Komodo

I've loved this movie since I was a kid. Glad I found it

Great movie good condition...

This movie is full of cliches and full of itself, although the premise is no stupider than "Jurassic Park" with an aging hippie in a van dropping smelly eggs in the middle of nowhere. Of course several years later the eggs have hatched and this island with apparently one vacation home and a huge oil refinery on it are covered with these things. The dragons eat Kevin Zegers' parents and dog, and he is dutifully traumatized. Here is my first warning: get ready for about 45 minutes of Zegers staring blankly into space. A good looking psychologist (Jill Hennessy) and a female relative of Zegers (whose relationship to the boy is a bit unclear) take the kid back to the island under some ridiculous theory of mental therapy. Needless to say, the komodos are still there and chase everyone all over the place for a while, and get a couple of snacks along the way.The oil company, which is evil of course, plots to get rid of the visitors. There are subplots involving a wrongly accused biologist, komodo saliva (the movie has excellent dragon drool effects), and evil Australians. Interestingly, despite the presence of two attractive leading characters, there is no romance in the film.The plot is fairly implausible, but despite that and other shortcomings (like the extremely loud, annoying, and omnipresent musical score) there are good points about "Komodo." By far the best thing going for the movie are very good computer generated images of the dragons themselves. The dragons are actually a combination of hand puppets, robots, life size puppets, and computer generated images. A couple of the puppet shots look a bit hokey, but in general the lizards look excellent. My favorite computer generated lizard shot was the komodo trying to get into the back of the moving Volvo station wagon. Fans of creature films will like this movie for the effects if for nothing else. The acting isn't Oscar caliber, but it is consistent and generally well done (except the hyper over-the-top evil Australian oil executive) with no major complaints. I will complain about the script, though. There are moments of good dialogue in the film, but then there are passages that are so stiff and cliche ridden as to make even a B-movie connoisseur blush, like the "culture medium" quote of my title, a passage which got more convoluted (and full of improperly used scientific terms) as the scene progressed, although Billy Burke did a decent job throughout the film, even with lines this silly.There are a few extras, such as a "Making of Komodo" short, which accounts for a one star deduction in my rating. The Director, Michael Lantieri (a special effects wizard) seems like a nice guy with a good grasp of filmmaking, but the Producers seem really self-important and pompous. First, Executive Producer Devesh Chetty makes the assertion that the film is not a creature feature, but is a sophisticated psychological thriller, and then Producer Tony Ludwig has the nerve to say "It's probably close to what Hitchcock had always liked to do." Uh, no. It is not at all what Hitchcock ever did or aspired to do. Get real.There is another documentary on komodos and on the computer generation process (called "Maximum Fear") which was fairly interesting. Also included is a photo gallery, cast biographies, a game of some sort (which I did not look at), a trivia game, and a "Komodo Facts" section. In other words, there are a lot of extras for a B-movie DVD.Although this movie is totally implausible (komodos don't live in South Carolina, and most biologists don't know how to fly a helicopter) and has a very uneven script the actors are generally good, and for fans of monster movies, it is decent, mindless entertainment. I would have given the film four stars without the self-important commentary from the Producers in the extras.

A classic nature horror movie from my childhood. I grew up watching this on Sci-fi channel along other classic animal horror movies that have become forgotten gems of the genre. These movies are always a blast to watch. Combining adventure thrills with heart pounding terror. A young boy's family disappears on an off the coast each leads his doctor, aunt and two hunters to search for the answers only to uncover that the island has been taken over by very hungry Komodo Dragons. These reptiles always fascinated me growing up. And this film shows you what a komodo is all about.Think Jurassic Park meets The birds.

The Komodo Dragon has fascinated me since I was a child, & continues to fascinate me as a adult!!! I recently learned that their saliva is no more full of bacteria than the average 5 year old human. The tendencies for septicemia & infection are more do to the tropical atmosphere & bacteria filled water any open wounds would be susceptible to. They have recently discovered that they are venomous though, they have poison glands that inject several protein based toxins that cause a myriad of problems ending in shock, paralysis or death! They also can reproduce Parthanogenticaly! Females denied the presence of males have hatched fertile egg's on their own!!! The hatchlings tended to be all male this is believed to be a survival mechanism rarely seen in large reptiles. I have a nice collection of animal v.s. man movies & was delighted to add this to the collection. I don't like to give spoilers so I will just say this is a great action adventure with good acting & special effects. If you enjoy the primal struggle of man against ferocious animals than this is a smart entertaining bit of fun!!! I have man against Killer Apes, Whales, Sharks, Bears, Lions, Snakes , Crocodiles, Ants & Bees, Boar's & Spiders so how could I pass on one of the animal kingdoms most interesting top predator's!!! A venomous lizard 10ft long & 300lbs...that's larger than all the big cats except the Lion & Tiger!!! Most scientist say the Komodo Dragon is so big because of Island Gigantism, why when most animals suffer from Island Dwarfism? I wonder if in a more comfortable habitat if Megalania is waiting to make a come back out of the genome of the Komodo Dragon? If your into these creature feature action survival films Amazon.com has this increasingly harder to find gem priced just right to add to your collection!!!

