孔：头骨岛opened this weekend with$61 million，这是一个受人尊敬的春季开幕式，但远远不足Godzilla’2014年的9300万新元。Godzilla,and the second entry into Warner Brothers’ budding monster-centric cinematic universe, so slightly deflated numbers aren’t the best sign in the world (read: diminishing returns). But Kong is doing better overseas and, most importantly for universe-building, it played better to kids (A CinemaScore among young’uns, compared to a B+ from adults). So Warner Brothers will call this a win even though Kong isn’t likely to crack $200 million domestically.
Kongfeels like a slight improvement onGodzilla- 我说，作为哥斯拉的粉丝，它管理着同样的生物谱，但以更明亮的光线射击，这更令人愉悦，并且即使只有一点，也可以改善人类角色。在Godzilla,the people are a drag, boring except for Bryan Cranston, and totally uninteresting. InKong,many of the people are boring but a few are unintentionally hilarious and one is very intentionally funny. With that burst of humor—intended and otherwise—Kongis surprisingly enjoyable.
The movie kicks off in the final days of the Vietnam War, as Bill Randa (John Goodman) begs a senator (Richard Jenkins in a cameo) for One Last Chance to prove his theory that monsters are real. Randa is joined by a young geologist, Brooks (Corey Hawkins，直截了当的康普顿), who subscribes to theHollow Earth theoryas an explanation for where Randa’s monsters live. Randa and Brooks work for Monarch, the mysterious company fromGodzilla, but no one really cares about that. Get to the monsters! ButKonginsists on making us take interest in the people.
For the most part, that doesn’t go very well. Goodman and Samuel L. Jackson are old pros who can make any garbage work, andKongisn’t actually garbage, so they fare well enough here. Jackson, especially, gets it done as the Army colonel who leads the expedition to Skull Island. He’s obviously not ready for the war to end and decides to pick a fight with a gorilla the size of a small mountain which is an insane piece of story logic and Jackson plays it just right, nailing the sweet spot between straight-faced acting and “motherf*cking snakes”表演。没有人真正让Shea Whigham和Toby Kebbell在“战争电影”的一边演奏太多，而没有足够的“ Creature功能”，而Thomas Mann和Jason Mitchell只能到达那里。（尤其是曼恩（Mann）有一个本能，可以在荒谬的角度发挥作用，但他似乎并不完全信任它。）
But then we get to the unintentionally hilarious pair played byTom HiddlestonandBrie Larson. She plays Weaver, a photojournalist who never bothers tying her hair back despite needing unimpeded vision to do her job, and who sticks her bare hands in photo acid and diddles them around like that sh*t doesn’t burn. (I still have chemical burn scars from art school. I gasped out loud when she did that.) She also takes black and white photos of an aurora borealis. Give that a second to sink in, if you must.
Hiddleston plays Land Pirate, an Errol Flynn-ish dashing type who is good at whatever he needs to be good at and is introduced beating up guys in a Saigon bar he was hustling at pool. Credit where it’s due:Kongresists romantically involving Weaver and Land Pirate. But the MVP is John C. Reilly as Marlow, who was stranded on Skull Island after crash-landing there in World War II. Reilly 100% understands the movie he’s in and every bit of Kong that works that doesn’t involve monsters works because of Reilly.
But the monsters are the real stars here. The creature design is pretty great. Kong, yes, of course, he looks cool. But Skull Island is full of monsters, including enormous daddy long leg spiders, huge water buffaloes, and the lizard-like “skull crawlers” that are Kong’s real enemy on the island. The climactic battle between Kong and the chief crawler is pretty sweet, especially as a tease of the possibilities of what a Kong/Godzilla fight could look like (Godzilla vs. Kongis on tap for 2020). Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer) knows how to compose a shot and he loadsKong具有高于平均水平的图像。他参考现代启示录an awful lot, but between the clarity of his action sequences—including a slick “pass through” shot that lines up the geography of Kong’s initial attack on the helicopters—and vividness of his eye, he ought to be in blockbuster work as long as he so desires.
These monster movies have an issue with making their human characters as compelling as their monsters. They’ve certainly got there with the monsters, as Kong is frightening and sympathetic in turns, and a little better humanized than Godzilla. But they’ve got to get the people up to snuff. If they commit to making everyone either as absurd as Weaver and Land Pirate or as intentionally funny as Marlow, they could hit the winning formula.
这是汤姆·希德勒斯顿（Tom Hiddleston）和布里·拉尔森（Brie Larson）今天到达东京。
