Needed to be 3 hours

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2007)

I struggling to think of a reason this couldn't have been 3 hours long. Would it really have impacted the budget significantly to flesh it out a little more? Maybe the studio have realised that it'll turn over squillions of dollars no matter how drastically the source material is disregarded or changed. It's a case of "get it out the door as quickly as possible before the younger characters don't look so young anymore, bearing in mind there's 2 more episodes to get into the can" If King Kong had been treated like this the first 5 minutes would have played out something like this: "Oh Mr Denham, there's so little work going around in New York in these depressed days"...."OK, come film a movie with me about a mysterious island"....Cuts to boat rowing ashore...steamer in background...."What's that moving the trees over there?" Not quite the same build up somehow. That's how this movie felt for me: We were seriously shortchanged.
I enjoyed it for sure, but it could have been so much better.