Kong: Skull Island (2017)

In brief, the newest "Kong" is a nostalgic. But, surprisingly, that's not about an older "Kong"...

We have an island, we have the expedition, we have the blonde, we have the gorilla, but still the story is a new one (or I don't know all the old ones). The US government decides near the end of the Vietnam war to fund investigating a remote island in the South Pacific, an isolated ecosystem, which I guy who nobody believes claims it's populated with something... big, for which we need a military escort. And like that, we're gathering the dream team, and we fly with a choppers squadron, with a direct reference to "Apocalypse Now", towards the great unknown. Where Kong, troubled by the noisy guests, reduces them by half, leaving the other half to find a way out... But there is more than Kong on the island.

There are lots of references in this movie. It made me think on "Kelly's Heroes" looking at the army bunch, or on "Moby Dick" looking at the obsession of the one who leads it, or on "Indiana Jones" (I don't know why...), or on others. And it's nice. It's not a copy of any of these. And as I was saying it's not even a copy of another Kong: the purpose is not to capture the monkey. It's a survival movie who made me think mostly on "Jurassic Park". And if you've seen "Jurassic Park" in cinema when you were little, you know the feeling ;)... One more thing: the camera work is gorgeus. Too bad that the ending is I don't know... a bit too dry...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5