King Of The Lost World
This 2005 American produced film begins with an airplane crash in an isolated island that is cut into two by the impact making the Sterne of the airplane, which is still at the beach, unable to recollect the cockpit, lost somewhere in the jungle. The survivors of the plane, struggling to communicate, are helped, rather reluctantly, by an enigmatic Lt. Challenger( Bruce Boxleitner) and set out in search of the cockpit.
What they find is that the island is not only infested with dinosaurs and enormous insects but also has a very large ape. There are also natives who wish the remaining survivors to be offered as a sacrifice to the ape. It seems as though a sacrifice a day is sufficient to keep the ape at bay, something which may come in handy should you ever get marooned on a lonely island.
At this point, it might feel very much like King Kong and, indeed, the movie did take more than a bit from both those and Jurassic Park. King of the Lost World however, bears even a larger resemblance to the television series Lost. The pictures of the survivors on the beach and beach itself are hard not to think were borrowed from the first few minutes of the show.
(And what’s more, a good chunk of activities in the course of the pilot involved simply looking for the cockpit of the plane.) Lt. Challenger, who always walks around with a suitcase by him that has some more than a few psychological points details as to why he came to this island, seems the type, one of them quite possibly.
But in fact, however, the picture is in fact based on a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, which is one among the many works by Doyle about the exploratory feats of Professor Challenger. Professor Challenger, as I would mention, was a little more of a softer character than Lieutenant Challenger.
The sad truth is that King of the Lost World does not measure up to any of its inspirations. The giant ape and the dinosaurs are fun in their cheap, but silly manner, but they are hardly even in the film. Rather, the movie is mostly about how some people make their way through the woods and start arguing about whether to go left or right.
There is a rather poorly conceived comic segment, if it can be called so, where when the survivors are captured and two of them become hypnotized and pretend to be natives, but that is only interesting for a scene or two. If a motion picture sells itself on the premise of a giant ape, that giant ape must be there for a lot more than a minute at the beginning and five minutes at the end.
Typically, I’m the one who stands up, who defends Asylum and their low-budget rip-offs without an ounce of embarrassment, but I have to admit that King of the Lost World is not one of their best works. The film ended with a suggestion that there could be a follow up, but as far as I know, it did not. Luckily, even if King of the Lost World initiated no series, the Asylum developed Sharknado movies and a number of other entertaining works.
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