10 Movies That Didn't Know When To End

3. King Kong (2005)

Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong deserves your admiration, but its staggering 187-minute runtime is yet another reminder that the director is probably incapable of producing a film of a reasonable length now.

This wouldn't be so bad if Jackson actually justified it, but like so many of his films, he wastes too much time on verbose preambles that should probably be relegated to DVD extras (oh, he's got them as well). It's just over an hour before we first see Kong in the film, and though some build-up is sensible, an hour is a lot of time investment considering nothing significant really happens.

Sure, the action scenes all dazzle once Kong shows up, but the film could easily have had a whole 30-40 minutes chopped and not suffered in the slightest. The length of the movie regularly meaning this one stands a little dusty on our Blu-ray shelf, when it probably otherwise would have more chance of being regularly chosen for a watch.