King of the Lost World
King of the Lost World
| 13 December 2005 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
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!
Woodyanders 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.
HorrorMovieFan1983 Yes, I think he did with his television show "Lost" on ABC. The similarities are endless and obvious. The only differences are the characters names and the monsters. But, the storyline is almost identical. People crash on an island after their planes explodes into two pieces. There are only a few survivors who are focused on. These characters eventually die one by one. The island is also inhabited by some other group of people whose ship crashes on the island. They are immediately seen as the enemy to our main characters too. It just goes to show nothing in Hollywood is new. An idea is recycled again,again and again. This movie sucked,"Lost" sucks and so did Sir Athur ConenDoyle's book. THE END!