King kong is king....of boredom - King Kong Reviews

I?d head into this movie with fairly low expectations, or you might come out disappointed. The overall plot of the entire three hour movie can be summed up in one sentence: Bring King Kong to New York, then kill him. Unfortunately, the writers saw how thin this plot was and decided to stuff it with any random thing they could find. There was a good half hour of dinosaurs thrown in there for thrills too. Yes, dinosaurs?there?s no reason or explanation as to why they?re in the film, but the characters spend all their time running from everything and not asking deep plot-like questions. A lot of time in the movie is spent looking for Naomi Watts, who is constantly getting herself in trouble with bugs, dinos, more dinos, and even bats. Apparently, saving her life over and over again is enough to win the girl?s heart, which is amazingly what draws Kong to her in the first place. Seventeen men lose their lives to save this girl. WHY? This has got to be the largest logical gap I?ve ever seen in a film. The entire crew of the ship leaves to rescue one woman, and more than half of them don?t come back. Who?s left to man the ship when they head for America? Next, the movie jumps to New York, where Kong has been tied up and put on display. There is nothing to indicate that this is the first show, of one of many, but low and behold, Kong escapes. The best part of the whole movie is when the monkey runs through the streets, picking up blonde women in hopes that it?s Ms. Watts, then flinging them in some direction when it?s not. The rest of the movie consists of the military trying to kill Kong, but missing dozens of times, striking buildings, cars, and anything else unlucky enough to be standing nearby. I kid you not, you actually see them level an apartment building. After ten minutes, you begin to wonder just who the bigger threat to the city is. Did I forget the token car chase? There?s a car chase. In all, there?s more action in this film than there really should be, and it begins to wear on you after a while. Eventually you just get faded to everything, because you know that the actors are all really just in front of a blue-screen. All forms of special effects are no longer special, you come to expect them. You begin to predict the effects almost as easily as you predict the plot. The movie ends with a tacky line from Jack Black saying, ?The planes didn?t kill Kong, the Beauty did? (referring to Watts). But in reality, you can?t help but want to say, ?No, Peter Jackson killed Kong.?