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This is a terrible movie. Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia) demonstrates no control over story, actors, effects, or general presentation in this adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel about an expedition into deep, dark Africa that runs into an unknown race of killer apes. The big monkeys attack and attack and attack and have to be fought off with machine guns and lasers--that's pretty much the story, except there's probably an even better one behind "fourth Ghostbuster" Ernie Hudson's bizarre decision to speak with a British accent. While Marshall wants us to root for the human characters, they're all so obnoxious and un
This is a terrible movie. Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia) demonstrates no control over story, actors, effects, or general presentation in this adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel about an expedition into deep, dark Africa that runs into an unknown race of killer apes. The big monkeys attack and attack and attack and have to be fought off with machine guns and lasers--that's pretty much the story, except there's probably an even better one behind "fourth Ghostbuster" Ernie Hudson's bizarre decision to speak with a British accent. While Marshall wants us to root for the human characters, they're all so obnoxious and unbelievable you can't help but feel lousy for the poor apes when they get chopped to bits just for defending their homes against these twerps. If you're not feeling enough environmentalist ire these days, watch this and get angry. --Tom Keogh
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Release date: 28 May 1996
EAN: 9780792136927 UPC: 097363303831
Tags: James Karen (1), Peter Jason (1), Joel Weiss (1), Kathleen Connors (1), Robert Almodovar (1), Lawrence T. Wrentz (1), Bill Pugin (1), Carolyn Seymour (1), Stuart Pankin (1), Misty Rosas (1), Lola Noh (1), John Hawkes (1), Grant Heslov (1), Romy Rosemont (1), Dylan Walsh (1), Action (1), Paramount (1), Joe Don Baker (1), PG-13 (1), Jungle (1)
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