I didn't really know anything about this film before I started to watch it, the poster was bonkers with a scared jaguar on a blonde jungle woman's back and an angry ape in the background terrorizing citizens of a big city. The actual film isn't as exciting as that. Some rich men going to the library to find out about a mythical ape in the Indian jungles that they want for themselves and make money from. They find an unlucky explorer, Chen Zhenfeng, to do their work for them while the main-baddie enjoy his time in India with hugging easily-dressed ladies and drinking.
Chen not only finds the ape, but also a blonde jungle woman that was raised by the ape, and somehow he convinces her to take her and the ape to Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, things goes from bad to worse with the jungle woman running away from horny men on the streets, the ape going mad and destroys buildings, cars, anything it can find - and everything it hits explodes.
I don't think the creator of this film really understood the message of King Kong when they made this film. It's very cheesy and bad, the ape is obviously a man in a costume, you can see it both on the movements and the eyes. And the jungle woman sure wasn't very strong for having grown up in the jungle, she also learned cantonese very fast when communicating with Chen.
I've read some reviews calling this film 'so-bad-it's-good' but I wouldn't go that far, I might've chuckled 3-4 times throughout the film, but it isn't enough for me to recommend it. Watch it for the third act if you really want to see some miniatures getting destroyed.
Chen not only finds the ape, but also a blonde jungle woman that was raised by the ape, and somehow he convinces her to take her and the ape to Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, things goes from bad to worse with the jungle woman running away from horny men on the streets, the ape going mad and destroys buildings, cars, anything it can find - and everything it hits explodes.
I don't think the creator of this film really understood the message of King Kong when they made this film. It's very cheesy and bad, the ape is obviously a man in a costume, you can see it both on the movements and the eyes. And the jungle woman sure wasn't very strong for having grown up in the jungle, she also learned cantonese very fast when communicating with Chen.
I've read some reviews calling this film 'so-bad-it's-good' but I wouldn't go that far, I might've chuckled 3-4 times throughout the film, but it isn't enough for me to recommend it. Watch it for the third act if you really want to see some miniatures getting destroyed.