The newest Kong reboot is a rock ’em sock ’em popcorn monster movie flick, featuring the biggest Hollywood ape to date. At a little over 31 metres (OK, 100 feet), Skull Island’s towering Kong makes Peter Jackson’s version from 2005 look like Donkey Kong. Directed by relative unknown Jordan Vogt-Roberts (his 2013 feature debut The Kings of Summer was a sweet coming-of-age tale), Skull Island opens with a dramatic (and dramatically important) prologue in 1944, before moving the action forward to 1973. At least we know it’s possible to survive more than a few hours on Skull Island, although not all the new arrivals will be so lucky. (As in other iterations of the Kong myth, the big ape isn’t the only scary thing on Skull Island.)

Source: National Post March 09, 2017 18:33 UTC