Am I Missing Something?

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This TV movie is OK. It has a nice background music and the performances weren't bad either especially from Michelle Borth as Dr. Sara or Michael Pare as Captain Mike. And the special effects are passable too but what's with these mutants? They move so slow and thus affect the pace of the movie. If you're gonna eat the humans, just get to it and save our time! That's what annoyed me about the movie, the pace at times is quite a torture. Most of the time, the characters engage in lot of talk on how to escape from these creatures or the military who wants to destroy the island rather than the action which we expect more. I still like to watch such movies cause they're fantasy or escapist cinema and is a nice way to relax. More mutants or zombies for moi :)

You know, I do actually sit down and watch these movies. Not even for the "maybe, just maybe one might be a good movie" because even though I have heard otherwise with a couple of these movies - To me they are the modern day version of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. You know what to expect from the title - some campy fun that mocks itself when intentionally making a bad movie.Okay so the set-up is so stock they might as well have taken old footage to tell it. Reporters go to a mysterious island to uncover a science experiment. They find a giant Cobra and Komodo Dragon and they must get to a downed chopper before the military bombs the island.So here's my biggest complaint - It's BORING! It feels like it's playing it straight when for me - that's the LAST thing I want to see these movies for. Give me more chainsawing sharks in mid air and surf one down to the ground and surviving please! That's why I prefer movies like the Sharknado series and Sharktopus - They know they're sh#t! So they take advantage of all they can to deliver some of the most intentionally goofy crap to get a laugh.But on that it has all the right ingredients to make a movie on par with the aforementioned movies. The acting for this movie sucks right across the board to the point of hilarity, it was no surprise when I found out one of them has a career in porn. The effects are on par with N64 cut-scenes (although I might be harsh on N64 cut-scenes). So in theory this combination could have worked.But another thing that doesn't is the title. The Komodo and the Cobra don't fight unless you count the couple of seconds near the end. I think we see them rarely - Oh yeah! because the acting was so riveting we needed to see more of that! It just has too many problems to really live up to what I was expecting. Maybe I might find another movie of which I would enjoy the stupidity of, like Sharknado but at the end of the day, this is just a forgettable mess.

Watched this film with friends, got drunk, cool evening!The story takes place on some random island inhabited by a giant Komodo and a supersized, swimming Cobra. A group of people, including an alcoholic sea captain and a few bimbos, one of which is a scientist, end up being stuck on this island with nowhere to run.What I found most enjoyable about this movie was the utter lack of the following: script, good acting and realism (apart from the giant creatures of course).I you are the sort of person who enjoys seeing a giant komodo run after a chick with baywatch-size knockers, this film is for you. Otherwise, you might find this movie to be somewhat of an offense to your intellect.(By the way, Jay Andrews (Wynorski or whatever this guys name is) did another film, Shockwave, with the exact same scenario, except that the cobra and komodo were replaced by alien robots, good stuff).

Another laughably lame and senseless low-budget sci-fi TV presentation… but actually its kind of amusing… kind of… in a passably undemanding way. Am I being soft? I don't know why they come up with these titles. Yes there's a komodo. And yes there's a cobra. However what's the deal with 'versus' in between? Sure they do come to blows… in only two sequences (one recapping an incident and the other being the dodgy climax) and quite boring exchanges I might add. The get-up is the same old routine of a scientific experiment getting out of hand on a secluded island (no dinosaurs about), and some innocent bystanders (environmentalists hoping to expose animal testing) getting caught up in it. This sees a komodo dragon and cobra becoming massive in statue with the government soon wanting to destroy any sort of the evidence (including witnesses) of its existence by blowing up the island. So this leaves the survivors racing against time to find a way off. The prominent staples existed of awful video game CGI, hack script, few dingy sets (although the tropical island setting was easy on the eyes), throwaway characters (but I found the performances faired up), lifelessly tacky thrills (which for some reason kept using the same repetitive shot of the victim just standing there in terror… which implied I'm waiting, please eat me now, I'm not going anywhere and eventually they were swallowed whole… well almost as it seemed to always take a second gulp to finish them off or just save the hassle by stupidly squashing them) and a very hysterical edge with some sort of wretch message amongst the acts of survival. Director Jim Wynorski seems to be on cruise control throughout. Michael Paré has fun with his gruff dialogues and Michelle Borth added much needed sparks. Renee Talbert is there to pout a lot, quite successfully too.