Quick Movie Review: Congo

3/10

Oh dear oh dear. Michael Crichton time in honour of the late king of your basic science fear movies.

Ernie Hudson aside (and maybe Laura Linney, though a solid performance from her is not very surprising), this is turd on a stick. A dumb concept and totally pointless.

It is worth looking at though, if only to marvel at one of the greatest hammy performances of all time in Tim Curry's bizarre "Romanian".

While its refreshing that the two leads are at no point romantically involved, there's just no depth to the characters, no particularly grey moral areas like there were in Jurassic Park, it's just a mess.

Avoid unless you're really bored and/or generous of spirit. I may watch Jurassic Park again just to see a fitting memorial to the fella.

Oh, The Andromeda Strain is pretty good too. This is not.

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