Leofwine_draca
KING OF THE LOST WORLD is, unsurprisingly, a rip-off of Peter Jackson's KING KONG put out by the team at The Asylum. It's as pitiful as you'd imagine, a cheap reworking of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD, featuring a quartet of explorers who crash land on a remote island when their plane develops a fault. Once there things turn into a lame version of KING KONG complete with bikini girls running around and some appallingly awful special effects. What with the wooden line delivery and general barrel-scraping feel, this is poor stuff indeed, and even some old-timers like Steve Railsback and Bruce Boxleitner do nothing to save it.
TheLittleSongbird
King of the Lost World is not the worst Asylum movie out there, there are definitely worse. That is not saying very much however because it is still a terrible movie. The opening scene was fun and set the tone of the film reasonably well, and the score is both intense and catchy. That is it for the good unfortunately. Although I was not expecting much in my quest to see whether The Asylum are capable of finding a good movie(so far I Am Omega, #1 Cheerleader Camp and When a Killer Calls are their best, and they are only decent, mixed-reception and average), I was determined to take things at face value and enjoy it for what it was, but sorry it was just too inept to make me do that. Technically King of the Lost World is a mess. The editing is choppy that it doesn't allow you to appreciate the dully lit but non-amateur settings, while the special effects are just terrible, there is a fair amount of them and every single one of them are crude. The ape itself is more goofy in look and manner than it is menacing. The script is childishly written and painfully unfunny, while the direction is flat and the story is dull, predictable and a choc-a-block of ridiculous scenes that you'd be here all night and probably about 500-600 words over the review word limit. The characters you just cannot engage with at all, they are not developed at all and just annoy the heck out of you. The acting is atrocious from almost all of the cast with one exception which is Steve Railsback who isn't in it anywhere near long enough to save it. So all in all, one big colossal failure. 2/10 Bethany Cox
class_e18
OK, currently I'm living in China, and I bought what I thought was Jurrasic Park 4...which I didn't think there was. Well, there isn't...at least not yet, Steven Spielberg is about to produce it in 2009 or 2010. So when I put this DVD in, to my surprise, the only dinosaurs I saw was stolen stock footage from Jurrasic Park 3 which they continued to play over and over again but without any real relevance to the story/plot.Now I noticed that the other comments on this page didn't mention anything about this stolen stock footage, so I guess I should feel lucky that the Chinese steal everything and sell it cheap too. Awesomely bad movie!
bigham78
I'm a big sci-fi fan who has a bad habit of sitting through just about any sci-fi movie once. This one was another in long line of those movies I should stop after the first five minutes. This movie is beyond terrible it's so bad. The acting and I use that term very lightly is downright awful. This is one of the worst scripts I've ever seen and this is very lame attempt to cash in on King Kong. The big sorry looking poor CGI ape in this movie is pathetic. You also see all of about two sorry minutes of him. This is trash and Sci-fi channel is really scrapping the bottom of barrel showing this crap. I loved the old big white movie far better then this crap. I can't believe someone got money to make this and I'm shocked Bruce Boxleitner is so hard up cash he take this sorry role.
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