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- 2017
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
Summary When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man.
Directed By: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
- 2017
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 58 m
Kong: Skull Island
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6.8
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Summary When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man.
Directed By: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
62
58% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
38% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
62
58% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
38% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Any movie with the sense, the wit and the visual instincts to introduce Kong the way this one does is fine with me.
Kong: Skull Island is a grand cinematic adventure powered by furry fury, as the horrors of war blend with chest-beating creature confidence.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 873 User Ratings
6.8
63% Positive
552 Ratings
552 Ratings
28% Mixed
247 Ratings
247 Ratings
8% Negative
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 873 User Ratings
6.8
63% Positive
552 Ratings
552 Ratings
28% Mixed
247 Ratings
247 Ratings
8% Negative
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
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This movie is also amazing, now imagine a game where you control this giant animal 10x bigger than the 2005 character
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The monsters are brilliantly designed and skillfully animated (except for a few shots where Kong looks a tad cartoony), and the army of visual and sound effects artists convince you that that these CGI titans live and breathe and weigh hundreds of tons.
Skull Island circles around a number of intriguing ideas—about American arrogance and the post-war military-industrial complex, to name just two—but never quite coheres into anything particularly incisive. The movie gives good Kong though.
Derivative and a little dumb but consistently fun: there’s personality and panache to spare in this monster blockbuster.
On the whole, though, Kong: Skull Island is great big dumb fun. It’s also shockingly beautiful to look at when you aren’t having creature guts flung into the camera.
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.
As a fan of the big monster films since I was a kid in the 70’s, I have to say this movie is EASILY the best King Kong movie ever made. It has a real story, great characters, amazing action, thrilling suspense and the best effects I’ve seen in this genre. I always loved Godzilla more than King Kong, but even after seeing the new Godzilla vs. Kong movie, I have to say Skull Island stands alone at the top still. The new Godzilla movies (including Godzilla vs Kong) spend too much time with dialogue between ultimately meaningless characters. Skull Island has characters that you care about, that you hate, that you can identify with. The story is really cool, set during the Vietnam war with iconic music, weapons and choppers. Imagine a King Kong movie with a backdrop of Black Sabbath, Hollies, and Creedance tunes. It just WORKS.
I had hoped the Godzilla vs Kong movie would utilize this same type of formula, with authentic characters, weapons, fighter planes, and MUSIC from a time period. Instead the makers went with the same formula from the other Godzilla movies which is weird characters who say a whole lot but none of it really matters. If you see one movie from this Monster Series, see Skull Island.
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In anticipation of Godzilla vs Kong, I've decided to rewatch all the previous Monsterverse movies. I was curious about how they were going to reboot Kong and bring him to the Godzilla universe since King Kong the original was a pretty conclusive story. The premise is "Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they venture into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery soon becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape from a primal world where humanity does not belong". So is Kong a great reboot or a piece of banana peel?
Firstly, the visuals and cinematography by Larry Fong are gorgeous. Some stunning shots are proper eye candy. Due to the location of where they filmed, we also got some interesting environments to look at as well compared to the grey dull city from Godzilla (2014). The cinematographer and director perfectly capture the Vietnam War-style and incorporates it into a monster movie. It sounds like it shouldn't work but it does mesh well. Additionally, there is a very talented cast in this movie including Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, John Goodman, John C. Reilly and more. All of them give great performances with props to Samuel L Jackson for striking the right craziness that fits the movie.
I also really enjoyed the design of Skull Island which looks beautiful but lies a lot of scary stuff. The monster designs all look brilliant from the giant Spider to the giant Moose and the scary Skull crawlers. I also really enjoyed the action scenes including the ones that are just the humans. They are all fun to watch but the Kong scenes are the most exhilarating. Kong: Skull Island also goes in a drastically different tone compared to Godzilla (2014) by being way more over the top and comedic. It's fine and there are some funny moments in there.
However, there are too many characters in this movie. It's obvious most of them are expendable but the movie spends a fair amount of time on these expendables characters which feel like padding for time. It also feels like it is taking screen time from the leading main characters. Furthermore, it doesn't even take the time to fully delve into our leading characters, James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) and Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), motives or backstories. There is a later part where these characters make what is an important decision but you don't get why they decide to do it or the weight behind the decision because we the audience barely know anything about them. On top of that, all the supporting characters are very one-dimensional so there ain't any interesting characters whatsoever. Loads of characters die and the movie tries to portray this in a serious and meaningful, but it comes off as ironically funny. For example, one character chooses to delay the monster with other characters screaming for them to not do it but he then dies hilariously. The movie also goes at an incredibly fast pace and never really takes a moment to breathe some life into Kong and the human characters. It just goes from point A to B and then it's over. This can be fine if the things that occurred had good dialogue but it doesn't. There is a lot of dialogue that adds nothing to the plot and just feels like more padding to get the runtime closer to 2 hours. For example, some characters give real cryptic statements like "Sometimes the enemy doesn’t exist until you go looking for them". Yeah, that sounds cool and all but what does that have to do with Kong punching a giant lizard? It's just wasteful dialogue.
Overall, Kong Skull Island is silly but very entertaining. It's nowhere near as good as the original King Kong but it certainly works as a serviceable popcorn movie. If Kong ever gets another solo outing then hopefully they utilize Kong's connection with humans more as that is an advantage he has over Godzilla for a more compelling story.
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Visual effects are dope, the product placement is trash. . . . . . . . Visual effects are dope, the product placement is trash. . . . . . . . Visual effects are dope, the product placement is trash. . . . . . . .
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I don't understand why this movie got positive reviews from critics.Sure,this movie has some good moments,but overall the cgi looks like cgi,the characters are bland as well as the cast,the plot is formulaic and the soundtrack didn't even match with film.This film is no where near as good as the Peter Jackson version(3/10)
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Production Company
Warner Bros.,
Legendary Entertainment,
Tencent Pictures,
Créa TV
Release Date Mar 10, 2017
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Awaken the King
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 4 Nominations
