Kong: Skull Island's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
A large part of the enjoyment comes down to the sheer earth-shaking lunacy of Kong's daily grind, even before the human intruders are factored in.
The Hollywood Reporter
This highly entertaining return of one of the cinema's most enduring giant beasts moves like crazy - the film feels more like 90 minutes than two hours - and achieves an ideal balance between wild action, throwaway humor, genre refreshment (...).
Entertainment Weekly
Hiddleston and Larson are especially let down by the script, which wants to be jokey in the way that something like Predator was, but can't pull it off.
The Wrap
It lacks neither fun nor polish, but it has the square tidiness of a compartmentalized fast-food meal.
Empire
King Kong lives! But only just. This is an uneven adventure that's saved by the spectacle of its towering title character and the various beasts with whom he shares his island home.
Screen Crush
This is a creature feature, plain and simple - and, at least on a visceral level, a satisfying one.
Screen Daily
If the film belongs to anyone, it?s creature designer Carlos Huante. Kong is expressive and impressive, both in hair and full-body movement, and his interaction with water, humans, other animals is consistently fluid.
Time Out
For all its updated bluster, this update still can't escape the shadow of 1933's magical King Kong.
Indiewire
Kong: Skull Island may include some clever period details and idiosyncratic asides, but it's largely a blockbuster B-movie less interested in depth than scale.
The Guardian
This fantastically muddled and exasperatingly dull quasi-update of the King Kong story looks like a zestless mashup of Jurassic Park, Apocalypse Now and a few exotic visual borrowings from Miss Saigon.