Best movie of this year hands down!

How sad is this?

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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

CURSE OF THE KOMODO is in fact not a sequel to Michael Lantieri's KOMODO from 1999 (with the latter being a much better film, actually). Being aware that CURSE OF THE KOMODO was directed by Jim Wynorski, I got exactly what I expected from this movie: a so bad it's good monster-flick with a high cheese & camp factor.Casually, I'd like to mention that the comment posted by JaywriterXIII contains some interesting topics raised after viewing this film which are simply dead-on and I experienced some of the same things (and more) while watching this flick (so read it, folks).The theme of the film is one of those "experiments with animals gone awry"-ones. On an island a few scientist have caused komodos to mutate and grow way beyond their normal size. On top that they've become highly aggressive making humans no longer stand at the top of the food-chain. Like if that isn't bad enough, it also seems that when one touches the slime produced by the komodos, he/she will turn into a rabid zombie, capable of spreading the infection. Meantime, three criminals who robbed a casino had to make an emergency landing on the island with their helicopter. Things become even more worse when the military decides to pull the plug on the whole project. You guessed it, this flick goes way over the top.The komodos themselves are poorly made static CGI-creatures. Their roar is as standard as they come. I personally had no idea those over-sized lizards could roar at all. Maybe they also have mutated vocal chords. They also appear to be completely bulletproof, 'cause standing next to them and emptying your gun doesn't seem to hurt them. The bizarre thing is that they behave like my cat does: when I stand next to her, talk to her and throw things at her, she doesn't move. She just keeps standing there, occasionally roaring "mriiaauw" at me. But when I take a piece of rope and start running, she suddenly comes chasing me, wanting to bite everything that moves. The komodos behave in the exact same way. Bizarre.I'm not gonna go into the acting, 'cause over-all it's as bad as it gets. The lines, dialogues and actions throughout this movie are extremely predictable or excel in utter stupidity and often are contradictory. For example: Prof. Nathan repeatedly states that komodos don't like heat and only hunt at night. Though most of the attacks occur during the day. And this is one of my favorites: When their helicopter crash-lands, the three criminals start scouting the island. When they stumble upon an abandoned car from the scientists, one of them says: "This is our ticket outta here"! They're on a friggin' island, for Christ's sake. They're gonna do what? Drive it to the bottom of the ocean and emerge with it on the other side? Way to go scriptwriter!I was also wondering, with them being scientists experimenting on an island and all, where's the lab? No test-tubes, no microscopes, no nothing. But they did have that fancy blue-flashing fence and an expensive-looking mansion. One more thing I learned from CURSE OF THE KOMODO (and from PTERODACTYL and a zillion other horror-movies): when a blonde bimbo sees water (as in a lake or a river) she will always immediately take her cloths off and go swimming. Always. In this case, the blonde cutie-pie was Melissa Brasselle, and I feel a little bit sorry for the lady. Her character clearly was inserted in the story for only two reasons: switching the secured/emergency power button on/off and... showing her boobies (and boy, what a pair they were).I will end this "review" on a positive note. There's one jump-scene in the movie that actually worked. It took place in the cabin were they decided to spend the night. I really jumped up from my sofa. I was amazed that a movie that's the opposite of scary managed to pull that off. And I also kinda liked the last shot of the movie. Maybe typical, but still...There's only one reason to recommend this movie, and that's for its un-intentional comedy aspects. So if you don't have the right sense of humor, you must avoid this at all costs. Actually, there's a second reason to watch this: it's a great really bad b-monster-movie flick.

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.

I just have to comment on this movie! I actually watched it with 2 of my friends and we couldn't help laugh at every single scene in it. Its a disaster as an action movie, but as a comedy this movie is an A-class one...There are just too many plot holes, you don't know where to start, and the komodo looks much like a clay lizard incorporated in the movie using stop motion animation. It just runs after the characters and they keep shooting at it (with unlimited clips in their guns by the way). When the characters are stuck in a corner, it will stand at a distance and enjoy the line of fire as bullets Pierce its scales, but if they are running away and shooting at it, it continues to run after them for some reason and the bullet holes never appear in its scales yet again for some reason and then a zombie appears at the end of the movie and you have no idea where it came from or what the hell its doing in the movie!!....Just take it from me, if you are ridiculously bored or drunk, gather some friends and watch this movie....for the laughs, and for the breasts scene!