Kong: Skull Island was my most anticipated movie in the first quarter 2017. And while it won’t be up for any end-of-year honors and won’t end up on my year’s top ten list, I found Kong: Skull Island to be a very engaging, exciting, and, if possible, original. While it wasn’t perfect, this movie was fantastic. As excited as I was to see it when I initially saw the trailer, I wasn’t feeling it the day of my viewing. Even with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 79%, I still felt like I would be disappointed. Since seeing it in the theater, I haven’t watched the most recent King Kong movie (the 2005 one starring Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody). I remember liking it a lot. But I don’t remember many of the details. I do remember it being extremely long. It honestly felt like it should have been two movies, which is why I haven’t watched it since, even though there has been a copy of the DVD on my bookshelf for the last decade.