With a King
Kong movie nowadays the issue of whether the giant ape itself can be
convincingly rendered is no longer relevant because of course it can. The
question is – what do you do with a brilliantly realised enormous animal? Peter
Jackson had a fair go at it a while back but his film was overlong and took
half an hour to even set off to sea. Kong
Skull Island is brasher, less arty, certainly more tongue in cheek but
definitely more to the point. Our first sight of Kong is within five minutes of
the start and after half an hour we’ve made landfall on the lost island after getting
through the perpetual storm that surrounds it. This intensity is maintained
throughout with thoughtful reverie kept to bite sized exchanges and no
character safe. Ones you think will obviously make it to the end don’t and vice
versa.
Raaarrghhhhh
Spoilers will bite your head off after this point!
