[floatr][/floatr]SXSW Review: "The King of Kong"
I'm utterly amazed at how a few astute filmmakers can take a story so slight, so silly and so trivial ... and turn it into a 90-minute documentary that's as fascinating as something that Ken Burns put together. Yes, The King of Kong is a documentary about bragging rights among video game geeks -- a topic so nerdy I hesitate to even mention how fascinated I was by the flick's subject matter -- but it's also as compelling, colorful and entertaining as any of the "human interest" documentaries of the past five years...Suffice to say it's a long and winding road to the title of Kong King, and director Seth Gordon captures all the whole damn story in all its geeky glory...more...
Read another glowing review here. The film has played several festivals and is set for a summer theatrical release. Trailer below:
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