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King of the Lost World
In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. Now, the survivors must face a mysterious and hostile world inhabited by giant scorpions, dragons, and a simian beast that stands ten stories tall.
Release : | 2005 |
Rating : | 2.4 |
Studio : | The Asylum, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Bruce Boxleitner Sarah Lieving Rhett Giles Christina Rosenberg Steve Railsback |
Genre : | Drama Action Thriller Science Fiction |
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It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
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.
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!
A commercial airliner crashes in a remote Amazon jungle. The motley group of survivors find themselves in a strange and dangerous world populated by big deadly spiders, giant scorpions, winged reptiles, killer sentient vines, a lethal native tribe, and a fearsome towering ape. Director/co-writer Leigh Scott relates the absorbing premise at a steady, snappy pace, maintains an admirably serious tone throughout, and stages the thrilling action scenes with a reasonable amount of flair. Moreover, the sturdy cast all deliver solid and spirited performances: Bruce Boxleitner as the huffy, enigmatic Lt. Challenger, Rhett Giles as the stalwart, resourceful John Roxton, Jeff Denton as the likable, sensible Ed Malone, Sarah Lieving as plucky photographer Rita Summerlee, Christina Rosenberg as fidgety, foxy California babe Dana, Chriss Anglin as nasty native tribe leader Olo, Amanda Ward as pretty stewardess Natalie, Boni Yamagisawa as feisty native girl Tianka, and Thomas Downey as the jerky Reggie. Steve Railsback contributes an especially lively turn as the deranged Larry. Steve Parker's crisp cinematography and Ralph Rieckermann's robust, rousing score are both up to speed. Plus there's a decent smidgen of gore, a dab of tasty female nudity, and a welcome absence of both pretense and cheesy oneliners. Granted, the CGI creatures are really tacky and unconvincing, but that criticism aside this flick overall sizes up as one hell of an enjoyable romp.
What a dumb movie. The special effects were so horrible I started to think this was really just a 3rd grade class project. The creators decided to cast some moderately pretty women in this film to make up for the complete lack of acting, personality, or talent. I can only imagine the budget for this film being in the realm of some kid's allowance. An incredibly poorly-done "movie" based on an incredible story. If you don't have the budget or talent to do the original story justice, then hands off please. With series like Battlestar Galactica out there, I expect rental DVDs to be of at least decent quality. The giant ape was a joke, the scorpions were moronic, and those flying dragon things? Please. And how come the flight attendant mistook her own plane for a fighter jet?