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OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh |
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5/5 | "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." |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
| "Three hours of magnificent escapist entertainment." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
A | "There are lots of reasons we go to the movies, and King Kong celebrates and showcases all of them." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
8/10 | "If you’re looking for a rollercoaster ride, you’ll love it -- as long as you don’t mind a nice hour-long carriage ride through Central Park first." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
D+ | "In the process of modernizing Kong, Jackson has made his film a mix of ungodly spectacle and masturbatory overkill." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
2.5/5 | "By stretching everything out to Epic length, Jackson has taken on well more than his source material -- reproduced with fervent love -- can support." |
| ToxicUniverse.com |
| Chris Barsanti |
3/5 | "three big hours of monkey business... overwrought and self-indulgent to a fault" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
B+ | ""King Kong" is a rare film that would be improved with a "director's cut" that excised rather than added." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Ann and Kong's romance drives the film. At once sensational and heartrending, it's an intimacy that can't last.
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| PopPolitics.com |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
4/5 | "The greatest charm of the new 'King Kong' comes when Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) bonds with her 20-foot primate boyfriend." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
2/5 | "To borrow from an old joke, Peter Jackson's King Kong is thirty minutes of spectacular entertainment spread out over a three hour movie." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A- | "One of the season's most enjoyable films - even if it's a wee bit overlong." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3/4 | "Excess has never felt so spectacular... but there's nothing here a good editor couldn't have improved (had he been allowed to)." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
C+ | "CGI spectacle that smacks of self-importance and showbiz hustle P.T. Barnum style." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "A lavish, high-octane epic. King Kong has a welcome heart to go along with its razzle-dazzle, but it is a heart that alternates between hot and cold." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
C- | "In the end, "Kong" lands with a resounding thud." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
1/5 | "Jackson peca de la misma megalomanía que estiró y arruinó parcialmente los últimos 45 minutos de El Regreso del Rey (...)" |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B+ | "It's an epic experience, three solid hours of high-flying entertainment and special effects wizardry" |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "More than just homage or a Valentine to the original. Jackson is a romantic and is playing Don Juan with the RKO classic, to the audience and the outright joy of filmmaking." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A+ | "It is so good, it might make you cry." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
| "Fails to match the simple, handmade artistry of the original" |
| CinePassion |
| Fernando F. Croce |
3/4 | "King Kong has its trivial share of shortcomings. Nevertheless, a generously solid escapist piece of entertainment filled with wonderment and calculating verve." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B | "Often wondrous to behold and enormously exciting (and, amazingly, even occasionally moving), but also way too long and at times exhaustingly elaborate." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
3/5 | "A sensational performance by Naomi Watts as the beauty who makes even a truly fierce beast beautiful just by loving him." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
44/100 | ""It was beauty that killed the beast," remarks Carl Denham at the conclusion of Peter Jackson's bloated King Kong, but he might as well have been referring to Jackson's formerly obese figure suffocating all the life out of his 2005 remake." |
| Film and Felt |
| Gabe Leibowitz |
3.5/4 | "With a wizard at the helm, there are times when re-makes can be glorious things." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
2/4 | "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." |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
10/10 | "This is what it means to go to the theater and watch a big movie made with love, care, and intelligence." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
2/4 | "Jackson's love and nostalgia for his beast is what kills the movie." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
4/5 | "A hugely enjoyable, eye-popping movie that pushes all the right buttons." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
7/10 | "Peter Jackson's King Kong provides a good, stirring, heroic-sized motion-picture event, without ever quite moving one the way his Lord of the Rings epics did." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "Peter Jackson delivers an update possessing raw power and a pure heart." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| John P. McCarthy |
3.5/4 | "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." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
4/5 | "Jackson puts his passion for epics to good use and creates film magic" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/5 | "Lost is the Depression era fear of exploitation and now it is only beauty to fear." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.0/4 | "... Peter Jackson delivers the re-invention of the modern monster movie that Godzilla failed to achieve." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
3/5 | "Peter Jackson may have lost weight, but he hasn't lost his gluttony. There is no excuse for the 3 hour and 7 minute running time of King Kong. Hollywood needs an enema, and Peter Jackson needs an editor." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
A- | "a marvelous entertainment, a great big thumping movie-movie that stands beside, all the while honoring, the greatness of the original.
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| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
5/5 | "Digno de ser llamado, la Octava Maravilla del mundo." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
4/4 | "[Jackson] delivers three solid hours of breathless, enchanting entertainment." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3.5/4 | "Spectacular in the way it gives us what we expect and then some, and manages to find sincerity within a premise that, in this day and age, comes preloaded with irony." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
9/10 | "This is a production that proves that even a great film can have a remake that is better. I just wish Willis O'Brien were around and could look what they've done to his Kong." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "[I]f Jackson set out to make a film that would blow minds, child and adult alike...then he has succeeded enormously..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/5 | "I watched the last hour of the film with a knot in my stomach, the result of a combination of the love story and the brilliant special effects." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "King Kong is an adrenaline-pumping joyride that you won't soon forget. However, what really makes this a masterpiece is that Jackson understands every emotional beat of the story." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "Packed with enough edge-of-your-seat/did-I-just-see-that/goose-bumpy popcorn pleasure for a year's worth of blockbusters." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
C+ | "Fitfully extraordinary yet largely lackluster." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Em meio a tanta ação, Jackson consegue criar uma história de amor verossímil entre um gorila de 8 metros e uma frágil loira. Não dá pra exigir mais do que isso, não é mesmo?" |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
4/5 | "Jackson has created a world effective enough to draw you in and, a few stupid exceptions aside, keep you engrossed for three solid hours." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
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OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh |
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