The film that creates a hole in your skull as big as an island.

Rating: 1/10 (1 August 2017)

The fact that many people rated this film more than 1 star baffles me. Actually, no, it worries me.
This film has it all: a never-ending list of plot holes, a lineup of dialogues so awful it makes your brain scream with despair, 2D characters so poorly conceived no one cares what happens to them and unoriginal monsters so badly imagined that the island seems to be populated by rejects from Peter Jackson's King Kong. Furthermore, it is overloaded with useless clichés and the CGI is at times terrible.
It is not fun, not cool and not smart. In short, it is an insult to the average person's intelligence.
Some examples of blatant inconsistencies : 1. In the beginning, we learn that Landsat satellites have imaged the island from above and we even see these images. Yet none of the massive man-made structures are spotted by the imaging specialists - no massive wall seen, no villages spotted, no agricultural areas detected, no giant huts revealed, etc... Makes you wonder why did they bother taking pictures if they're not going to actually examine them in detail.
2. Five or six helicopters are seen taking off from a big shipping vessel (some in unrealistic locations such as the back of the bridge), yet when they arrive at the island, there have multiplied and we now have almost ten helicopters. Does the director believe that we can't even count anymore?
3. Let's fly ALL the helicopters in tight formation through the mother of all storms shaking them in all manners (with no one getting wet/sick/hurt) while the captain of the shipping vessel (inherently more stable than a helicopter) refuses point blank to get close to the storm for safety reasons.
4. Let's land on one end of the unexplored island and decide that the pickup point is located at the other end of the island in three days time. This makes no rational sense whatsoever.
5. The 'science' team lands and sets up instruments to track the seismic activity. Instead of looking around amazed at the unexplored and virgin ecosystem, the female biologist decides to watch the screens showing the seismic activity, which the geologist is already actively monitoring. No wild plants to investigate? No animals to observe through binoculars? No no.... let's just waste precious time (3 days remember) to duplicate work that is irrelevant to her own field of work.
6. As the helicopters fly inside the island dropping bombs, a giant ape, Kong, arrives on the scene and destroys some of them that pass close to it. Instead of breaking formation and regrouping at a location that doesn't include the hostile primate, the helicopters decide to continuously fly at arm's length of Kong which leads of course to their inevitable destruction.
7. The ecology on this island is unrealistic: A giant spider with legs that look like bamboo and impales people? Really? A giant squid that hunts in shallow waters making it easily detected by apex predators like Kong (Btw, why didn't Kong see the squid before sitting in the water since it was so shallow?). The huge buffalo/deer thing should be in a herd like the behavior of most unprotected herbivore species. Yet every time we see one, it is alone.
8. Next to the giant wooden wall (how did the locals build this thing?), the woman photographer sees one of those buffalo/deer things trapped under a crashed helicopter. Does she check if someone in the helicopter is still alive and needs medical attention? No. The buffalo/deer thing is far more important. Are bodies of the poor passengers lying around? No. Then surely the locals must have picked them up. Doesn't seem like it. Where are they? No one cares. Does she check if there are any signs of danger after hearing about what awful monsters lurk on the island (which could be the reason why no human bodies are present)? No. Does she ask the locals to help out? No. They were there just a moment ago as she was teaching them how to pose (!) while she took pictures. And now she is all alone. Where have they all gone? Oh well. She doesn't seem to care so why should we... Does she try alone to push the helicopter trapping the buffalo/deer thing which wasn't strong enough to move it by himself (and is obviously many time more massive than her)? Yes. Unsurprisingly she fails. Does she try again? Absolutely. Does she hear/feel the vibrations of Kong's steps stopping a few meters away from her? No. Kong appearing out of nowhere takes the broken helicopter and frees the trapped animal. He looks at the woman then throws away the helicopter (no need to feel sorry for any wounded passengers still trapped inside) and walks away like a hero in the sunset (a celestial event which by the way appears to occur many times during the day on this island).
And it goes on and on and on... One ridiculous scene after another. I could also give examples of the poor dialogues and awful characters but I have a life. Why would a grown adult want to subject himself/herself to such rubbish is beyond me.
Save yourself some neurons and avoid this film at all costs.