Very rarely is a film so red carpet that you feel your price of admission was simply not enough. King Kong is one of those movies. There is more eye candy in this film than in any Lord of The Rings movie, and so much end-to-end action that it's a powerful watch throughout.

Peter Jackson is more about astounding us visually and giving us a solid story than anything else. The film has a slow start, in which we are introduced in detail to the characters and what is soon to come. Jackson almost takes just the first forty-five minutes to get a full, hearty plotline and subplots going. When we are introduced to Ann Darrow's (Watts) dilemma, and Carl Denham's (Black) preparation, the movie kicks it into edge-of-your-seat mode.

Besides the breathtaking visuals, the atmosphere and cinematic feats in King Kong are nothing short of superb. Every constituent that you see on screen is woven together carefully, and the finished product is simply dazzling.

I'm not afraid to say dazzling, because that's exactly what it is. And funnily enough, that's probably what Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace would have wanted from their story when they first wrote it in 1933.