Don't listen to the negative reviews

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

After his success with the Lord of the Rings, Jackson (like Martin with his endless Game of thrones books) needs to hire an editor. I'm also thinking his success with LOTR was a fluke since his version of this and the Hobbit, both suck. This is miscast, overlong and overdone. By the time the crew reaches Skull Island in this, the original, superior movie is OVER. Not every movie has to be three hours long. Also, if it's the middle of January, how is the heroine running around in NYC in a shift? He tried and failed to make a classic. STOP REMAKES!

Although I was looking forward to Peter Jackson doing The Hobbit after the Lord of the Rings trilogy, this seemed like an interesting surprise. Not only do we get an update of the 1933 classic, we also get a more savage (and scarier) Skull Island. Plus an all-new cast and updated special effects. It's good for those of you who haven't seen the original but want to try something in the giant monster department. It's not as good as the original but it's one of the better remakes. Most remakes aren't that great (take the debacles that were Godzilla 1998 and Tim Burton's The Planet of the Apes) but this is one of those rare exceptions. Some say that the cast lacked chemistry but I think they succeeded. And the extended edition really worked with additional scenes. I heard the late Fay Wray (who played the original Ann Darrow) was going to have a cameo somewhere but she died before they could film it. But if you enjoy Peter Jackson's films and want to see massive creatures duking it out and lots of critters against humans, this is your ticket.

He is much taller than the people ... A delightful, beautiful and very interesting film. Everything looks the same in one breath. Eyes every second enjoys the picture and everything on the screen, the rumor rejoices in a global explosion of sound, the brain absorbs a familiar scenario, the heart knocks after every step and roar, and at the end of this whole great idea, you are satisfied, upset, and in love. I am pleased with what I saw not long ago, this is really the greatest adventure in cinema, from which emotions, chaotic walk in front of the screen, causing to experience all actions together with those who really deserve this experience. I was upset when I saw that people were free to try on the shell of the animal, and the animal, on the contrary, tried to throw it off.Of course, there was an excuse for the American residents, they say, the times of great depression, millions of unemployed, poor and sick, but it immediately disappeared after it became clear that this is an excuse, probably would have occurred to them and they would. I fell in love with a huge monster, in his facial expressions, actions, experiences, and against his background, I completely overlooked the game of excellent actors who, under the pressure of my interest, lost in the nines to the computer animal as soon as it appeared on the screen.This is a wonderful film, and all the fireworks of graphics, drive, and sounds, so competently add each other that under the influence of an equally impressive, albeit familiar scenario, the picture really acquires a keen interest, which is difficult to tear off, even under such a load of time 3 hours. It really takes time, but it really is worth it. The animal that loses in the face of happy people is actually higher than all of them, and the people are demonstratively down to the very beginning, when everything was decided by force. A very good phrase says about his colleague the character Endrian Brody. "... he has a very amazing quality, he destroys everything that he begins to love ...", I think in our time, this phrase refers to a part of humanity whose love has an artificial concept and has an exclusively self-serving purpose.10 of 10

I don't understand the heroine desperately wanting to run away from king kong causing the loss of many human lives then wanting to return back to it!