The eighth wonder of the world.
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
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Nostalgic, classical in form, epic and earnest.
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- John Chardon TMDB · May 20197/10
They just couldn't leave him on his island could they... King Kong is directed by Peter Jackson and Jackson co-writes the screenplay with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. It's based on a story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell and Kyle Chandler. Music is by James Newton Howard and cinematography by Andrew Lesnie. After completing the hugely successful Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson turned his attentions to a reimaging of that daddy of classic creature features, King Kong. With all the new tools of the trade to hand, Jackson set about making a Kong film full of love and respect the original from 1933, whilst obviously making his own beast as it were. Story remains the same, mankind sets off to a fabled place known as Skull Island, there they find beasties not of this world, not least a gigantic mountain of a gorilla. They stupidly bring him back to America for money making exercises and things go really bad. The End. I have personally found it most interesting re-watching the film nearly 15 years since its release, especially given we have not long had a
Read the whole review on TMDB - GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 20231/10
05 is the worst of the Kong movies, mainly because it tries to do way too much. It tries to be epic, and because it tries to be epic it drags. DRAGS. Watching through it, there is about an hour and a half that I would cut, mostly because it's not necessary for a movie like this. There was character development... but too much of it. There was plot, but too much of it. If the movie was trimmed down with an eye to making it flow, it would have been decent. But instead they let it run too long with with not enough happening in it to be an exciting monster movie. The result was kind of a drag.
Read the whole review on TMDB - BarbaGiannion TMDB · Aug 20269/10
The best of the remakes produced so far, second only to the original of '33.\ Kong and the other Island's creatures are detailed in their alternate evolution and the work behind each is enormous.\ The colonial atmosphere and mentality of the era are also well represented and are very reminiscent of Cooper's original.\ Jack Black has given the best of himself in the film, skis and interested only in profit is an interesting and multifaceted character with motivations that are more or less shareable; but the real star of the show is none other than Andy Serkis who masterfully played Kong managing to perfectly represent a gorilla in his true nature, resulting in a deep and expressive character despite being an 8-meter monkey. Certainly Peter Jackson has left his unmistakable hand in this work which is sublime and elegant but at the same time grotesque and "old style", of a much higher level than the classic "Monster Movie" to date in my opinion is still one of the best films of the genre (certainly much better than that shit of '17) and the best of the Kong'saga (except for the original of '33 which is still a milestone in the Cinema's history).
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Cast
- Naomi WattsAnn Darrow
- Adrien BrodyJack Driscoll
- Jack BlackCarl Denham
- Andy SerkisKong / Lumpy
- Colin HanksPreston
- Thomas KretschmannCaptain Englehorn
- Jamie BellJimmy
- Kyle ChandlerBruce Baxter
- Evan ParkeHayes
- Lobo ChanChoy
Crew
- Peter JacksonDirector
- Philippa BoyensWriter
- Fran WalshWriter
- Peter JacksonWriter
- Andrew LesnieDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Jamie SelkirkEditor
- Jan BlenkinProducer
- Carolynne CunninghamProducer
- Peter JacksonProducer
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