Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) by Globalnomad — 27 Jul 2017
Lots better than the last Kong burger-biggie in 2005, which was so overloaded with gimmicky CGI spiders and bumble bees that we and a friend of ours literally nodded off in the theater. In Skull Island at least we get a well-paced delivery of monster jump-shocks.
And at least there's no damsel in distress. Now that's original. Would have earned three stars if big monkey muscles could have crushed Samuel L's "Independence Day"-like shopworn soliloquys and Trumpy slogans.
Those had the opposite effect intended, sending our sensibilities to bummer town. Set in 1973, it tries too hard to look and sound like "Apocalypse Now" but fails miserably. Looks like a movie by committee: "Okay, the studio says we need 15% Apocalypse Now helicopter music, 15% A.
N. visuals and another 15% Robert Duval-ish sound bites that we hope will be remembered as much as "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Sorry, nothing doing.
This review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) was written by Globalnomad on 27 Jul 2017.
Kong: Skull Island has generally received positive reviews.
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