The Director Peter Jackson of this film really had the very best hit in the box office.
The opening sequence sets the quality — a mixture of Depression New York that skips from perfectly realized CG cityscapes to portraits of the homeless. It’s here that we find our heroine, the actress-waif Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts).
In the first 40 minutes we can’t expect thrilling/enchanting action from watts. Though most of us feel little tired initially, later the director really makes people stuck to their seats
Once they hit Skull Island everything changes. Jackson picks up his own movie and rotates it wildly into an animal anger of action — one that simply refuses to stop. There are killer zombies, Creepy- Crawly creatures, gunfights, random executions, and human gives up aplenty.
The most of the scenes of this film are blended with graphics, it is very hard sometimes to find out the difference. Especially when the Kong holds watts (heroine) in its hand, it makes us feel that the real ape get trained to do so.
The real star here is Kong. This Kong is incredible evidence to the power of cutting edge hyper-realism. Yet the real genius here is not in the realization of Kong’s rushing walk / expressive features but in his simple scripted character.
The Kong acted too much. The relentless hunt and hitting back the t-rex’s scene really makes the people thrill forever. Instead, the moments that stay with you are the quiet ones: beauty and her doomed beast, just hanging around and enjoying the view.
Finally, Kong makes his entrance, and he’s worth. Jackson’s team has created a marvelously expressive, threatening and tragic animal (Kong). In a film stuffed with superb performances - Watts, in its particular, is wonderful. It’s the monkey who earns the Oscar. The production money that spends for this film has had real value. Even though the film packed up with flashy scenes, by overall it is visually stunning.