Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) by Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian — 02 Mar 2017
This fantastically muddled and exasperatingly dull quasi-update of the King Kong story looks like a zestless mashup of Jurassic Park, Apocalypse Now and a few exotic visual borrowings from Miss Saigon.
It gets nowhere near the elemental power of the original King Kong or indeed Peter Jackson’s game remake; it’s something Ed Wood Jr might have made with a trillion dollars to do what he liked if he’d been given a trillion dollars – but minus the fun.
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This review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) was written by Peter Bradshaw and published by The Guardian on 02 Mar 2017.
Kong: Skull Island has generally received positive reviews.
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