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Congo (1995)

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Release Date: June 9, 1995
Genre: Action, Horror
Running Time: 109 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for jungle adventure terror and action and brief strong language.
Director: Frank Marshall
Writer: John Patrick Shanley, Michael Crichton
Cast: Stuart Pankin, Mary Ellen Trainor, Misty Rosas, Lorene Noh, Joe Don Baker, Grant Heslov, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney

Karen Ross has been sent by her boss, Travis, to the lost city of Zinj in the Congo. Just a short time ago, they received a transmission from the previous expedition showing crushed heads and a strange ape. She teams up with primatologist Peter Elliot and an ape named Amy who has been drawing pictures of the lost city, along with the mercenary Munro and a few others, to find Zinj via satellites and computers. Read more

Movie Review

Grade: D Congo, Michael Crichton's movie after Jurassic Park, left little to be desired for. The movie could have been good; it just wasn't. The apes were lame and Amy was even lamer. The gray apes go around, kill about one or two of the characters and then are cut up by a giant laser gun the first expedition just happened to have. They then, with the diamonds, have to escape a volcano that just conveniently erupts and finally escape on a balloon. The whole concept of the story was invisible and the combination of bad scripting, animatronics, and story made Congo a waste of time. Read the full movie review

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