Congo
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 9, 1995 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
24
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
10
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30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
As if aware that Congo is the least interesting adventure ever filmed, screenwriter John Patrick Shanley (who once wrote a funny movie called "Moonstruck") tries to inoculate the activities with humor. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
But Congo leads to nothing but a fierce battle with the gray gorillas, a kind of guns vs. fangs scene; and a convenient and incongruous volcano eruption that looks as artificial as a video game. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
In stupidity, this movie ranks up there among the greats. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
One thing is certain: It's a bomb trying to be a hit, and at that it'll never succeed. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Without Spielberg's technical pizazz, and with a gummy mixture of homage and spoof, Congo chokes on its own tongue in cheek. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
I don't know the novel, but judging from the script by Crichton and John Patrick Shanley, this must be scraping the bottom of the Crichton barrel. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
All I know is that something has gone terribly, drum-beatingly wrong in Congo (Paramount, PG-13), and you can sense Jungle Trouble brewing from the git-go. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Not only have bothersome plot changes been made, but the entire tone of the book has been transformed from tension to tongue-in-cheek with dismal results. Read full review
10
The New YorkerBruce Diones
The director, Frank Marshall, who has produced films for Steven Spielberg, gets his own Michael Crichton book to play with—and the results are disastrous. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
Jawdroppingly bad, this adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1980 novel about a talking ape named Amy and a fabled lost city deep in the jungles of central Africa is as sophisticated in execution as a Jungle Jim movie. Read full review
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