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Curse of the Komodo

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Absolutely the worst plot - OK, maybe tied with Solarbabies as the worst plot ever.

So let's get this straight. You're a genetic scientist, you get your secret governmental funding from some upstart Navy commander who pays for your project out of petty cash and that empty coffee can next to the bottled water, you create giant carnivores to feed the world, left your daughter trapped on a deserted island with afore mention beasts for a meeting that you could have used your 1920's era two way radio for, power the "electric fence" and your only defense with a Honda generator the size of a shoebox, just happen to keep extra guns and explosives in that old shack a few miles away, know how to assembly any weapon but cant hit the broad side of a barn, just happen to keep some grain alcohol on hand for those downtrodden commando helicopter pilots that stop by for brunch, and you cant wait to sacrifice yourself to save the love of your life.

Right...... It all becomes so clear now.

This film stinks, there is just no way around it. Nonetheless, I had to give it two stars for incredible creativity in the face of overwhelming adversity. Truly, this is an amalgam of about five different concepts all put together in a blender. The plots concern (in rough order of importance): a military operation headed by a brilliant scientist and his daughter/niece (there seems some confusion on that point in the script) to grow giant komodo dragons the size of school buses alternately for military operations or as a food source to feed the world's hungry (Ponder.); a bunch of dimwitted casino robbers who serve to chew the scenery and in turn be chewed by the komodos; a government conspiracy plot having to do with bombing civilians; a couple of would-be love stories that go exactly nowhere; and a confusing object lesson about the importance of good transmission maintenance in helicopters.

Of course this mostly takes place on a deserted island inhabited by CGI lizards, and takes us past brief glimpses of beautiful waterfalls and pointless nudity that is so utterly predictable, yet illogical, as to be totally laughable. The computer generated lizards aren't the worst I have seen, honestly; and to be frank, some of the acting isn't too bad (I'm thinking of the scientist and the helicopter pilot here.)

The film is entertaining in a silly, B-movie manner. It is really not high in production values (I am especially fond of the use of obvious stock footage and sticks with lights on them representing an electric fence) but is fun in a quirky, schlocky kind of way.

This is a pretty solid monster movie, with good characters, competent acting, and passable special effects. It's about a couple of scientists and their busty daughter (and a couple of other komodo-chow guys) working on a government project to reduce starvation. Although it's not well explained, this apparently involves creating giant komodo dragons. I guess if they release these things in third world countries, the number of starving people will go down. They're stationed on an island, and are joined by a small band of criminals (one of whom is also very busty - what are the odds???) who crash land in a helicopter.

The komodo proceeds to hunt them, as they scramble to keep the generator running to power the electric fence. All in all, the action moves along fairly well, though it does get a bit slow towards the end. Although I've only seen the edited for TV version, it looks as if the R-rated version has both busty babes topless. My one complaint about this movie is that the camera really needed to linger more over the babes involved. It's not like there wasn't ample opportunity. One neat little joke is how the military got the idea to make giant komodos in the first place - the commander was watching Dinosaur Island - another Wynorsky movie.

Towards the end, the military decides to destroy the island, to wipe out any evidence of the project. As we've seen in previous scenes, the island is at least several miles across, but the military only sends two planes. I'm pretty sure the actual bombing footage was lifted from another film, as what gets hit looks an awful lot like a village in Vietnam. But hey, that's just the icing on the cake for us B-movie fans.

I'd call this a perfectly satisfying waste of a couple hours. And that's all I ask from my entertainment.

This film, and it's "sequel" Komodo vs. Cobra, should be seen together. It raises the humor value. No, they aren't great films, or even very good, but they do have quite a bit of humor. Take Paul Logan for example. I recognized him right off the bat as a porn actor. In this film he's a crook, Drake. In the sequel, he's Major Frank, a short-lived victim. Glori-Anne Gilbert and Ted Monte are also in both films. And of course the house is in both, along with the poorly done cgi(?) Komodos.

Know what I think? I think they took a crew to Hawaii, made a couple of films and stayed around to do some porn as well. Just my opinion.

The best thing in KVC was Michael Pare. What a great voice, and oddly, he was there for comic relief as well as heroism.

Anyway, both films are about a 3, just for the humor, T&A (in this one) and comedy. There are identical lines between the military general and his foil in both films. In conclusion, good Saturday fare, and at a decent price.

Pegleg

There is an island where scientists are running studies and tests in the hope of increasing the world's food supply. What makes the scientists dumb? 1) They are doing the experiments for the Department of Defense. 2) To reach their goals they are creating giant Komodo dragons (one of nature's greatest consumers). 3) A military test is run on the island and they are defeated by the dragons and the scientists say the experiment is not ready for that stage (how does this increase food supplies?).

