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King Kong Lives

1986

John Guillermin

Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz ...

3.6

809

Adventure. Fantasy. Sci-Fi A giant ape King Kong, which was shot and fell off the Empire State Building, appears to be alive, but is in coma for 10 years and desperately needs a blood transfusion in order to have an artificial heart implanted. Suddenly, in the rainforest, another gigantic ape is found - this time a female. She is brought to the USA, and the heart is successfully implanted. But then King Kong, having felt a female ape, breaks loose...

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The problem with everyone in 'King Kong Lives' is that they're in a boring movie, and they know they're in a boring movie, and they just can't stir themselves to make an effort (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		TV Guide	"There is a lot of camp value here. Fans of truly bad cinema couldn't ask for a sillier big-budget production--envisioned with the utmost seriousness."
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] has a dull cast and a plot that's even duller, but the ape himself is in good form. Thanks to Carlo Rambaldi's creature design"
		Nathan Rabin AV Club	"'King Kong Lives' is a terrible film, alternately boring and fascinatingly misguided. But it’s ragingly inessential more than anything else."
		Alan Jones Radio Times	"As if the 1976 remake of 'King Kong' wasn't bad enough, producer Dino de Laurentiis and director John Guillermin sink to even more ludicrous depths with this awful sequel (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"

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