Most critics agree: the dialog and acting in King Kong weren't very good.
However, there is some kind of special effect in almost every scene.
For 1993, this was very unusual.
It looked like an expensive movie, but it cost only $600,000 to make.
(To compare, the 2005 King Kong by Peter Jackson cost over $200 million to make.)
The Filmmakers made many of the FX scenes in the original King Kong in two days.
Today, similar scenes in modern films might take two weeks to create.