Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017) by Atxhippie — 12 Mar 2017

Lots of excellent special effects, although there were a few non-sequiturs that made you go, What??? At times I felt like I was watching a Star Trek movie wherein there seemed to be an inexplicably endless supply of the doomed guys in the red shirts.

John C. Reilly was hilarious. I liked Hiddleston's performance. About 50% of the time Tom Hiddleston & Brie Larson seemed to be in two different movies. To be fair, Brie's part did not have a lot of meat to it.

Smiling, crying, looking tough & determined, taking photographs. There was an English 101 superficial smattering of references to Joseph Conrad's great novel, "Heart of Darkness." The military leader played by Samuel L.

Jackson had a lot of Kurtz, or even Captain Ahab, in him. The character was way over to top. Multiple movie genres were mashed together: Vietnam pullout movie, Kong movie, Jurassic Park, Apocalypse Now, & so on.

You must watch all the way through the credits and beyond to see the sequel hints: Mothra & the Hydra may be on the horizon. So the Japanese and the Greek mythology are pulled in at the end. The actors playing the military guys were fun to watch.

So this movie was fun, but had too many random elements and dumb, illogical plot drivers.