@JpSuperGuy said:

This makes Peter Jackson's king Kong look like an absolute masterpiece...not as bad as the newest star trek, this movie gets a half star...

Really dude? It was no masterpiece but it was the quintessential popcorn movie. It had some silly parts but the cinematography, the monster fights, and the payoff with John C. Reilly at the end made it worth watching for me. This was more entertaining and more to the point than Jackson's Kong and that Godzilla-less Godzilla movie from a few years ago.

And the last Star Trek movie was tons of fun despite its underwritten villain. Gods of Egypt it was not.

This is a legitimate question for the OP- what exactly were you expecting?

You don't know nothing about exciting action/adventure.

almost every character falls flat. The only two with anything to do are sam jackson and john c reilly. I haven't seen a movie in a while where the main actors are as wooden and have literally nothing to contribute as the two leads in this. Kong looked great, but he was just as wooden. It was fun and some of the action scenes were filmed creatively, but it was not a good movie. The ending was a let down and the build up of to the monster skull crusher being the main reason why. Peter Jackson's King Kong has some issues, but it was ambitious and had an epic feel to it with much better characters including Kong himself.

exciting action/adventure is fine and has been done a lot better than this.

How similar is it to the original 30s Kong?

Everything that Rtodd110 said is on point...Sam Jackson charchter had a potentially good backstory with his army unit, but that was terribly developed. The soldiers were written to be dimwits who were readily taken out in the first chopper sequence. a poorly written sequence. Kong had absolutely no personality compared to Peter Jackson's version. other than one scene with kong, brie and Tom it was emotionless. Speaking of Brie & Tom, they were given nothing to work with. John Reilly was the only "character" in the movie that ya cared about. But his role was comedic relief mostly. He final fight with kong and the monster was laughable. Kong being thrown into a rusted out shipwreck, and ends up chained down? I understand that when studios spend money on cgi, they spend less on writing...but at only 2 hours long, this was terrible.

Kong was "wooden"? Are you insane? I agree that a lot of the characters seemed pointless, but come on man, that's not why people went to this monster movie.

I think a reasonable point to be made was that the creature side of the movie was great, but the human side of the movie was lacking

It was an old fashioned monster/adventure movie. That's what I wanted and I liked it.

I'm worried about this movie but I really enjoyed the last Star Trek! So this might be ok in the end! :)

I thought it was ok, but I found the story to be repetitive.

Crazy conspiracy theorist guy turns out to be right and then dies? check. Giant monster turns out to be the hero? check. There's another giant monster that is the actual villain? check. Someone mentions that earth doesn't belong to humans? check. Someone suggests letting the giant hero monster fight the giant bad monster? check. The military has a plan to kill the hero giant monster but it goes awry and they instead let the hero monster defeat the bad monster? check. Someone's trying to get home to their family and succeeds in the end? check.

I enjoyed the movie. It didnt bore me unlike Peter Jackon's movie (taking Kong to New York for example). I am also glad Kong didnt fall in love with the girl.

@PK9 said:

I thought it was ok, but I found the story to be repetitive.

Crazy conspiracy theorist guy turns out to be right and then dies? check. Giant monster turns out to be the hero? check. There's another giant monster that is the actual villain? check. Someone mentions that earth doesn't belong to humans? check. Someone suggests letting the giant hero monster fight the giant bad monster? check. The military has a plan to kill the hero giant monster but it goes awry and they instead let the hero monster defeat the bad monster? check. Someone's trying to get home to their family and succeeds in the end? check.

This is a remake, check.

@PK9 said:

I thought it was ok, but I found the story to be repetitive.

Crazy conspiracy theorist guy turns out to be right and then dies? check. Giant monster turns out to be the hero? check. There's another giant monster that is the actual villain? check. Someone mentions that earth doesn't belong to humans? check. Someone suggests letting the giant hero monster fight the giant bad monster? check. The military has a plan to kill the hero giant monster but it goes awry and they instead let the hero monster defeat the bad monster? check. Someone's trying to get home to their family and succeeds in the end? check.

Samuel L Jackson being killed? Check.