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A grand, nutty and visually splendid Kong: Skull Island
The king of Kong: Skull Island is an ape who just wants to protect the humans in his threatened domain
THE PRODUCER DINO DE LAURENTIIS, a loopy genius who knew a thing or two about big-screen great apes, once said of his own 1976 King Kong star, “When the monkey die, people gonna cry.” Fortunately, the monkey in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ exhilarating and pleasingly strange fantasy-adventure Kong: Skull Island doesn’t suffer the same fate. Instead, this Kong looms large as a protector of the weak and a steward of the natural world
TIME 03/20/17
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