Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 257
Fresh: 215 | Rotten: 42
Peter Jackson's dream project is as good as event movies get; King Kong is visually spectacular and emotionally resonant.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 9
Peter Jackson's dream project is as good as event movies get; King Kong is visually spectacular and emotionally resonant.
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One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action drama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930s, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting wildlife in remote and dangerous jungle lands; despite the objections of his backers, Denham plans to film his next project aboard an ocean vessel en route to Skull Island, an uncharted island he
Dec 14, 2005 Wide
Mar 28, 2006
$218.1M
Universal Pictures
All Critics (257) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (227) | Rotten (43) | DVD (45)
It clocks in at over three hours, but Peter Jackson's remake of the 1933 classic is gripping nonetheless.
It takes a while to get everybody to Skull Island, about 70 minutes, but it's time extremely well-spent.
Kong is a showy, state-of-the-art popcorn movie, faithful to the spirit of the 1933 original but generously adrenalized with the best effects money can buy.
Our response to the ape's doom, once touched by authentic tragedy, is now marked by relief that this wretchedly excessive movie is finally over.
Top CriticKong has heart, and he's willing to show it in a movie made with wit, excitement and moments of visionary beauty.
Jackson took a huge risk with King Kong. But the movie that no film lover wanted him to make is sure to become the blockbuster that everyone is going to want to see, and with good reason.
As it is a remake, it doesn't have the shock Lord Of The Rings possessed upon its release, but this is a beautiful beast of a B-movie, thrilling and touching.
The movie is a good cautionary example of what happens when its maker is too close to the material, who can't see the forest for the trees, the story for the ape.
Fails to match the simple, handmade artistry of the original
With great computer imagery, a fun story, amazing action, and wonderful human drama, it's a very good remake. But Kong 1933 is still King, baby.
Peter Jackson's remake of the 1933 classic is a loving homage that recreates and updates many of the familiar sequences... Unfortunately, the recreation leaves one wondering what, exactly, the point of the film is, other than indulging the director...
Every now and then, an undertaking like Kong comes around, and it underscores the truly extraordinary accomplishment of directing a film.
Kong is not without its flaws, but sometimes you just have to throw your hands up in the air, wave them like you just don't care, scream at the top of your lungs and just go with the rollercoaster ride, that's what this film is.
Boisterous, spectacular remake of 1933 classic.
Overlong by half, hedonistically animated and decadently self-indulgent King Kong is beastly to be sure, but there is little beauty here.
A bit more time in the editing room could've lifted it into great blockbuster territory. instead we've got a sporadically entertaining escapade that never captures our hearts like it so desperately wants too.
I wish Jackson would shake off his addiction to gigantism, his apparent need to punch everything up three times as much as it needs to be.
Mr. Jackson not only improves on the original, he somehow seems to create the film that King Kong was always meant to be.
funny, frightening, romantic, nostalgic, moving and grimly fatalistic, it races along, like its central character, with a speed and grace that utterly belies its great size.
A phenomenal popcorn movie that eclipses the original in several respects, but inevitably owes a huge debt to the powerful imagery and innovation of the 1930s landmark.
By the time the monkey business you're waiting for finally arrives, it's so anti-climactic don't be surprised to find yourself impatient for the famous Empire State Building finale.
I remember seeing adverts for this film,and that it was directed by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), and that I was really excited to see it.After watching King Kong, I was truly shocked of how it was even better than what the adverts had shown. Almost everyone knows the story of King Kong,but this brings back to
November 21, 2011
Super Reviewer
Modern remake of King Kong classic movie. Film makers come to a remote island where they meet King Kong.
May 26, 2007
Super Reviewer
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