"Apepocalypse Now"

Rating: 4/10 (9 July 2017)

Man, I was willing to like this movie. The most recent "Godzilla" was a big surprise merely by being competent, and went beyond that to actually interesting.
But now we have "Kong: Skull Island," which might become the poster child for "elevator pitches you should never greenlight." In this case, it had to have been "It's Apocalypse Now...with giant MONSTERS!"
And they say Hollywood is out of ideas.
All that being said, there are parts of the film that are excellent (Hiddleston, for all his pretty boyness was fairly convincing, as were Thomas Mann and Shea Willingham)...up until the moment when the creative barrenness in which this was conceived rises up to strangle logic or intelligence in the characters. The ubiquitous Samuel L. Jackson shows in, in a part that is more of a mood than an actual character.
Might not be bad to have on the tube while you're cleaning the catbox. Other than that...not very impressive.