Komodo [DVD]

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.

Good product, fast delivery.

Fantastic show.