Holy King Kong my middle aged friends. I'm already 45 minutes into this CGI monstrosity and I can tell that it is not going to win me over and leave me wanting more. I do admit to having a soft spot for The Rock - Dwayne Johnson, as he plays a sensitive scientist who cares about his Gorilla George who gets blasted with space rock and turns into a gigantic monster who is going to tear down a city and get chased by helicopters. Where have we seen this story before?
I am not immune to a bit of fun - I get that this is not meant to be a serious drama, but it is hard to take any of this nonsense seriously, but I guess most of the younger audience won't care about that, they just want the big scenes, the chases and fire. I see reading the Wikipedia entry that the movie is loosely based on a video game which explains it all really. So this is a bit of a Friday fail for me - 2/5.
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I like Johnson, too. He seems a genuinely nice guy in real life, but this film struck me as a sillier version of King Kong. I watched the remarke of "Godzilla" a while ago (the one with Watanabe), and enjoyed that. But I always preferred the King of Monsters to the King of Kong.
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