Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) by Forcedlife — 02 Apr 2021

Kong: Skull Island is one of those movies you watch when you don't want anything serious. Thankfully, this movie understands what it is, and doesn't try to be anything else, I just wish it tried a bit more in every aspect that wasn't Kong himself.

Kong is a blast whenever he is on screen, his massive presence and sheer power are wonderful to watch unfold on screen. Watching the human characters get picked off gradually by the islands prehistoric and fantasy creatures will be sure to put a smile on your face. However, that's where my praise ends.

Although succeeding in what it needs to, the human characters are insanely hollow and have no development or meaning for them to be personalized by the movies given titles such as "Photographer" or "War Veteran". The main hero characters could easily be killed off and at best I will raise an eyebrow or two, other than that, I could not care less about them.

Their on screen enjoyment derives from the island's nature to kill as many of them as it can, and as for Kong, his character is portrayed through the visual storytelling it needs to, just enough to make him likeable and understandable as a Kaiju needs to be.