Kong: Skull Island: The King of Apes Is Back

On Saturday I settled in to a movie theater once again, this time to watch 'Kong: Skull Island' with my girlfriend and a good friend of ours. It delivered up a hair-raising, action filled epic featuring King Kong making his return to the big screen, with a well-rounded cast and a story that is sure to set-up other classic giant movie monsters returning as well.

With a backdrop of 1973 at the end of the Vietnam War, Tom Hiddleston plays one of the principal roles, James Conrad a former British Special Air Service Captain who joins up with William Randa (John Goodman) and his research team alongside United States Army Lt. Col. Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), and joined by his multi-casted military squadron of troops, set out for the aptly named Skull Island, being drawn into a land of horrors and death, all the while dealing with the realization that they, the human race, are not alone on the planet, when confronted again and again by Kong.

The special effects for 'Kong: Skull Island' are out of this world! Kong is so real, his movements and everything about him, one would actually expect him to suddenly reach a massive paw out through the screen to grab at audiences. And the special effects for the other inhabitants of Skull Island, well lets just say it will surprise, shock and awe you movie-lovers, and that's all you are going to get out of this review.

If like me, you are a fan of King Kong and other movie monsters, and all their various films, then this is one movie you are going to want to see in theaters. 'Kong: Skull Island' is a fine comeback for Kong, and with characters like the ones played by Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson, each installment that comes out after this one will only serve to build upon the world that is laid out before us, and just adds another notch on the wide belt of accomplishments that are the other King Kong movies that have come out over the years.