New York Daily NewsPeter Jackson's King Kong is the most thrilling, soulful monster picture ever made. At last, it can be said without irony --...
Entertainment WeeklyThe movie seals Jackson's reputation: He's the most gifted big-picture artist working today, a master of epics from a human-...
Rolling StoneHere is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we've been waiting for all year.
Richard RoeperThis is a great thrill ride with the occasionally beautiful moment, as when Kong and Ann admire a sunset. Pay no attention t...
SlateHowever jawdropping the big effects (there's a dinosaur stampede and some giant white worms who suck men into their squishy ...
New York PostMost great movies are lucky to have a handful of moments to remember; King Kong has at least two dozen.
USA TodayJackson is a visionary filmmaker who is not only a technical wizard but also a master storyteller.
The New York TimesPeter Jackson's remake is as much a tribute to the old, seat-of-the-pants spirit of early motion pictures as it is an exerci...
Village VoiceGiven the excessive length and bombastic F/X, there's too much action and precious little poetry.
Chicago TribuneJackson is filmmaker and entertainer enough to use all the technology at his disposal without losing sight of the sublimely ...
Houston ChroniclesToo big for its own good, too pure of heart to diminish, brawling, magnificent, heroic and flawed: That's King Kong, and tha...
Film ThreatJackson has created a world effective enough to draw you in and, a few stupid exceptions aside, keep you engrossed for three...
Salon ArtsGood things do come in big packages. The trick for any filmmaker is to find the small movie within the big one, which is exa...
The Philadelphia InquirerAlthough King Kong is spectacular, its power doesn't reside in its glittering vision of 1933 Manhattan, Jackson's virtuoso f...
San Francisco ChronicleThe unrelenting computer-animated action suffocates what seems to have been the movie's main purpose, to expand on the Kong-...
Washington PostOne hundred eighty-seven minutes of mesmerization, astonishment, thrills, chills, spills, kills and ills, Peter Jackson's bi...
The Austin ChronicleThe interplay between Watts' melancholy blond and the great ape is almost too real to be believed. It's touching and heartfe...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Peter Jackson
Writer: Merian C. Cooper
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody
Release: December 14, 2005
Writer: Merian C. Cooper
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody
Release: December 14, 2005
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