Congo
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22 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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6.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 26 Ratings

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  • Starring: Laura Linney, Tim Curry
  • Summary: From the best seller by Michael Crichton comes an action-packed adventure filled with state-of-the-art technology and primal fear. (Paramount)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 10 out of 19
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    The result is not a movie that is very good, exactly, but it's entertaining and funny.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff(not credited)
    50
    Congo, adapted by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Stephen Spielberg protege Frank Marshall, is not one of the better silly action pictures set in gratuitously fake jungles and featuring nefarious foreigners, threatening natives, and talking gorillas.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    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.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Zarathesus
    10
    22?
    Some of these critics just need to have a nice, relaxing dump.
    Does not deserve such a rating. Not every movie needs to be a Stanley Kubri    ck masterpiece.
    Avatar was a complete hack of Dances with Wolves and Ferngully with worldwide success....yet this kind of original popcorn fun is buried.
    It's unbelievable how much some of these crotch stains love the smell of their own farts.
    Rent it. This is a classic B-movie. It's not nostalgia that's guiding my view on this. This movie is still good by today's standards.
    It's not as deep as Jurassic Park, but it's still a memorable flick.    … Expand
  2. JamesBond
    7
    This movie may not be a classic, but the critics' overly negative consensus was not very fair. The movie was entertaining at times, especially toward the end, when the man-eating gorillas attacked, and the special effects were pretty good.… Expand
  3. DudsiH.
    6
    I saw this movie as a kid and I remember finding it quite entertaining. So I guess it isn't as bad as the critics say it is.
  4. [Anonymous]
    6
    This Crichton adaptation isn't as disastrous as the critics say, but it's ultimately a disappointment. The volcano

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