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Garth Edwards’ monster reboot made a point to foreground its human characters, which made the movie particularly controversial among genre aficionados. In some ways, Kong: Skull Island feels very much like a conscious response to Godzilla. The camera and the cuts are always moving towards the monster, with the characters serving to deliver thematic dialogue and look suitably moody as seventies music plays over montage sequences. Vogt-Roberts’ direction might seem hyperactive and over-caffeinated, but it understands this. For all its flaws, Kong: Skull Island never over-estimates how interesting its human characters are, mostly treating them as a vehicle to get to the promised monster mash. Jackson are forced to hold on for dear life. Veteran performers like John Goodman and Samuel L.

Reilly seem suitably eccentric as the obligatory insane exposition character. Brie Larson probably does the best job of any of the major players, although the rapid-fire editing helps John C. Tom Hiddleston seems quite lost for most of the film. Most of the players in Kong: Skull Island seem to have more trouble finding a consistent character throughline than mythical monsters. This approach does no favours to the cast.