Stars: Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker, Tim Curry

Director: Frank Marshall

Summary: Based on the bestselling book by Michael Crichton, the story follows an expedition which is returning a gorilla to the wild in the hope she will lead them to the lost city of Zinj and its diamond mines, but the team soon become an endangered species themselves.

An African mountain gorilla who's been taught sign language by a young primatologist is returned to the jungles of the Congo in this adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1980 sci-fi adventure novel. During their journey they cross paths with greedy corporate scavengers searching for a hidden cache of diamonds.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on August 21, 2006 8:15 AM

Superb and gripping viewing, plenty of action and hokum and this surely must be Bruce Campbell's shortest script but nonetheless it was boys - own stuff with the double - crossing Tim Curry, mostly always the creepy foreign bad - guy getting his come - uppance at the end. Enjoyable movie !

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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 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

Aspect Ratio:	1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Teaser Trailer, Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1995
Release Date:	July 31, 2000
Runtime:	104 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P H E 8013
Keywords:	Action, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure, Congo
Genre:	Action/Adventure