Kong: Skull Island
In 1973, Samuel L Jackson, Tom Hiddlestone, Brie Larson, John Goodman and a few others go on an expedition to the mysterious "Skull Island". Pretty quickly shit starts going down involving a giant ape.
I'm quite inebriated right now but I'm quite happy to rattle through this. This is almost a total mess of a film. None of the characters motivations are adequately explained, in particular Jackson's character who seems to have a largely illogical Captain Ahab style lust for revenge. John C Reilly shows up later on and appears to have been parachuted in from an entirely different movie. But his character does at least provide the occasional moment of comic relief. The allusions to Vietnam are clunky and heavy handed and the majority of the dialogue is god awful dreck like "Nobody really comes back from war, do they?".
I went to see this with my friend Dasha who not unreasonably pointed out that if you're going to see a film like this it needs to be viewed on a big screen. There are some decent setpieces and Kong is certainly the best thing in the film. The closing sequence is genuinely thrilling and while not worth the price of admission, elevates the film from being completely irredeemable.
Basically, I thought I'd give the "massive monster disaster movie" genre one more crack after being very underwhelmed by Godzilla in 2014. This film manages to be even worse. A post-credit scene teases the forthcoming amalgam of the two franchises which threatens to bring about the worst movie of the 21st Century. The swift mass exodus of a large Saturday night crowd at the Vue in Finchley Road told the whole story.
I'm quite inebriated right now but I'm quite happy to rattle through this. This is almost a total mess of a film. None of the characters motivations are adequately explained, in particular Jackson's character who seems to have a largely illogical Captain Ahab style lust for revenge. John C Reilly shows up later on and appears to have been parachuted in from an entirely different movie. But his character does at least provide the occasional moment of comic relief. The allusions to Vietnam are clunky and heavy handed and the majority of the dialogue is god awful dreck like "Nobody really comes back from war, do they?".
I went to see this with my friend Dasha who not unreasonably pointed out that if you're going to see a film like this it needs to be viewed on a big screen. There are some decent setpieces and Kong is certainly the best thing in the film. The closing sequence is genuinely thrilling and while not worth the price of admission, elevates the film from being completely irredeemable.
Basically, I thought I'd give the "massive monster disaster movie" genre one more crack after being very underwhelmed by Godzilla in 2014. This film manages to be even worse. A post-credit scene teases the forthcoming amalgam of the two franchises which threatens to bring about the worst movie of the 21st Century. The swift mass exodus of a large Saturday night crowd at the Vue in Finchley Road told the whole story.
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