kong skull island movie 2017 official poster

Even if the movie doesn’t know how to have fun at its own expense. This all makes for a rollicking fun action flick where, when it isn’t trying to be serious with political references, manages to have a good bit of fun. And then there’s Packard’s group, with Packard zeroing in on Kong with an “Ahab”-like intensity. Two groups begin to emerge, Conrad and Weaver’s group, where they believe that Kong isn’t such a bad primate after all and just deserves to be left alone. Jackson’s famous expletive once, I enjoyed the nice tension that Kong created. Since Kong so solidly makes such a great first impression with the humans, it’s not long before we learn Packard’s bent: destroy Kong, at all costs, before Kong destroys everything else.įor a movie where I didn’t hear Samuel L. Thirty minutes into the film’s run-time, we are treated to an epic scene of Kong playing basketball with a bunch of army helicopters. And the monster film aspect does not disappoint, either. No Academy-award-winning acting or writing, just actors having fun being in a monster film. If you want something light, and just feel like turning your brain off and enjoying a movie. Kong: Skull Island is pretty much everything a person could want out of a monster film. Marlow has survived all this time on Skull Island with a mute group of mysterious tribals. Later, they are joined by Marlow, played by the delightful ham John C. Rounding out the group are Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), an anti-war photographer, and a handful of soldiers and scientists. The group is led by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. This is the same island where Marlow and Ikari disappeared. He hires Conrad with the purpose of guiding a mission to map out Skull Island, the only name the island is known by. In 1973, as the Vietnam war draws to a close for the U.S., a government agent by the name of Bill Randa (John Goodman, Atomic Blonde, Red State) hires British Special Forces Air Captain James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston).

Kong skull island movie 2017 official poster