Veteran character actor Marc Lawrence stars as your basic evil scientist who creates a dangerous, murderous, not-to-be-trifled race of robotic killer gorilla slaves. Lawrence's plans to overthrow the world are thwarted by a musclebound lunk (stolidly played by former Hercules Brad Harris, who shows off his brawny chest as often as possible) who's ventured into the doc's remote corner of the jungle in order to rescue some beautiful gal Lawrence has abducted. Seedy, grim, slow and humorless, with only the lovely presence of bodacious jungle babe Esmeralda Barros walking around mostly nude and the sporadic cheeseball gorilla gore effects offering any slight relief from Roger Morris' static direction, a drab, talk-heavy script, uniformly stiff acting from an understandably uninspired cast, tatty production values, inert pacing, pathetically crummy and unconvincing ape suits, and a general air of ponderous, unrelenting tedium, this flick overall sizes up as a sleep-inducing dead slug of a stinker.
Review of Kong Island
