Watched the new Kong film this afternoon.

On the whole – worth going to the cinema for. The realisation of the great ape was greatly impressive, and, in particular, the astonishing middle section fight sequence raises the bar for any who come after.

But the ‘creepy crawly’ section was horrific and redundant – would belong better in a higher rated film than this (in the cinema I was sat next to a 10? year old girl taken there by her father – not sure I would want a ten year old child of mine watching men being eaten alive by maggots…)

It was also at least half an hour too long, had some serious plot lacunae (what happened to the villagers?) and a bathetic ending.

So – good to very good; not great.