In the rousing adventure that is Kong: Skull Island, hard core U.S. soldiers, fresh with bitterness from their losing effort in the Vietnam War (Samuel Jackson, as Lieutenant Packard, plays a bloodthirsty man whose only interests are his own), accompany several scientists, a photographer and some plain old adventurers on a remote island in the South Pacific in 1973. What they find there is - surprise, surprise - a giant gorilla who rules with two large fists and some very otherworldly creatures that resemble hybrids between giant lizards and predatory dinosaurs (if you've seen the trailers, you know what I'm talking about). The movie's tone is definitely lighter and more tongue-in-cheek than Peter Jackson's 2005 version of King Kong, and much of the movie's dry wit can be attributed to John C. Reilly, playing a gray bearded, World War II pilot who accidentally crash landed on Skull Island decades ago, and has since called this inferno-on-Earth his home. There is also Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson, playing cosmetically gifted protagonists who are clearly too talented for this material, but hey, they've got to eat, too. Skull Island may not possess the heart and soul of Jackson's film, but as an action movie set in an exotic locale where characters get picked off like turkeys on Thanksgiving, it's as much fun as anything you're likely to see this spring.
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