It seems the director doesn't know when to leave well enough alone. Had he stopped with dinosaurs, some maybe one or two extinct animals and of course the Ape it might have been a good movie. The technical effects are excellent, very realistic, the dinosaurs look really "alive", King Kong does indeed project feelings, even the acting is reasonable. It would have made a great movie had it been shortened by an hour or so. But no, he had to go on and on and on, spiders, strange creatures, bats, and who knows what other unimaginable creatures. Roars and roars, people falling and falling strangely enough coming back to life too. 3 hours (or more? I left before the end couldn't take it any more) made it a boring and repetitive movie. PS: What is a spoiler?
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Holy Lola
(2004)
Gripping and very believable
23 June 2005
I found the move to be extremely believable and thus gripping and fascinating to the last frame. The corruption in Cambodia is almost unbelievable, the agony of adopting a child in that country are hard to imagine. Paul Pot left a miserable, poor, largely primitive and corrupt society behind well documented in this movie. Little is shown of the country, stressing the fact that people who come there to adopt a child have neither the time nor the inclination to see any of it the aim is to finish the incredible amount of bureaucracy and get out before someone else demands some "service charge" Both the acting as well as the direction is excellent.
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