi/fantasy adventure monster film this has enough cool set piece silly season monster violence to make a fine trailer but the paucity of supporting quality from any facet of the film leaves it threadbare at feature film length. Unless you are attached to a certain era of American Vietnam anti-war films beyond rational sane levels.
Definitely don't take any human characters or behaviours or situations or interactions to heart.....which is a shame because that's exactly what those vaunted aforementioned American movies that this film intensively references were trying at.
As a King Kong movie (which is probably an unfair, even invalid way of evaluating it in all honesty.) it is superficial and lacking in a full sense of humanity in the representation of Kong even when bringing into the equation the complete skeletal remains of both Kong's parents and a flashback (noble) death scenario.
As the second part of the putative monsterverse it kinda opens questions that might give 2020's 'Godzilla vs Kong' a lot of problems......but if the film makers involved in charting this franchise have good answers to these questions.....it might make for a better film than this or either of the Godzilla prep fight films.
Overall I rate this a watchable 4/10 and I would rather watch this than either of the Godzilla instalments because I think that this film at least develops a style in it's visual storytelling that gives it a more memorable distinctiveness. That's worth a star more in my ratings than either of Godzilla's efforts!