Dear god, lol, i found this movie exciting and fun all the way through, if you want a BAD movie take a look at Blood Rayne, Or Timothy Hines War Of The Worlds, but in congo the acting was great, the story was interesintg, and yes I HAVE read the book, but as i sit here day by day and watching good movies get slammed unnesescarily, its about time i really put my words in.
shareI agree, I really enjoyed Congo. I first saw it when I was 10 years old so really all I remembered from it was bits and pieces. So, my wife and I rented it on Netflix and watched it last night for the first time in almost 20 years and we both liked it a lot! Sure, it's not the best movie by any stretch, but what was so bad? It was a fun movie and it never got boring to me at any point.
It's always fun going back and watching movies you saw and enjoyed as a child from an adult's perspective. Some movies are just as you remembered, some are better, some are worse. Congo was just as I remembered and I may have enjoyed it slightly more now. I was pretty surprised to come on here and see that people really hated this movie. Baffling
I also saw it when I was a kid in the 90s. All I remembered was that it scared the *beep* out of me and I had nightmares about those grey gorillas. Weirdly I'd also seen films like Alien and The Shining, but for some reason those didn't affect me and this did, even though it's not a horror film. Just something about those unstoppable gorillas ripping people to shreds that struck terror in me as a child and engrained scenes from it into my memory.
Anyway, Netflix recommended it, and (a little hesitantly) I accepted. It's at least 15 years since I saw it as a child. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but the 5.0 rating on IMDb suggested that it wouldn't be very good. But I was pleasantly surprised.
It actually isn't scary, but it was entertaining and the acting wasn't bad at all. In fact it had some good actors in it. The pacing was good. It has some classic funny lines in it. There were silly things (like shooting the satellite out of the sky with the laser) but it's the kind of movie where you don't care. It's not a documentary, it's an action/adventure film that's meant to entertain.
I feel like it should be remembered like The Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell actually auditioned for the leading role. Maybe if he'd got it, it could have been. Perhaps where it fell down is that it's from a Michael Crichton book, and coming out so close to Jurassic Park, people just compared it to that and were thinking about it in the wrong way.
Personally I would recommend this to friends. It's not one of the best films ever. I wouldn't give it over 7/10, but no way is it a 5 or below. There must be a lot of people giving it really low ratings that it doesn't deserve.