Amazon.com: This is a terrible movie. Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia) demonstrates no control over story, actors, effects, or general presentation in this adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel about an expedition into deep, dark Africa that runs into an unknown race of killer apes. The big monkeys attack and attack and attack and have to be fought off with machine guns and lasers--that's pretty much the story, except there's probably an even better one behind "fourth Ghostbuster" Ernie Hudson's bizarre decision to speak with a British accent. While Marshall wants us to root for the human characters, they're all so obnoxious and unbelievable you can't help but feel lousy for the poor apes when they get chopped to bits just for defending their homes against these twerps. If you're not feeling enough environmentalist ire these days, watch this and get angry. --Tom Keogh
Boooooooooooooooooring!!! I try to write decent reviews, and give a movie a chance if it had even one shred of entertainment value in it. This movie is not one of those cases. This movie makes me laugh at the fact that Paramount put up the money to have this movie made, which is a joke! I can't believe Michael Crichton wrote this.
I found a few movies boring in my time, one of them being The Exorcist, and another being the first Godfather movie, however, I would watch those movies 5 times in a row back to back before I would ever watch this movie again. At least those 2 movies are considered classics, and have somewhat stood the test of time. I was bored to tears watching this one.
I think the only good thing about this movie is the actors. You'd think, you can't go wrong with actors like Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Delroy Lindo, Tim Curry, and a short appearance by the B-Movie King Bruce Campbell. Even they can't save this stupid story.
I'll give you a couple of quick highlights of what the story is about. They send a team to get this diamond, and they disappear at the hands of what looks like a bunch of Gorillas, so they send Laura Linney to check if there's any survivors. A guy also teaches a Gorilla sign language, and they send them to the same place hoping it will teach other gorillas how to speak sign language or some stupid crap like that...BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!!!
I wouldn't recommend this dvd to anyone with a brain, or even half a brain. It's not even a fun movie by accident. There's only like 2 funny parts in the movie that are even relatively entertaining. One being Tim Curry, when he's about to get on the plane turns to Ernie Hudson and utters something like SHUT UP YOU PIECE OF...and then stops midsentence, and then apologizes for losing his head. And another is when Ernie Hudson looks up at the moon and says when the moon gets like this, every monkey thinks he's Elvis Presley...referring to it being mating season.
I would give this movie a -50 stars if I could, but since it's out of 5 stars I'll give it a 1. Only someone who doesn't know the difference between good and bad movies would find this entertaining. So stay away at all costs!
Shame on those zipped up imitators A pale remake of so many films or books about the Mines of King Solomon, the lost valley and the wild African nature that has no real existence except in our phantasms. So the film is just a poor piece of entertainment in which everything is so artificial that we see the zippers on the four sides of all the gorillas. I just wonder if the human beings are not the same with four zippers, one on each side. That's what modern technology and digitalized 3D virtual reality is producing day after day and they just edit it into a long feature and they call it a film. One more miracle of that modern age.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Adventure with some laughs and hey, killer gorillas! Not all Michael Crichton inspired movies can match up to Jurassic Park, but what they can offer is a fun adventure.
"Congo" is a very fun movie with some stand out performances by Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson and Delroy Lindo. It's closer in tone to the Indiana Jones movies than anything else, with it's search for treasure, battles in exotic locations and humerous one-liners.
Some stand-out scenes are:
-Ernie Hudson's intro to himself as Monroe Kelley "I'll be your great white hunter today, though I happen to be black" as the team arrives during an attack on the African President. -Amy the Gorilla calling Laura Linney "Ug-ly-La-dy". -Delroy Lindo berating Tim Curry's character and demanding that he, "Stop eating my sesame cake!" and then stapling up a bag of bribe money singing "Don't want nobody peaking". -The descent into the caves is also pretty exciting.
If you like adventure with a humorous overtone, then this movie is for you-enjoy!
"Stop eating my sesame cakes" Herkermer Homolka (Tim Curry) has been looking for the Lost City of Zinj. He is contemplating picking up a few souvenirs when he finds it. Seems that the only one that has been there is Amy (Misty Rosas). However Amy needs to go home. Her buddy and mentor is economically taped out. So they all team up with a Dr. Karen Ross (Laura Linney) who just happens to be going in that direction and can afford the travel arrangements. While Karen thinks she is going to save fellow explorer, her boss also has a nefarious plan.
Will Amy go home? Will Karen find her friend "alive"? Does the boss's plan come to fruition? Will Herkermer Homolka get his trinkets or his fingers Zinj'd?
What secret does the lost city hold?
Let's face it Tim Curry makes the movie. Not only doe he excels in his character but allows others to play off him. Otherwise this would just be a run of the mill misadventure film. Great accent.
Decent enough film This film story-wise isn't that great or particularly interesting. It has its moments though, especially with Tim Curry in it. I enjoy Laura Linney's work alot so I certainly don't mind watching this film a few more times if just to watch her. I suppose its mildly entertaining, in parts, though the ending was a bit stupid and completely unrealistic.
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