Some of the effects feel very rushed and off-putting, such as the scene of King Kong climbing up a mountain during the rain time which looks like he's climbing around a literal painting of a mountain.

The film is nothing but just some romantic comedy that features the King Kong character with some female ape that comes out of nowhere.

There is literally no explanation to why the scientists are trying to keep King Kong alive, making it extremely forced.

A lot of the portion of the film is just King Kong and the female ape just making grunt noises and body language stuff, but not in a very clever way, making the movie increasingly boring to watch.

Presumably, it's meant to refer to King Kong having survived his apparent death at the end of the 1976 film, but that just opens up a whole other can of worms about how he survived being shot up and then falling from the top of the World Trade Center. Despite being called King Kong Lives, King Kong obviously dies in the end of the film.The poster depicts King Kong in Godzilla-size, battling a bunch of tanks and helicopters that are way smaller than he is, but he isn't that big in the actual movie and is nearly about the size of the tanks themselves.Having returned to Borneo, Lady Kong lives peacefully with her son in the jungle. Col Nevitt as he dies slowly while nearby a military base on a farm where Lady Kong gives birth to his infant son as Kong reaches out to touch his son just before dying. The jailbreak is then successful as Kong has survived the fall, leading him to break his mate out.Īfter being followed, attacked, and shot by the military, Kong kills Lt. They discover that Lady Kong is pregnant with Kong's offspring. They soon discover that Kong's artificial heart is beginning to give out, forcing them to attempt a jailbreak. The transfusion and the heart transplant are a success, but Kong escapes along with Lady Kong.Īrchie Nevitt is then called in with his men to hunt down and kill the two apes as Lady Kong is eventually captured alive by Nevitt's troops and imprisoned, which Kong then falls from a cliff and is presumed dead. Mitchell brings her to the institute to use her blood for King Kong's operation. Hank 'Mitch' Mitchell travels to Borneo as he captures a giant female ape who is dubbed 'Lady Kong'.

However, he has lost so much blood that a transfusion is badly needed, and to complicate matters, Franklin says there is no species of ape or other animal whose blood type matches Kong's. After being shot down from the World Trade Center, it's revealed that Kong is still alive and is kept in a coma for about 10 years at the Atlantic Institute.

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