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A plane crashes on an uncharted island, and while most survived the crash, the plane has been broken into, and a small group led by he-men Ed (Jeff Denton) and John (Rhett Giles) go looking for the cockpit for the radio to call for rescue. Their trail leads them through a dense jungle populated by giant man-eating spiders and flying lizards that just love to attack humans and carry them off. Eventually they have to notice that the island hosts many a downed plane, but somehow all of them are stripped of their radios. Eventually our group of heroes is joined by mysterious Lt. Challenger (Bruce Boxleitner), another survivor from their crash who has made it through the jungle on his own and knows too much about the island for comfort. He also carries a metal suitcase that he defends with his gun. Eventually, out group make it to a cave populated by giant scorpions, where some of them, including John, lose their lives, and the others are captured by a tribe of natives. Weirdly enough, Challenger speaks their language - not that that helps much, they're all going to be sacrificed to the island's "God", a giant gorilla. But in the cave they're kept in, they find a survivor from an earlier crash, Larry (Steve Railsback), who has collected radio spare parts to eventually call for assistance. He's batshit crazy though, but somehow they manage to reason with him ... and make it out alive. But that's when the flying lizards and the ape attack, then fighter jets our heroes somehow managed to call attack, but there's an interference on the island that makes all of them crash. Somehow Challenger dies, but he tells the others there's an atom bomb somewhere on the island that he was to detonate via remote control, and that might take out the giant ape for sure - so all our heroes have to do now is to blow up the island ...

Obviously an attempt to cash in on the success of Peter Jackson's King Kong - which was released one day after King of the Lost World -, this film takes remarkably little cues from the King Kong lore (other than the inclusion of a giant ape, which is merely a supporting monster here) and instead spins an ok adventure yarn that's just a bit too clichéed and somewhat overfraught with stale dialogue to really stand out, plus takes a few too many disaster movie cues, but it's an ok watch at least.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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