King Kong vs Touching the Void

Touching the Void has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.9/10 for King Kong). Touching the Void is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 3h 8m. Touching the Void is the older of the two (2003 against 2005). Both are action, adventure, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

King Kong posterKing Kong2005 VS Touching the Void posterTouching the Void2003
King KongTouching the Void
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 7.6/10
Year20052003
Length3h 8m1h 46m
GenresAction, Adventure, DramaAction, Adventure, Documentary, Drama
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorPeter JacksonKevin Macdonald
Main castJack Black, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell, John SumnerNicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Ollie Ryall, Joe Simpson, Richard Hawking

Synopsis

King Kong

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

Touching the Void

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

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