Steven Spielberg took a preposterous Michael Crichton novel about resurrecting dinosaurs from DNA samples and gave us "Jurrasic Park", a thrilling, exciting adventure/thriller that still holds up today despite the advances in CGI effects since then. The producers of "Congo" did the exact opposite, they took an interesting adventure story and turned it into unwatchable dreck.
If watching people in shabby gorilla suits pretending to be gorillas and failing miserably, while bad actors chew abysmal dialog in a ludicrous plot is your thing, then this is the movie for you. Me? I'll take "Jurassic Park" over this crap any day of the week. Life is too short to waste on moronic drivel like "Congo".
Some reviewers argue that "Congo" is a juvenile movie that's not to be taken seriously, and that it should be enjoyed as the preposterous silly movie that it is. They might have a point if "Congo" was actually watchable. To get to those moments of juvenile glee you have to sit through hours (well, its only minutes but it seems like hours) of dull, lifeless set-up... or you can just fast forward to the funny stuff. That does not a good movie make, that's just a few worthwhile moments of comedy in a bad movie.
Watch this garbage at your own risk.
If watching people in shabby gorilla suits pretending to be gorillas and failing miserably, while bad actors chew abysmal dialog in a ludicrous plot is your thing, then this is the movie for you. Me? I'll take "Jurassic Park" over this crap any day of the week. Life is too short to waste on moronic drivel like "Congo".
Some reviewers argue that "Congo" is a juvenile movie that's not to be taken seriously, and that it should be enjoyed as the preposterous silly movie that it is. They might have a point if "Congo" was actually watchable. To get to those moments of juvenile glee you have to sit through hours (well, its only minutes but it seems like hours) of dull, lifeless set-up... or you can just fast forward to the funny stuff. That does not a good movie make, that's just a few worthwhile moments of comedy in a bad movie.
Watch this garbage at your own risk.