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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

A pretty ok movie with surprisingly good effects.I wasnt expecting much from this movie, I was actually expecting it to be bad, I wanted to laugh at what could possibly be terrible effects but its amazingly competent in that astpect, the komodo dragons are well done, specially the practical effects but the cgi is also decently looking for the time. However, everything else falls flat, the acting is not very good, the script has issues, as well as the editing but I would say that its overall very watchable.Something that I will give this movie is that at least the characters werent annoying, you dont see that in these kind of movies too often.

A dumb, by-the-numbers exercise in B-movie monster madness which has a poor script, a dumb plot, awful acting and uninteresting characters. What makes it worth watching, you may ask. The answer lies in the title: the Komodo dragons in the film are worthwhile. Animated by CGI in long-shot and with animatronics in close-up, these big and slimy creatures are never less than convincing and make worthwhile movie monsters. In fact I was very impressed with them, especially considering that this is a straight-to-video fodder after all which usually means below average effects work. But no, it's the reverse, the effects are fine and its just everything else that doesn't work out.This film screams cliché. Whether its characters walking about in the darkness shouting "who's there?" or all the minor, unimportant characters getting killed off first, this rehashes all the old monster movie staples of the past thirty years into a tired concoction. The first twenty minutes are sentimental tosh involving a traumatised young boy - if I wanted a psychological drama I would have watched one! The rest of the film is straightforward action punctuated by the arrival and departure of minor characters.The action involving the monsters is great and as is usual for me with a monster flick, I found myself rooting for the creatures over the badly-acting human folk. Their various deaths by impalement and a flare in the mouth seem unnecessarily sadistic and mean-spirited; I know the creatures were faked but this kind of animal snuff reminded me of an Italian cannibal flick. Then there's a total lack of a climax, in which action is ripped off from the end of JURASSIC PARK and a guy survives being immersed in a pool of exploding petrol without so much as a singe. It's that kind of lame-brained film. Watch it for the cool effects; switch off for everything else.

Filled to overflowing with one red herring after another, Komodo was the sort of "seen-it-all-before" monster movie where the viewer could plainly foresee what was coming their way long before it actually happened.With a movie like Komodo, you can bet that (from start to finish) the viewer would never be asking themselves such things as - "Gee! I wonder what's going to happen next!?" Yes. Komodo (with its $15 million budget) had some pretty decent production values (even though some of the effects looked really fake) - But its story was nothing but pure monster-movie cliché right from the word "Go!". Believe me, Komodo's predictability actually got to the point of being a total embarrassment in no time flat.Implausibility also lost Komodo some very serious points. I mean, for one to actually believe that such a ferociously big creature as this one (with such a ravenous appetite) could go around completely unnoticed for as long as it did (20 years) the viewer would really have to be certified ding-a-ling.

the story has been already reviewed excellent by IMDb.com itself and many users so let's jump to the funny part: what the hell makes the movie 10 star worthy to me? Well, first i'm in love with the movies (including the bad ones). as long a film entertains me, it gets his 10 points...Period. Oh and 'komodo' entertained me a lot. If you like animal creature features, i recommend 'jaws' or 'komodo'. If you like horror, i recommend 'the exorcist' or 'komodo'. If you like comedy, i recommend 'some like it hot' or 'komodo'...fill in some genre and cinematic epic of choice...but serious, 'komodo' is a great creature feature, done with love, packed with action,adventure&comedy and kids can watch it too, because there's no blood&guts.this is for the *boo,b-movie trash* screamers: the entire look of the movie doesn't looks cheap in anyway, neither the great special effects nor the superb cinematography) and my question to the studio lobby: why couldn't you bring such movies (or some of the other titles named above) to the big screen anymore? it's a shame...