The Curse of the Komodo

2004
3| 1h32m| PG-13| en
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Genetically-engineered Komodo dragons have become ginormous creatures hunting people on a remote tropical island. A small group of scientists must stop the dragons before they escape the island and destroy the rest of the world.

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
TheCrowing13 My lord, who made this film. I don't understand if people want to make a low budget T.V. monster movie, why don't they show more monsters. There isn't enough in this film. They all focus on the humans acts to escape, which no one cares about. I'm not surprised that bout 3/4th's of this cast has most likely appeared in a porno. The only interesting thing I thought was amazing, were the random zombies that are thrown in as a side effect to the komodo's saliva. Lame? or super-amazing? hey there zombies can't get much cooler then that. The story is simple. People want to solve world hunger, government gets interested and gives them a komodo(s). They get big and eat people. Well a group of criminals are thrown in for a sub-plot that lasts around 30 sec. None of the actors are interesting and I often confuse this movie with "Komodo vs. Cobra", which is literally th exact same story but with cobras thrown in too. Special effects are average for a T.V. movie but I still feel they should be much better for the year the film was made. I swear this film was a porno but all the sex was removed and they kept one nude scene in then added more pointless dialog. 2/10
stumpmee77 Just to rip it apart. The attack of the komodos is the most exciting thing about this flick--as in attacks ones stomach for the gore. None of the usual laden down couple action here, thank God, but still the old crappy approach regarding women. Nothing more more than eye candy. None of the 4 women in this comes off really smart. The closest ones are the assistant to hero doctor and the survivor island gal who looks like a Jungle gal--& all 4 are--Can't any film limit this club med thing with the women to one girl? Can't there be Kathy Bates or Roseanne looking woman who is the heroine in these films--once?We do have one normal--looking, IMO an intelligent man (William Langlois) btw, his presence is the lone reason I give this film a 1 as all the rest are club med and/or very churlish. But come to think of it men are a given allowance to look old and at least one is seen on a Sci-Fi "originals" whereas not one woman central character looks past forty. & oh just remember the second overweight lout whose purpose is to inject a bit of a funny during the first 1/3 of the movie. Well, didn't work. The gore IS the only thing the works & when it comes there red flags waiving towards point of occurrence & what's left in the aftermath.I wholeheartedly agree with others about the CGI Komodos but believe it or not I've seen worse in Sci-Fi made films. But the guns on these beasts and the stupidity of those trapped on the island. Huh no one can't make an arrow out a good knife (there had to one in the house) to kill these big cretins?? Oh, how about attempting setting it on fire. Why the crappy bullets? I don't think a heap of bullets will bring those behemoth's down.The robbers sub-plot an the swim in the water scene rips whatever quality this farce could've possessed to shreds. Selfish criminals mucking things up is long since old & tired & this variation is definitely old & tired. The actress playing the moll I've seen in slightly better Sci-Fi movies; well, she's wasted here. And the swim scene--I cringed first looking at that scene! Get in the water which is part of the food chain not knowing why her and daddy have come to this island? Right. & need I mention the camera angles employed. Why not have a man do this for the Sci-Fi gals? Where's women's liberation?
Paul Andrews The Curse of the Komodo starts on an isolated island near Hawaii as an army special forces operation is secretly taking place which ends up with them all being killed by a huge genetically engineered Komodo. The army have gotten cold feet over the experiment & orders the project leader Professor Nathan Phipps (William Langlois) & his assistant Dr. Dawn Porter (Gail Harris) back to the island to destroy all evidence of the experiment that was designed to produce huge genetic mutations to used as weapons against the enemy... Meanwhile thieves Drake (Paul Logan), Tiffany (Melissa Brasselle) & Reece (Cam Newlim) make good their escape in a chopper after robbing a casino but they run into bad weather & their pilot Jack (Tim Abell) has to land anywhere he can & in one of the film only type coincidences they land on Komodo island. They meet up with Phipps his daughter Rebecca (Glori-Anne Gilbert) & Porter who are protected by armed guards Jason (Jay Richardson), Hanson (Ted Monte) & Blake (J.P. Davis). Things quickly spiral out of control as the huge Komodo begins to systematically eat everyone in sight, will any of them survive?Directed by Jim Wynorski as Jay Andrews The Curse of the Komodo is one awful creature feature & just a downright terrible film. The script by Steve Latshaw is predictably rubbish, the rules for this type of film aren't hard to follow are they? You have your isolated location & stranded monster food, there's the giant dinosaur, genetically engineered creature or alien or whatever to eat the cast members one-by-one & the corrupt military involvement to introduce lots of guns & weaponry, simple right? Well not to Mr. Latshaw & Wynorski as The Curse of the Komodo fails in every department, there isn't one positive thing I can say about this film. The character's are boring cardboard stereotypical clichés the least about whom the better. The Komodo barely does anything & why did the military create giant Komodo lizards in the first place? Maybe they could have genetically engineered a huge hamster or something docile & cuddly, it would have been easier to control if anything went wrong, right? The film is really slow, dull & very boring as it's over forty minutes before the Komodo even shows up (not counting the opening sequence). The attack scenes are dull, unexciting & repetitive as the giant Komodo just stands there as our cast of humans just shoot at it for what seems like ages as their guns never run out of ammo. I have an intense dislike for films like The Curse of the Komodo, it's boring, poorly written & it's a film of absolutely no redeeming qualities. If the military had no conscience about napalming the island why didn't they do that to start with instead of sending in two scientists? It would have saved a lot of time, trouble & pain for everyone involved especially us the poor viewer having to sit through this crap!Director Wynorski has made over sixty of these low budget horror/sci-fi films & to be fair he knows how to make a film, unfortunately he doesn't know how to make a good film. The special effects are terrible, the plotting is awful, the logic is absurd, it rips off various other films & as a whole The Curse of the Komodo is seriously crap. Forget about any sort of gore or violence, the Komodo only eats one person on screen & even then just to their legs.Technically the film isn't too bad but it's all rather bland & forgettable. The acting is pretty bad & I didn't think the women were good looking enough either, Anne Gilbert gets her breasts out but that's about it.The Curse of the Komodo is total rubbish, it provides no entertainment value whatsoever & there are far better creature feature films out there. This is not a sequel to & has nothing to do with the film Komodo (1999) which is far better than this. According to the IMDb Komodo Vs. Cobra (2005) directed by Wynorski is in post-production, I shudder at the mere thought of it.
brennakimi this may or may not include things considered to be spoilers so i'm warning you just in case. OK. it's a bad, cheap movie. it probably counts as a knock off of everything ever, including a nice nod to jurassic park's giant electrical fence. cause how better to contain large lizards but with a giant charged fence. but. it's hilarious. it has a casino heist, military intrigue, monsters, crazed scientists, zombies, boobies... it's a great movie if you're into b-films. bad writing, bad acting, cheap effects, lame jokes... but my is it complex and snazzy. clearly, the crew is trying to move from more adult films to a reasonably ordinary market with this film. i think it's a good crossover into evil dead territory. completely different subject matter but equally campy and fun. watch this in a marathon with cannibal women of the avocado jungle of death.