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Went to see this flick last nite on opening nite with my wife. We were both really looking forward to this movie as the trailers looked amazing. I was kind of taken aback by the 3hours and 7 minute running time but I figured.... eh, who needs sleep anyway?

Let me just preface this by saying I wasn't a HUGE King Kong fan to begin with. I had only seen the original original once and I wasn't that impressed. However this King Kong looked great! The graphics were amazing and some of the fight scenes were just spectacular. The jungle was so lush and vibrant that you felt like you were watching "What Dreams May Come" because of all the richness of the color in the film.

However, that's where Kong's greatness stopped. The plot was boring and devoid of any redeemable value. The characters and their actions were very superficial and you felt like everything they were doing was really just an act. There was no believability to the characters. Hell, the most believable character was Kong himself LOL.

There was some definite "cheese" thrown into the movie as well where I could have sworn at one point that Kong and the lead actress were going to start making out. And the ending was drawn out and overly dramatic like you would find in a third rate Soap Opera. Leave it to Peter Jackson to really draw out an ending to where you're just begging for it to stop.

So all in all, the movie was worth the price of admission for the the amazing graphics alone. However the plot and acting in this movie just plain stunk.

I would have given this movie a 2 out of 5 if it wasn't for the great aesthetic beauty of the film. That bumped it up to 3 out of 5.

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