Japan has a certain monopoly on classic city-shredding
monsters, what with the king of monsters Godzilla and his rogue’s gallery well
and truly ingrained in the popular consciousness. But damn it all if the West
doesn’t have its own colossal champion which also represents quite a few
milestones for the art of cinema: The big bad gorilla King Kong. Whether it’s
the ground-breaking effects work of the 1933 original, the years-in-the-making
passion project of Peter Jackson’s 2005 version, to the 1960 introduction
between the beasts in King Kong Vs. Godzilla, the Eighth Wonder of the World
has quite a colourful history. I’ll admit that I’m not as big into giant
monster movies as I probably should be, but I am at least willing to hear it
out… even if the trailers didn’t exactly instil hope for this one. So, as we
delve into the next step in yet another cinematic universe, how does it hold
up? This is Kong: Skull Island.
