Welcome To Movie Recall. In Today's video, we will be going through the 2017 sci-fi monster
movie : Kong: Skull Island. It's Time To Recall.
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In the year 1944, somewhere over the South Pacific, Lieutenant Hank Marlow lands with his
parachute on an island after his plane crashes. Another soldier, Gunpei Ikari, lands. Marlow
draws his gun on Ikari and shoots but misses. Ikari takes out his gun and chases after Marlow.
They run into the forest and fight when they go by a cliff. Ikari nearly impales Marlow
with his sword, but Marlow pulls it away. Ikari then has Marlow on the ground and nearly kills
him before a gigantic ape hand appears. The two men then see the ape rise above them.
In 1973, in Washington D.C., government official Bill Randa and geologist Houston Brooks arrive to
meet with Senator Willis to receive funding for an expedition to a recently discovered location
called Skull Island. Willis isn't too keen on the idea, but Randa goads him into relenting.
Before leaving, Randa tells Willis he also would like a military escort.
The Sky Devils squadron are gathered on their last day before they can finally go home.
Led by Colonel Preston Packard, they include Captain Earl Cole, Slivko,
Reles, Glenn Mills, and Jack Chapman, who is Packard's right hand man.
Packard receives the call for the expedition and gladly accepts the job.
Randa and Brooks go to a bar and find a former British Special Air Service captain named James
Conrad to be their tracker. Conrad is confronted by two bar patrons who believe he cheated in a
game of pool, but he easily subdues the men. Randa is immediately impressed, telling Brooks they've
found their guide. Conrad sits with Randa and Brooks to hear their plan. When he hears their
offer, he demands more money and points out that there's a good chance that the trip will
get them killed for reasons involving severe weather conditions or predatory creatures.
Inside a darkroom, anti-war photographer Mason Weaver is developing some photos she took of
the conflict in Vietnam. She gets a call to join the expedition and she arrives at the
base to meet with Packard and his men, plus a team of scientists from the company Landsat,
including Brooks' fellow geologist San Lin and Landsat employees Victor Nieves and Steve.
Weaver has reservations about the mission and thinks the military is planning something bad.
Brooks goes over the mission and what they hope to find on Skull Island.
The team sails into the ocean before taking choppers to the island. They must pass through
clouds that produce hurricane-like conditions but are able to find a high-pressure pocket that they
believe will be a safer route. After a turbulent ride through the storm, the choppers fly across
the area. Weaver takes some pictures while the soldiers begin dropping seismic charges
into the ground, setting off explosions. Almost immediately, a tree is thrown through one of the
choppers, sending it crashing to the ground. The team then sees Kong towering over them. He sends
another tree through a chopper before grabbing a few more and smashing them into the ground.
The surviving team members are separated once they hit the ground.
Amidst the flames burning from the remains of the choppers, Packard stares up at Kong,
who looks down back at him. Packard confronts Randa at gunpoint and
demands to know what really brought them there. Randa admits that he had known about the existence
of monsters like Kong for a while, and he is seeking proof for his organization, Monarch.
Conrad, Weaver, Brooks, Lin, Slivko, and Nieves are grouped together while Randa, Packard, Mills,
Cole, and other soldiers set out to look for Chapman, as he is equipped with enough ammunition
that Packard intends to use against Kong. As the soldiers walk through a bamboo forest,
one soldier suddenly stops, a bamboo tree has impaled him through the mouth.
Above them is a giant spider that starts attacking them. Mills is pulled up by the webbing,
and the rest of the soldiers start cutting its legs off. Mills cuts himself loose,
and Packard shoots the spider to death. Chapman is by himself near a river. He sees
Kong walking through the river to tend to a wound he sustained from the choppers' gunfire.
Kong drinks from the river and then finds a giant octopus. He tangles with it,
fighting off its tentacles before he starts to eat it. He then drags the octopus carcass away.
Conrad's group is cornered by a tribe of natives. As they try to defend themselves,
out comes an older Marlow. He assures both groups that they are not harmful to each other and then
invites the group past the wall. Marlow explains to the group that he's been there for the last
28 years and has learned a lot about the natives and the island itself. Kong is like a god to them,
as he has been protecting them from the creatures that dwell beneath the earth and have been killing
off the natives for centuries, as well as Kong's own family. Marlow calls them "Skull Crawlers".
