King Kong Reviews
Top CriticIt clocks in at over three hours, but Peter Jackson's remake of the 1933 classic is gripping nonetheless.
Film4
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Crazed
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Hollywood.com
Every now and then, an undertaking like Kong comes around, and it underscores the truly extraordinary accomplishment of directing a film.
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| Original Score: 5/5
It takes a while to get everybody to Skull Island, about 70 minutes, but it's time extremely well-spent.
Eclipse Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: A
Dark Horizons
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.
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.
eFilmCritic.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Big Picture Big Sound
Mr. Jackson not only improves on the original, he somehow seems to create the film that King Kong was always meant to be.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Eye for Film
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Film Journal International
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.
Christianity Today
Naomi Watts distinguishes herself in a luminous, star-making turn as Ann -- warm, funny, charismatic, and far more than you'd expect from the damsel in distress.
| Original Score: 3/4
Movies for the Masses
Jackson puts his passion for epics to good use and creates film magic
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sydney Morning Herald
As for Kong himself, although the computer has played a large part in his creation, he could never be considered as anything less than real.
Metromix.com
For the most part, a chest-beating, banana-eating riot.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Moviola
Remake que supera en muchas cosas al original y que demuestra el talento y la magia para contar historias de uno de los genios contemporáneos del cine.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Reno Gazette-Journal
Everything about director Peter Jackson's King Kong update is bigger than the 1933 original. That's too say, the film is longer, more technically elaborate and -- by today's standards -- more exciting than the original film.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Empire Magazine
What could have been Jackson's folly is a triumph, the kind of romantic action spectacle that makes the big screen silver and provides box-office gold. Puts the prime in primate.
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| Original Score: 5/5
