Kong still has an eye for the ladies

Rating: 5/10 (10 August 2017)

This King Kong story has the big guy never leaving Skull Island. But with Brie Larson along the big guy still has an eye for the ladies though he never becomes obsessed like he was with Fay Wray.
It's the end of the Vietnam War, but John Goodman who's a Frank Buck type hunter and explorer with some Capitol Hill influence has gotten the government to underwrite an expedition to a newly discovered uncharted island. He's even gotten the cooperation of the government in this endeavor. An airborne squadron of paratroopers headed by Colonel Samuel L. Jackson are to give him support. These troops ain't real happy as their going stateside is being delayed.
This island has all kinds of strange monsters, prehistoric hunter/gatherers. and a big ape who watches over the people and the walled stockade they've built to prevent them from being the lunch special for the monsters. They will need all that military firepower to stay alive and as you can gather very few make it out alive.
One thing though, this ain't Jurassic Park where a lot of plant eating dinosaurs are around. Everybody here is a flesh eater. No wonder that vegetation is so lush and so treacherous.
Kong: Skull Island I suspect will get a nomination or two in the technical categories next year. It's your old fashioned action/adventure saga where everyone looks like they're having a good time making it. The acting sure shows it.