Kong: Skull Island - 21 WTF Moments

18. Toby Kebbell's Accent

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Fair play to Toby Kebbell, despite making some of the most unwatchable movies of the past few years in Wrath Of The Titans, Fantastic Four, Warcraft and Ben-Hur, he still gets cast in major projects. And all of this despite the fact that his ability to convincing do - and hold - an American accent is on the same level as his ability to make Doctor Doom a good character.

It's absolutely all over the shop, which might be why he appears to start the film as a main character and is then brutally sidelined and turned into a walking, talking "when I get out of here, Ima make things right with my son" cliche.

All in all, his Jack Chapman is a pretty terrible character, included solely as an emotional heart-string-puller, and a narrative device Packard can use to guide his men on a White Whale hunt.

Still, he doesn't about 200% more for the plot than Jing Tian, who might be the most cynical attempt to cash in on Chinese market dollars ever seen in a blockbuster.

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