The general in charge has to make some tough decisions regarding the project. The scientists in charge return to the island (why weren't they there to begin with?). To complicate things, some civilians in the form of casino robbers arrive on the island. They robbed an unusual casino, one that was thriving but had a parking lot completely empty except for their getaway car.

The Komodos are in charge of the island, there is no fuel for the electric fence (really just a series of sticks with lights on top) and the scientist's daughter is also his niece (small glitch in the script there). The trick is to get off the island without being eaten, being infected by the Komodo's saliva, or getting blown up by the military.

One thing that I will say in favor of the movie and that is the ending was better than I expected. The real ending that is and not the closing teaser. This one is really only for film gourmands or possibly at a party.

This movie is not about a giant lizard. It's about how endless the world's supply of bullets is.

When we are first introduced to the giant komodo, two characters start to shoot at it. Then a third character arrives and joins in. Eventually they get in a truck and drive away, shooting at the komodo as it pursues them. The komodo gets bored and leaves. That night the komodo attacks them and they shoot it. The komodo eats one and leaves. When the characters leave their fortress to get to a helicopter they get attacked by the komodo. They shoot at it. The komodo eats one, kills another, and leaves. Then, when they reach the chopper, the komodo attacks. Guess what they do?

ok...

LISTEN MOVIE PEOPLE! You have been shooting nonstop at this thing for the past hour and a half, and it doesn't even seem to mind! So when you start shooting at it now, I sincerely doubt it is going to do ANY THING! This movie was boring not because of plot or storyline, but because most of it is just people standing around shooting at a CG monster. Yay!

By the way, what is the deal with bad movies and actresses with strange accents? Is that some thing they teach at film school or is it just an annoying trend in films? One character in this movie goes from having an Australian accent to an American one to a Dutch one and then back to being Australian. One female character doesn't have a weird accent persay, but she looks like Hugo Weaving reliving his role from "Priscella, Queen of the Desert." Oh yeah, and why were all the women blonde?

But I digress, this movie is just one big waste of bullets. Heck, they even waste a perfectly good .44 automatic bullet in the end when the general kills himself. Tsk tsk!

This is one of the very few flicks that I know that contain a Komodo Dragon as the monster. It was quite good for its standards. Like many people say in their reviews, if you do not expect to much you might enjoy this kind of movies. But one of the many things I do not like in these kind of movies in general its the out of place nudity. I do not really see the need to put this kind of stuff in these films. And even though there are many other issues, I'm not going to list them (maybe because I would not finish). As for the CGI, its not the best but I have seen worst.

Its an unoriginal film with a few fun features. 1. Giant Killer Lizards 2. Large Island full of (See One) 3. Lots of Corny Action. a fun filled sci-fi cheapy.

Usually when I wait a long time to see a movie my expectations build up so much that I end up hating it when I finally see it.

(Somewhere along the line I got the impression this was more-or-less a zombie movie featuring a large Komodo dragon, and while there are some zombie-esque ...rabid... poisoned people... for lack of a better term, their part in the movie isn't that big.)

This time, in spite of waiting 18-19 months, I really enjoyed it. At the time I wasn't sure I even wanted to watch it. There's a lot more character depth than I normally expect from this kind of movie. There's some small details I liked too, like early on in the movie people actually RELOAD their guns.

I think the giant komodo dragon itself was very cute, but I think all giant reptiles are very cute, so that's not really saying much.

Admittedly, the movie could have worked without giant komodo dragons, rabid poisoned zombie people, etc. There's been many movies with sharks, many movies with crocodiles, and so on. I think komodo dragons could have been "milked" more before resorting to gimmicks like that. That's why I give the movie four stars. It's one of my favorite movies, but I can see it has a few obvious flaws.

Fake blondes, fake boobs, fake broad--and a realistic-looking reptile that's treated so unrealistically that the characters appear to be shooting at a theme-park dinosaur! Thousands of rounds are blasted at the behemoth without it sustaining a single nick. The firing goes on and on, as though the director is struggling to fill an allotted time frame. (Other snail-paced sequences include a bra-less, cavorting babe and a macho mesmerized by an overflying aircraft while a copter offers a quick sprint to survival.) The viewer's sympathies are bound to veer toward the beast, which somehow manages to gulp down the hapless without squirting out a drop of blood. And then there's the germ-zapped zombies who pop up like actors who stumbled onto the wrong set. The creators of this miserable flick should have let the mostly competent actors simply ad lib the whole production. Then, no doubt, the audience would have been spared the absurdity of an is-something-wrong? line in the midst of a life-or-death debacle!