King Kong unleashed
Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, is simply ravishing. Struggling to make it as an actress in Depression-era Manhattan, Ann signs on with master showman Carl Denham (played by Jack Black), hops on a tramp steamer and heads for an uncharted island. Carl also tricks Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) on board to write the script.
It's the film's second hour -- the arrival on Skull Island -- that kicks the action into high gear. King Kong appears on the screen, grabs Ann in his giant paw and fights off freakishly huge insects, spiders, stampeding dinosaurs and three T-Rexes.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Andy Serkis, whose movements served as a model for Kong, has done a laudable job. Watts and Serkis make you believe -- not in an erotic fantasy, but in tenderness and longing. In the film's last hour, Ann follows Kong to the top of the Empire State Building as he swats away the biplanes out to stop him from sharing one more sunrise with his lady.
Jackson, a wizard to rival Gandalf, ends 2005 on a note of pure exhilaration.
Source: rollingstone.com