Curse of the Komodo

Curse of the Komodo (2003): Well gang, it’s another big ‘thing’ movie. Instead of large ants, snakes, or sabretooth tigers, this time we get enlarged bullet proof mutant Komodo lizards. I couldn’t find out what the curse of the komodo was but the cast sure did curse at the komodo. Perhaps the title has some sort of prepositional license. To be fair, this is not too bad for a low budget big thing movie.
The story goes something like this; a secret Navy project on a secret island 300 secret miles south of Hawaii secretly goes terribly awry. Meanwhile in Honolulu, a gang of robbers secretly hit a casino and secretly fly off with the cash in a rented helicopter that crashes on the secret Komodo Island during a not so secret storm.
The island crew of a couple of scientists and the chief scientist’s bimbette daughter are protected by an electric fence but their generator is low on fuel. At this point you realize the house on the island looks somewhat like a Victorian mansion and you have to ask yourself, how in the heck they got that baby on a deserted island. As with most B movies of this type, looking too closely at the details will spoil the fun.
The CGI komodos have accelerating appetites and cast depopulation starts early in the movie. To make matters worse, if you touch their saliva (Who would want to anyway?) you develop a terminal infection and start to act like a character out of ‘The Night of the Living Dead’. A cover up by the Navy ensues and our cast of komodo croutons has to figure a way off the island without Navy help. In fact at one point I’m not sure the komodos were more of a danger to the cast than the Navy. In any event, some of the cast survive and the movie does come with the required topless bathing scene as well as dollops of gore to keep genre fans happy.
The movie is rated R for: multiple silicone enhancements, topless bathing, gore galore, oozing sores, useless rifle firing, C-4 explosions, and for the pilot with a drinking problem.