Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)

[Grouchy]

Agreed that the dialogue was awful at times (in that trying-too-hard-to-be-clever way) and the characters sketchy, but once the monsters showed up, I just had a giant stupid grin in my face the whole time. The action was really spectacular, the cinematography and the creature design top notch. Vogt really made a huge jump from an independent feature like Kings of Summer to full scale extravaganza with this. Reilly gave a memorable turn, stealing every scene he was in. It's not a 100% solid film, but it delivers on its promise of good, gory fun, something which its predecessor Godzilla failed spectacularly to provide.