Welcome to the 21st century: king kong - King Kong Reviews

King Kong ushered to the 21st century, but still reminiscing the 1930?s is a brilliant remake of a masterpiece suitable to today?s generation of audiences. The story remains the same but it has been told countless times and yet retains it classic tale of an adventure glazed with drama. Peter Jackson, director of Lord of the Rings, is no doubt one of the best directors the world has to offer. His extraordinary attention to details is well defined on the scenes that translate screen after screen. A true visionary indeed and he raised the bar every now and then for each movie he makes. The movie is broken into three segments namely pre-adventure, adventure, post-adventure but build up on the characters themselves making you forget that you are actually watching a popcorn movie. This is not a bad thing if you want to win an Oscars, but tend to be dragging to mindless ones. The pre-adventure provides a historical perspective of the 1930?s with retro designs in all facets of the movie. We are introduced to Ann Darrow, a theatre performer during the Depression era in New York City. Watching her is like being drawn to her like a moth over a light and your empathy towards her bring a soulful understanding to the dilemma that arises. Naomi Watts indeed showcase a brilliant job in providing her that aura of sigh every time you looked at her. She doesn?t even need a lot of lines to provide that charismatic character. Jack Black as Carl Denham, a director who reminds me more of Peter Jackson trying to direct this movie provides the conundrum of trying to have a movie or trying to earn money. He is drive by greed, but something is missing in portraying that he is not the antagonist in the film but a character in a story that intertwines the whole segment together by trying to find Skull Island. The adventure begins when they left New York and supposed to go to Singapore as what they told the crew, but in fact is planning to go to Skull Island to shoot a film. When the boat arrive in the island, the eerie feeling is being generated as anticipation on what would happen really put you at the edge of your seat. Curiosity or adventure gives you that inclination building up to the introduction of King Kong. The post-adventure brings us back to New York, as our characters goes back to their lives and try to adjust what happened. Carl on the other hand tried to capitalize on it with the capture of King Kong that eventually wreak havoc to the city. Those who were put in the sidelines like Adrien Brody?s Jack Driscell was the hero who never give up on finding Ann was completely overshadowed by the main characters, but still provide a segment on trying to understand humanity even for King Kong. The effects are brilliantly displayed that provide a certain synergy to the theme of the movie from the giant insects, to dinosaurs and finally to King Kong was well done indeed. The science fiction of it was left out to the audience on why they grow so big. The good thing about this movie is that the anticipation was well anticipated and didn?t become Godzilla in essence but a true justification of the previous King Kong movie. The movie was well paced except for some certain dialogues not worthy in making it a 3 hours movie. Who is really the beast here is it King Kong or Man who tries to exploit everything. I really like the movie and hopefully you would enjoy it to.