Kong: Skull Island

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I saw this last night and really enjoyed it. An 'action adventure'.
Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman ...

In 1944, in the midst of World War II, two fighter pilots – American pilot Hank Marlow and Japanese pilot Gunpei Ikari – parachute onto an island in the South Pacific after a dogfight and engage in close combat, but the fight is interrupted by a behemoth ape.

Twenty-nine years later, in 1973, U.S. government agent Bill Randa hires former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad, a skilled tracker, to guide an expedition to map out a recently discovered island known as Skull Island.
Their military escort is the Sky Devils, a Vietnam War helicopter squadron led by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard and his subordinates, Major Jack Chapman and Captain Earl Cole.

The group is joined by pacifist photojournalist Mason Weaver, who believes the expedition is a secret military operation.
Upon arrival at Skull Island, Packard's men begin dropping explosives developed by seismologist Houston Brooks to map out the island.
However, the air unit is attacked by the same ape from 1944, who kills a number of military personnel and scatters the survivors across the island.

More at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong:_Skull_Island