97.
KONG
Skull Island
8/10
A team of scientists travel to explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, leading them into Kong's kingdom, where they must fight for survival and escape.
This was a completely different story to what we got given in the past King Kong films that I have seen. This is mainly down to where they are hoping to go with the storyline in the future, although, it wasn't through lack of trying to kill Kong rather than the conventional capture that we have come to expect. With not giving too much of the storyline away as spoilers, it was an interesting idea as to why Kong was on the island and how the inhabitants there, interacted with him. He was a guardian of sorts, keeping the actual evil at bay. There was no usual dual with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but giant lizard type creatures that dwelled below the ground.
Whilst Kong takes out half of the army that was taken for, what was thought to be a routine mission, Samuel L Jackson's character takes it personal and demands that Kong be killed, turning into more of a villain as the story progresses. He was up to his usual acting tricks, where he clearly thinks that he needs to shout twice as loud as anyone else, just to be heard, even when he's the only one with any dialogue.
There were slight 'nods' to the original stories as beauty and the beast have their moments, Kong saving Brie Larson's character from drowning at the end. The scene in the past of him being chained up on stage, became him being helplessly tangled in the chains of boat anchors, until he ripped himself free. One of the other iconic moments would be as he would break the T-Rex's jaw, but this time it only became a nearly moment, which worked as it's own.
The rest of the movie was interestingly colourful at times, with the use of paint, whether it be on the villagers, or walls and there were slow motion shots of Hiddleston wielding a sword and every cut would produce purple blood filling the already green gas in the air. The film was a lot more gory than I had imagined, which was brilliant as people were ripped apart, Kong pulling the lizards insides out through their mouths and all this was complimented with some classic rock songs.
I wasn't too sure with the casting of Hiddleston thought as he blew people away as the slimey Loki role, but being a more tough guy, taking no shit, didn't really seem to impress. He wasn't convincing with a gun in his hand but his chemistry between turning into the saviour and role with Brie did actually work.
The after credits scene was pretty important as to where they want to go next. With this movie set at the end of the war in Vietnam, there are many years to go for the story to catch up with the Godzilla film recently brought out. It was stated that Kong wasn't fully grown so I wonder how much he will grow to be able to tackle the fight with Godzilla himself.
Overall I really enjoyed this movie and really look forward to where the franchise of giant monsters will go next, with Godzilla 2 and then onto the rumoured fight! Let's hope it continues to improve and we see more Godzilla on screen than we did last time.
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