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Roberto Giacomelli
•A group of young environmentalists heads to an island in the Pacific Ocean to document and expose mysterious experiments conducted by the US army on the island's flora and fauna. Upon arrival, the four young people, accompanied by a journalist with her cameraman and a guide, will discover that the island's laboratories have been abandoned due to the experiment getting out of control: a cobra of mastodontic dimensions and equally gigantic Komodo varans roam freely on the island in search of prey!
Do you know that type of movie that immediately announces itself as a piece of rubbish with a capital "B" starting from the absurd title, the ridiculous poster, and the improbable plot? Well, "Komodo vs. Cobra" is exactly one of those movies: a title that shouts to the four winds that it is a monster movie based on reptiles, a poster that flaunts the aforementioned reptiles of disproportionate dimensions in some kind of mortal embrace similar to kamasutra, names in the cast of perfect unknowns, to the point that it is hard to believe that Michelle Borth is an authentic name. Well. Now do you know that feeling you get when you find yourself in front of this type of movie and, even if you already know that you are taking a risk, you feel irresistibly attracted to watching it? "Komodo vs. Cobra" works exactly like this: a bad film so ostentatious and announced that you must watch it at all costs, as if a Guido Angeli incites you with the characteristic "Try to believe!"
Unfortunately, this "Komodo vs. Cobra" does not even manage to satisfy the most infantile desires to enjoy a stupid Godzilla-style monster movie, but rather it slaps us in the face from the introduction with the two gargantuan saurians, made with a computer graphic so primitive that it makes you miss the "Sinbad" TV shows produced at the end of the 1990s. As if this were not enough, this already considerable blow, the film does not manage to involve the viewer eager for celluloid stupidity at all, resulting rather repetitive and filled with scenes that, according to the intentions, should surprise or scare, but in reality only make the unwary viewer swear due to the poor execution and the unintentionally ridiculous effect.
It is useless to look for some quotes from the various Japanese monster movies set on the famous "Island of Monsters" or the Spielbergian "Jurassic Park", because the comparison would be embarrassing and out of place. The only certainty is that the director Jim Wynorski, who in the past has accustomed us to embarrassing films such as "976- The Astral Factor", "Ghoulies 4" and "The Curse of Komodo", has managed to put together a farce that, in addition to not scaring even a baby in swaddling clothes (who, on the contrary, should be taken to the nearest toy store to look for the Cobra and Komodo varan plush toys), does not even manage to entertain the viewer who has decided to put their brain cells on vacation for an hour and a half.
In short, an embarrassing movie that proudly stands out in the mix of various "Boa vs. Phyton", "Snakeman" and "Phyton". Not even recommended for the most masochistic reptile-loving viewer!
