Flight Kong
25ft tall Jodie Foster goes ape on an airliner after cabin crew impose a
hefty hand luggage impost on her 6' banana, and then lose it and deny it
it ever existed. Peter Jackson flush with success from LOTR trilogy goes
well over the top and no one has the balls to say no to him. Some say he
is the living reincarnation of Francis Ford Coppola, and in this regard,
given too much money and stuck in the forest, he too went slowly insane.
It is rumoured he shot 6,825,000 feet of film for this production, and
so much was left out, that offcuts were able to be cobbled together and
used to create the stand alone feature film Snakes on a Plane, with
Samuel Jackson digitally added (which explains the lack of plot).
Peter Jackson, in a smorgasbord of frenzied self adulation, not seen
since John Candy and Chris Farley coupled at a homosexual food and hot
tub cocaine binging orgy, steals heavily from almost every genre, but
particularly from The Mummy series, the Jurassic Park series, The Mummy
series, the Jurassic Park series, and not to mention The Mummy series,
and the Jurassic Park series. I did notice an attempt to bring some sort
of existential gravitas to the story, by the in your face introduction
of a Heart of Darkness novel, but one gets the impression that was only
to emulate the spear through the back from one of those damned black
skinned savages scene, and the sense of a film seeking a grounding in
something (as amateur as it was) soon passes.
How does it end? I don't know, I fell asleep, or something. But,
"capturing 25 foot gorillas, and against all the laws of nature, taking
them to the big city where they just can't get in touch with the
sepulchral city work ethic" stories never end well, and in this case,
sadly for Jodie, I'm informed that the plane plummets into one of the
Twin Tower buildings, causing it to collapse after an hour or so of
frightful burning.
2 + 3 = 5 out of ten.
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