Renegade Review: Kong Skull Island
Welcome Renegade Nation it’s me Naughty Nicole and it’s time for another Renegade Review. And th...
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March 15, 201720m 1sExplicit
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Welcome Renegade Nation it’s me Naughty Nicole and it’s time for another Renegade Review. And this time around, we’re focusing on a movie I expected to mostly like and ended up well… mostly liking. Now, I acknowledge I’m an easy mark for exactly this type of movie: When a movie opens to lost islands, hidden civilizations and “Hollow Earth Theory,” chances are fairly good I’ll be one of the first in line. Now, if said film also decides to include a giant monster? Well, you better believe, I’m totes on board. So you can imagine how I was salivating like a horny teenage boy getting my first look at boobies when I found out Kong: Skull Island was coming out.
Much like The Lord of the Rings is Fantasy Nerdvana, well; Kong is… that’s right, you guessed it, King of the monster movies. And my tiny, black, dork heart was all a twitter when I found that this wasn’t going to be a repackaging or sequel to 2005’s Peter Jackson attempt (and Mr. Jackson gets a complete pass on that one, because well, Lord Of The Rings) – but this is rather a complete rebooting of the franchise to fill our geeky hearts with its big-ass apey goodness. Now admittedly, when Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla hit the big screens in 2014 the two major complaints were that 1) there wasn’t enough monster action and 2) the human characters barely registered onscreen. And three years later, Kong: Skull Island emerges to correct at least one of these issues outright.
I was very much onboard with Kong: Skull Island – I mean it’s not a great file, but it’s a really good one. Most important of all, it delivers on the premise – it’s well directed, the cast is performing admirably, and it’s clear well before we get to the obligatory post-credits scene that the world-building is seriously lacking, but this movie holds it together for one hell of a creature feature. The movie itself doesn’t drag or rush to cram in too many set pieces, which puts it heads and shoulders above most of the other big FX-drive blockbusters we’ve been prone to lately. And it didn’t hurt any that the theatre I went to had recliner seats and served alcohol. But the film does run into some problems on the human level, but there’s no way to accuse this adventure story of skimping when it came to the awe-inspiring monster battles.
Much like The Lord of the Rings is Fantasy Nerdvana, well; Kong is… that’s right, you guessed it, King of the monster movies. And my tiny, black, dork heart was all a twitter when I found that this wasn’t going to be a repackaging or sequel to 2005’s Peter Jackson attempt (and Mr. Jackson gets a complete pass on that one, because well, Lord Of The Rings) – but this is rather a complete rebooting of the franchise to fill our geeky hearts with its big-ass apey goodness. Now admittedly, when Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla hit the big screens in 2014 the two major complaints were that 1) there wasn’t enough monster action and 2) the human characters barely registered onscreen. And three years later, Kong: Skull Island emerges to correct at least one of these issues outright.
I was very much onboard with Kong: Skull Island – I mean it’s not a great file, but it’s a really good one. Most important of all, it delivers on the premise – it’s well directed, the cast is performing admirably, and it’s clear well before we get to the obligatory post-credits scene that the world-building is seriously lacking, but this movie holds it together for one hell of a creature feature. The movie itself doesn’t drag or rush to cram in too many set pieces, which puts it heads and shoulders above most of the other big FX-drive blockbusters we’ve been prone to lately. And it didn’t hurt any that the theatre I went to had recliner seats and served alcohol. But the film does run into some problems on the human level, but there’s no way to accuse this adventure story of skimping when it came to the awe-inspiring monster battles.
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