
Kong: Skull Island · Film Review King Kong goes to war in the Vietnam-themed monster mash Skull Island · Movie Review · The A.V. Club
Against a bright orange sun, a giant gorilla towers in silhouette, helicopters buzzing around his head like angry insects. It’s as if that artist who paints monsters onto thrift-store paintings got his hands on the Apocalypse Now poster. Airlift out this most striking and revealing image, however, and Kong: Skull Island would still announce its subtext with all the subtlety of,…