It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This is a real piece of garbage. The Mill Creek version is nearly unwatchable, the print is so bad. I don't see anything remastering this Italian mess for a long time. Take a revenge minded guy searching for his betrayer, mad scientists doing experiments on Gorillas (really the gentlest of the great apes, next to Orangutans, Chimps would be a much better choice), add in a topless girl raised by apes (Tarzan she isn't) and what do you have? A real mess that I can hardly admit to watching. Just a really crummy movie. Barely above say, The Creeping Terror (which at least made me laugh) or Manos, the Hands of Fate. For the curiosity seeker only. I'm surprised this hasn't shown up on Svengoolie. As another reviewer said, "No Kong, No Island,", I'll add "No movie!"

*Spoiler/plot- The King of Kong Island, 1968 Jungle natives are terrorized by a crazy scientist work on experiments between gorillas and humans brains.*Special Stars- Marc Lawrence, Brad Harris *Theme- Jungle areas often hold danger in many forms.*Trivia/location/goofs- Italian, microphone boom in the shot during the cave, mind-controlled gorillas, and mad scientist scenes.*Emotion- A rather crazy film, NOT saved by the rest of the film's good science fiction plot. Even the veteran Marc Lawence can't save this film. It's very bad and a waste.

While there's something for everyone (almost) in this action sci-fi, it's unlikely to be your most memorable movie experience. Amiable he-man Brad Harris stars as a mercenary soldier who's double crossed by his medic companion (Lawrence) in a bungled heist, but survives to seek revenge upon the mad doctor now experimenting on gorillas with mind control programming.Aside from the shirtless Harris, flexing his body-built physique as he cavorts in a jungle pool, Tarzan style, there's also the scantily clad trio Esmerelda Barros (as a fabled native girl accompanied by the ubiquitous cheeky chimp), Adriana Alben (as Harris' sultry, former flame) and Ursula Davis as the short-shorts wearing pawn in Lawrence's diabolical plan to lure Harris to his lair for the purposes of programming him for mind control. There's a great dancing scene to showcase Harris' moves, a couple of violent ape attacks, some safari wildlife-spotting, and the promise of much more that never really eventuates. Like an early James Bond film meets "King Kong" or "Planet of the Apes", it has camp moments, but is mostly just clichéd and boring with an anti climax that's disappointing and uninspired.

King of Kong Island (1968) BOMB (out of 4) A mad scientist puts the brains of humans into the body of apes. On another part of the island a girl might be the long lost gorilla woman. This is an incredibly bad Italian production, which has to be one of the worst that country ever sent over to America. The title sticks out on a video store shelf but that's about the only thing going for this movie. The performances are all terrible and the dubbing is even worse. The film doesn't contain any of those "so bad it's good" laughs, which means you just have a lifeless film where suicide might be better than actually watching.