Congo

CONGO (PG)

D: Frank Marshall

Paramount (Kathleen Kennedy & Sam Mercer)

USA 🇺🇸 1995

108 mins

Adventure

W: John Patrick Shanley [based on the novel by Michael Crichton]

DP: Allen Davieu

Ed: Anne V. Coates

Mus: Jerry Goldsmith

PD: J. Michael Riva

Dylan Webb (Dr. Peter Elliott), Laura Linney (Dr. Karen Ross), Ernie Hudson (Capt. Munro Kelly), Tim Curry (Herkermer Homolka), Joe Don Baker (R.B. Travis), Grant Heslov (Richard)

King Solomon's Mines style adventure with killer apes guarding a valuable treasure and a scientist, a mysterious Romanian, a diamond expert, a hunter and a 'talking' gorilla go in search of it.

Complete and utter hokum, with 'Amy The Talking Gorilla' delivering the most annoying animatronic performance in cinema history, although the worst performance in this nonsense must go to Tim 'Ze Must Find Ze Diamonds' Curry.

3/10