They stayed underground until the explosions from the seismic charges woke them up. If anything
happens to Kong, the Skull Crawlers will dominate the island. He also suggests that the Skull
Crawlers that have come to the surface are just juveniles and that a much larger one exists.
Still alone, Chapman walks through the forest and sits on a log.
The log turns out to be a giant insect. Chapman shoots at it, but the creature does not retaliate.
As the creature leaves, Chapman is killed by a Skull Crawler.
Along the way, Weaver sees a huge water buffalo stuck under a crashed chopper. She
tries lifting it up to free the buffalo, only for Kong to show up and pull the chopper off.
He stares down at Weaver briefly and leaves. She appears more awed by him than terrified.
Conrad tells Marlow that they plan to make it to their rendezvous point
on the north side of the island within three days so that they may be rescued.
Marlow says that it cannot be done in three days on foot, so he agrees to guide them the right way.
He bids the natives farewell and takes the crew on a boat.
Shortly after riding away, Nieves is snatched up by carnivorous birds and is torn apart midair.
Marlow leads the group into The Forbidden Zone, which is a former battleground between Kong's
ancestors and the Skull Crawlers. The enormous remains of Kong's family lie among the field.
A Skull Crawler appears, forcing the group to hide.
The Skull Crawler then spits out Chapman's skull and dog tags, which Conrad notices.
Randa is taking pictures and is then snatched up and eaten by a Skull Crawler.
Another beast shows up and starts to attack and pull victims in with its tongue.
The groups continue their battle with the Skull Crawlers plus a wave of the carnivorous birds.
Marlow takes out the sword that belonged to Ikari and slashes through several of the birds before
handing it over to Conrad. Weaver kills one by tossing a lighter into a hole that produces fumes,
which is ignited and sets the creature on fire. After the fight, they regroup. Packard is still
set on looking for Chapman. Conrad shows Packard Chapman's dog tags to confirm his demise. Still,
Packard wants to look for Chapman's ammunition stash so that they can kill Kong; he is hellbent
on revenge for the deaths of his men, despite the objections of Marlow, Conrad, and Weaver.
That night, Packard gathers explosives and lays a trap for Kong. Meanwhile, Conrad and Weaver
encounter the beast, but Weaver approaches him cautiously. She places her hand on his face and
he is gentle. However, Packard lures Kong toward him and ignites the fuel along the water, singeing
and burning Kong's fur. Kong stomps on Steve and kills another man in the chaos before collapsing.
Packard then gets ready to set off some explosives, but Conrad and Weaver try to stop him.
They convince the other soldiers that they need Kong to keep the Skull Crawlers out.
The soldiers turn on Packard, who remains defiant.
Just then, the biggest Skull Crawler bursts out of the ground, forcing the group to run. Packard
stays behind to detonate the explosives, but Kong crushes him under his fist.
The survivors then head toward the shore as the main Skull Crawler pursues them.
Cole stays behind to sacrifice himself with the explosive devices he has strapped to himself.
However, the monster tail-whips Cole into a wall and he blows up anyway.
The Skull Crawler heads toward the group until Kong returns and smashes into the beast.
Weaver takes a flare gun and hits the Skull Crawler in the face with it.
Kong grabs the Skull Crawler and hurls him into the wall, accidentally knocking Weaver into the
river. Kong uses a ship's propeller attached to a length of anchor chain to wound the beast,
finally slashing it on the throat. The beast isn't dead and attacks again.
Kong pulls Weaver out and still fights the Skull Crawler. He rams his fist down the monster's
throat and pulls out its guts. Kong then places Weaver down next to Conrad before leaving.
Shortly after, the survivors depart on the boat, and three choppers show up to get them.
In the distance, Kong keeps a lookout to continue protecting his territory.
He pounds his fist and lets out a roar. As the credits begin, we see video footage
of Marlow finally returning home to Chicago where he sees his wife again
and finally meets his adult son. He then sits down to watch a Cubs game with a hot dog and a beer.
After the credits, Conrad and Weaver are being held in an interrogation room by Monarch. Entering
the room are Brooks and Lin, who tell the two that Kong was never the only monster out there and that
this world did not always belong to humankind. Brooks pulls out some files, including a map of
Tokyo, before putting on a slideshow. The slides show another crew coming across cave drawings of
other monsters - Mothra, King Ghidorah, Rodan and Godzilla himself. The last thing we hear are the
combined roars of Kong and Godzilla. Thanks for watching.
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