Looked gorgeous a lot of the time (despite even some non-vfx shots still having a CG sheen over them), some cool LOST-style set-up, great creature design (especially the move away from Jackson's 'normal gorilla but bigger' towards the more monstrous version of the original) and a fair few great action sequences. However, the narrative is almost as slight as that of Jurassic Park 3 (and that film's sat-phone gag is even remixed!), all of the characters are archetypes at best, redshirts at worst, and the dialogue is painfully bad throughout.
Rating: Good
EDIT: on a rewatch, I'd knock this down to Okayish. I think this benefited from low expectations and feeling a lot more fun when placed next to Edwards' Godzilla and Jackson's King Kong, but actually it's a lot more shallow and cartoonish than those without any good dialogue or characters or structure to back it up.
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