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50 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoKong: Skull Island is a grand cinematic adventure powered by furry fury, as the horrors of war blend with chest-beating creature confidence.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThis highly entertaining return of one of the cinema's most enduring giant beasts moves like crazy — the film feels more like 90 minutes than two hours — and achieves an ideal balance between wild action, throwaway humor, genre refreshment and, perhaps most impressively, a nonchalant awareness of its own modest importance in the bigger scheme of things.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinA large part of the enjoyment comes down to the sheer earth-shaking lunacy of Kong’s daily grind, even before the human intruders are factored in.
- 70Village VoiceBilge EbiriVillage VoiceBilge EbiriIn the struggle between sober subtext and monster-movie goofiness, the goofiness mostly wins out.
- 65TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeIt lacks neither fun nor polish, but it has the square tidiness of a compartmentalized fast-food meal.
- 60ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerThis is a creature feature, plain and simple — and, at least on a visceral level, a satisfying one.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfFor all its updated bluster, this update still can’t escape the shadow of 1933’s magical King Kong.
- 60EmpireJonathan PileEmpireJonathan PileKing Kong lives! But only just. This is an uneven adventure that’s saved by the spectacle of its towering title character and the various beasts with whom he shares his island home.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis fantastically muddled and exasperatingly dull quasi-update of the King Kong story looks like a zestless mashup of Jurassic Park, Apocalypse Now and a few exotic visual borrowings from Miss Saigon. It gets nowhere near the elemental power of the original King Kong or indeed Peter Jackson’s game remake; it’s something Ed Wood Jr might have made with a trillion dollars to do what he liked if he’d been given a trillion dollars – but minus the fun.