Another Case of Big Budget Gives You Small Quality

Rating: 3/10 (7 September 2017)

The opening act of Kong Skull Island stated off strong with a well imagined 1973 with a scientific mystery reluctantly green lighted for an odd government agent with scientist in tow that recruits an intrepid explorer and a Colonel yearning for war. The movie jarred me from reality when 5 helicopters dispatched for exploration transforms into an invasion force. I tried to get back into the story yet could not as 1. King Kong was shifting in size at points and always too large for him to relate to humans 2. The indigenous people seemed intriguing yet treated as nothing more than furniture even by a guy who had spent 28 years with them 3. the Colonel turning into a vengeful psycho was not plausible and 4. the real evil monsters struck me as unreal cartoons. I wanted to like this movie as I have liked previous King Kong flicks. What could had been a very good daunting tension filled quest with great fleshed out characters became just a video game.