Some yahoo dumps a few komodo eggs on an island. The island in question is occupied by an oil company that doesn't mind polluting the local environment. There's also a vacation home that a small family uses during the summers. The komodo population increases as the food source dwindles. It isn't long before a boy and his dog show up looking like meals on wheels. Unfortunately for this boy (Kevin Zegers), his dog was only the hors d'oeuvre, his parents became the main course. Fast forward to whenever, to a tug of war between a psychiatrist (Jill Hennessy) and the boy's aunt (Nina Landis) as to who has the better treatment: coddling the boy or taking him back to the scene of the crime to force him to face his demons. The third option is a mental institution. I think the third option would have provided a better alternative considering that a trip back to the island causes the deaths of not a few people. The komodo are still hungry and can't built rafts, having their next meal(s) show up on cue was definitely in their best interest.I will say the komodo are impressive looking (part CGI, part animatronics). The plot though, is a bit generic. It's not helped by inconsistent acting skills and stereotypical characters. Still, there is enough excitement, and those terrifically misunderstood komodo, to make this an old favorite watched many times.Definitely my favorite-favorite-favorite komodo movie.

Komodo is about a boy whose family gets eaten by giant Komodo dragons. He then goes on to forget this and put into care. That is until an unfeasibly attractive female psychiatrist decides that the only way to `cure' him is to return to the island where his parents (oh, and dog) disappeared to see if it will jog his memory.Much of the first half of the film is the characters wandering round the island, waiting for the boy to remember that there's man-eating Komodo dragons here. Then, at last, the man-eating Komodo dragons attack and start eating everyone. At that point, the boy says, "Oh, by the way, there are man-eating Komodo dragons here. Didn't I mention it?" But it's kind of too late by then. Besides, you'll have guessed which characters will and won't survive the man-eating Komodo dragons within about 0.8 of a second of them opening their mouths.Also, there are some henchmen on the island. Who are they henchmen for? Does it matter? They're there to get eaten. In fact, I think they bathed in barbeque sauce (or whatever man-eating Komodo dragons add to their human meals to spice them up a little) before they came. Add to it an unfeasibly attractive man on the island to add a bit of love interest and you get a film that a man-eating Komodo dragon could probably write himself (albeit with a greater depth of characterisation and better acted).I like B-movies and I enjoy daft monster-munching films. However, there's just something pretty lame about this one. The man-eating Komodo dragons are mainly CGI and you can tell there's really a green-screen behind them every time you see them, the acting is below par even for a B-movie and you'll have to be pretty bored to really enjoy this.Deep Rising, Shark Night, Piranha - all totally stupid monster movies and yet, at the same time, great fun. Sadly, Komodo can't be added to that list.

No surprises that this is a bit daft. Komodo Dragon eggs ditched on 'Emerald Island' off the coast of South Carolina, forward 19 summers later and word of these large reptiles has not yet reached the mainland or indeed the parents of the young fella who are chowed off screen by said beasties.Young fella has PTSD as a result and his psychiatrist thinks a bit of radical exposure therapy is in order and carts him from his bed on the mainland to bring him back to the island and house where his parents were killed (or missing presumed dead as the film outlays) She doesn't see fit to have any particular plan of action such as having a phone should 'therapy' not go well on this remote island, a bit off considering the vulnerable status of her patient. I did once have the dubious pleasure of seeing a large number of Komodo Dragons once tear into a deer and it is a rather messy experience but nonetheless there is only the barest remenant of a bloodstain at the scene to suggest foul play until the nasty lizards turn up again to dine on the new arrivals (psychiatrist, patient and his aunt)There are also two other blokes on the island employed by the evil oil corporation charged with eradicating the lizards on the quiet before anyone discovers they are even there. However they are more concerned with the uproar that will be created should they be exposed for killing these endangered reptiles as opposed to exposure for them covering up all the people the Dragons killed and ate for 19 years, so just in case the evil boss wants these chaps to kill the psychiatrist et al also.The twosome aren't so beastly though and they all team up apart from the boy who disappears (lucky him) into a field before turning up again at the end. Fortunately the psychiatrist is better at lizard battling than psychiatry so at least she is of some use. There's some quite boring attempt at relaying back stories of characters, some ok footage of lizards pretending to be rotters but it's all a bit daft and slightly boring with long periods of not much going on.

well worth a watch a teenage boy returns the the island where his parents were killed by komodo dragons along with his nurseand others only to confront the same nightmare which turns in to a fight fro survival well worth a watch

Enjoyed this film having Billy Burke in it was the reason I bought it he didn't disappoint it had a decent story line , plenty of action & of course monsters . I was pleasantly surprised !

I saw this film a while ago and enjoyed it so bought the dvd.