Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) by Anthony Lane for New Yorker — 06 Mar 2017
The thing that breaks the back of this movie, and makes the second half so much less prodigious than the first, is a simple matter of geography. Once the combatants are split up and scattered around the island (Packard here, Chapman there, Conrad and Marlow stuck in their own heart of darkness), the story loses focus and even starts to drag.
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This review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) was written by Anthony Lane and published by New Yorker on 06 Mar 2017.
Kong: Skull Island has generally received positive reviews.
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