By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Corey Hawkins, John Ortiz, Toby Kebbell, Tian Jing, Thomas Mann, Jason Mitchell, Shea Whigham, Richard Jenkins and John C. Reilly.
Rating: Very Good.
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts brings “Kong: Skull Island” an adventure film and reboot to the “King Kong”franchise that is entertaining from beginning to end.
Set after The Vietnam War, the movie tells the story of government agent Bill Randa (John Goodman) and geologist Houston Brooks (Corey Hawkins) recruiting a group of professionals to seek the whereabouts of Skull Island.
The group will be conformed by former British Captain James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), The Colonel of the United States Army Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) and The Photojournalist and Peace Activist Mason Weaver (Briel Larson).
Once the group is in the island, they will realize that they are in the territoryof the legendary gorilla Kong.
In the expedition they will encounter with the eccentric lieutenant Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly) who since World War II has been trapped in Skull Island and will help the crew to leave Skull Island and survive before it´s too late.
“Kong: Skull Island” is a movie that besides being entertaining is very well made and very well written.
The screenplay written by Dan Gilroy, Max Bornstein and Derek Connolly, which most notable works are movies like “Nightcrawler”, which Gilroy also directed, Godzilla and Jurassic World respectively . The three wrote a very fun and entertaining screenplay with very interesting characters and I loved the fact that they did it after The Vietnam War and the setup and tone of the film is one of the major brands of the film and works.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts directing is very well made and he made very good technical choices since there were very good camera movements and angles during the film.
In a movie like this normally not many people care about the acting but there were very good characters like the John C. Reilly one, which in my opinion givers the best performance of the film and when he appears during the second act the movie the movie begins to be even more enjoyable.
All the characters were very well written and you can understand all the conflicts that each and every single one of the characters have during the film.
Yes, the movie was predictable by moments but honestly it doesn´t affect a single thing since it´s pure entertainment.
The use of CGI of this film and the visual effects are impressive and both the battles scenes and fights where Kong is involved against a group of monsters are impressive and the use of sound and imagery was neither fake or cheap and the post production department did a really good and impressive job.
The editing was fantastic and it was very fast paced. The movie is almost two hours long but they go pretty fast.
So far I have been very impressed of the quality of the blockbuster films that have been realeased this year. First it was “Logan” which like I mentioned before not only is one of the best X-Men films but it´s a movie with a heart and a great story.
Here with “Kong: Skull Island” it was no different and the story was very well told and I say that is one of the movies of the “King Kong” franchise that I have enjoyed the most.
The way how the filmmakers used the events of history like World War II, The Vietnam War, The Kennedy Days on the White House and others it was very well used and look pretty original.
You can tell that the writers made a lot of research of the themes I just mentioned and it really paid off.
“Kong: Skull Island” is pure entertainment and I can guarantee you that you will be satisfied once you leave the theater of this movie.