Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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

This movie had the wrong title. It should be called "Toothpicks" Just about every woman in the film has toothpicks for legs. I didn't believe it either. This is okay, except their breasts are all huge and just don't conform to their bodies. A very odd look. Add to this that all the men look exactly alike (well, so do all the women), and it is just a confusing movie.First the things that worked: SOUND-I've been in the industry, and it is a common inside joke that sound people don't know what the H... they're doing. Here, they do. We now know where all the money went in this film (or where it deserved to go). BLOCKING-it is well blocked, characters are situated well. The director does seem proficient at this. SCENERY-Some good cutaways and some decent scenery. Not the best, but passable. The scenery won't bore you. LITTLE THINGS-Like the hero screaming in pain and agony instead of being the usual unbelievable hero we often see. A few little add ons like this made the movie a lot better than the usual corn meal.What didn't work: PEOPLE DELINEATION-Actally, a lot didn't work, but I'll narrow it down to the chief concerns. The people, as stated before, all looked alike. This is a common practice among modern movies (the last 30 years) and why such movies are inferior to older movies. You don't know what is happening to who or who is doing what. Utterly ridiculous. STORYLINE-I should give you the plot, if I knew what it was. It seems there are some plane wreck survivors and somehow they meet big animals and a big ape, as well as strange looking natives. It really isn't the worst storyline, but it was a bit corny. TOOTHPICK LEGS-I still have to say it. What is the deal with all these *toothpick legs attached to large breasts and narrow waists? It isn't unattractive, but it isn't sexy, either. Bizarre. THROWAWAY CHARACTERS-not as bad as some movies. But there were some "throwaway" characters who are written in as "deserving to die". It does get in the way of the escapism when the viewer becomes so cognizant of a writer playing God, instead of letting the story flow with some degree of Naturalism. DRAG-The movie, despite the action and monsters, just seems to drag very slow, while not really giving any character definition. The worst of both worlds. WE'VE SEEN IT ALL BEFORE-I think this phrase is self explanatory.There have been some remarks about special effects, but only a real dork is concerned about special effects. If you are one of these, I really don't think they are bad. In fact, they beat the goofy dork effects of the Star Wars 1-3 trilogy.A very average movie.

There has never been a proper film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyal's 'The Lost World' and it looks like there never will be. All have them have been low budget TV or straight to DVD movies. The most credible was the 2001 BBC version. So where do I begin with this little beauty? The acting? You can guess. It was cheesy and B movie'ish' which is exactly what you expect. Its almost like the film makers insist on bad acting to live up to the expectations of people who watch movies like this.I don't understand people who insist on loads of deaths. Why? The original 'Lost World' didn't have any deaths. But this one is rich in death. Characters are killed off left and right in ludicrous pointless ways. Some characters have so little screen time that when their time comes you are baffled because you have no idea who they are or what the hell they were doing to warrant such a killing. Listening to this is gonna cause your ears to vomit. The music is this horrible constant drone that feels like a sledge hammer headache. There is no accuse for such poor special effects. The monsters look like cartoons and bad cartoons at that. Kong is just bad enough to be funny he looks like something a four or five year old might draw only it would be better. So after reading all this and you still want to watch it go ahead but prepare to be disappointed to the max.

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?