Jeziel G
A team of archeologists led by Dr. Campbell explore a cave full of dinosaur bones. Dr. Wendell Hughes, having wandered off on his own, is stunned to discovered an alien fossil as well. Campbell, in charge of the expedition, ignores his cry and presses on. One of the archeologists strikes a glowing red vein on a stone pillar with a hatchet, setting off an explosion. Only Hughes and Campbell survive, though Hughes is presumed dead. The explosion reveals a tablet full of hieroglyphics, which Campbell views with triumph.
Two years later, as a Galaxion spaceship approaches the Moon, Campbell's efforts to excavate a dinosaur skeleton "50 times the size of T. rex" are well underway. Bud Black, a reporter, arrives unannounced at the dig site. Campbell is impressed to learn he was published in Time and welcomes him, though his lead assistant Holly Davis is unmoved. Meanwhile, the spaceship shoots down the Space Shuttle and a satellite.
Presumed dead since the explosion, Hughes returns to the dig site. He demands an end to the excavation, believing that it will lead to the resurrection of the dinosaur, which he calls Yonggary. Campbell scoffs and has him forcibly escorted away. Later that night, fighters deployed by the spaceship fire on the dig site, killing two workers. Their deaths go unnoticed until morning, with Campbell destroying Black's film when he tries to photograph them. He blames their deaths on a live wire and orders the others back to work, offering to double their salaries. It is the third such accident in the past week. Holly, aghast at Campbell's callousness, resigns. The U.S. military detects the spaceship hovering over Earth, but the Galaxions press on with their plans.
Yonggary's teeth fly out of the ground and return to his jaw, killing another worker in the process, while his skeleton begins to regrow. Again, Campbell blocks Black's efforts to document his death. He even convinces Black to help him hide the body, only for another worker to die later that night. Facing a revolt, Campbell threatens to report the remaining workers, who are all undocumented immigrants, and they fall in line.
Hughes follows Holly to a bar, where he repeats his warning about Yonggary, first told to him by a shaman in Southeast Asia. According to this prophecy, the dinosaur will be reborn to destroy the world. He reveals that he took the alien fossil to the U.S. government, which became too preoccupied studying it to bother with Yonggary. Holly does not believe him at first, but is convinced upon reading that carbon dating estimated that the Galaxion fossil was 220 to 250 million years old. They return to the dig site as Yonggary's skeleton is fully revealed. The spaceship fires a ray which rapidly restores Yonggary to life, with a jewel called a Daemon forming on his forehead. Campbell, gripped by madness, tries to communicate with the monster, only to be stomped flat, along with most of the workers. The spaceship teleports Yonggary away.
The military sends infantry to the dig site, and Hughes and Holly try to explain the situation to Captain Parker, who is incredulous until he sees one of Yonggary's footprints. The Galaxions beam down the monster in front of their Jeep, but he hesitates to attack them, with Hughes explaining that his vision is based on movement. A squadron of helicopters surround him, allowing them to escape, but their weapons prove ineffective. Spitting fireballs, he destroys most of them.
Stunned by the defeat, Lieutenant-General George Murdock meets with Stanley Mills, an agent from the highly-classified National Space Investigation Agency. He shares Hughes' discovery with them, admitting that he knew the Galaxions could return six months ago. The aliens deploy Yonggary to Los Angeles, where he goes on a rampage. Infantry attacks him to no avail. In the war room, Hughes and Mills have a testy reunion, as Hughes left the N.S.I.A. with a CD containing tablet translations. Fighter jets target Yonggary next, but he evades most of their missiles, leading to massive collateral damage, and returns fire to devastating effect. The President of the United States informs Murdock that he has five hours to stop the monster before he will order the use of nuclear weapons. After Yonggary vanishes again, the military learns that he has a force field which interferes with the missiles' guidance systems.
Out of options, the military turns to Project T: infantry armed with experimental jetpacks and laser cannons. Using the tablets, Hughes and Holly determine that the aliens are using the Daemon to control Yonggary. The T-forces intercept Yonggary before he can reach a nuclear power plant, but the campaign seems futile until Hughes and Holly instruct them to target the Daemon. Before they can hit it, the Galaxions teleport Yonggary away, aware of their discovery. Using infrared, the T-forces determine Yonggary's destination as a nuclear-armed stealth fighter heads towards Los Angeles. He damages Captain Parker's jetpack, though the soldier survives the fall, and Lieutenant O'Neil destroys the Daemon with a suicide attack. Freed from the aliens' control, Yonggary saves a group of civilians from a building toppled from another errant missile salvo, causing Hughes to realize his benevolent nature and convince Murdock of the same.
Mills jams the war room's communications with the President before the nuclear attack can be called off. He is determined that Yonggary's death will cause the aliens to descend to Earth, allowing them to be captured and studied. Murdock gives him the code to leave the war room, but Sergeant Archie is waiting on the other side of the door to disarm him.
With electric rays from his tail and raw strength, Cycor gains the upper hand over Yonggary, but Parker distracts him. Yonggary recovers, blasting off Cycor's right claw with a fireball. Tentacles emerge from the stump and ensnare the dinosaur, electrocuting him. When Cycor closes in, however, Yonggary decapitates him with a fireball. The alien keeps coming, but another fireball fired into his neck blows him to pieces. Yonggary collapses, while the nuclear strike is terminated just in time.
The Galaxions opt to retreat "before Yonggary discovers his true strength." Helicopters transport the groggy monster to a remote, deserted island.
in conclusion:Reptilian is the best movie in 1999-2001 and it deserve a sequel
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
04/28/25
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Paulina D
I'd like to say that this is a fun, whimsical, Sci-Fi/Comedy along the likes of Sharknado and Ice Spiders . . . but I can't. This movie is not "fun" bad; it is just BAD. Erratic scene-jumping, ridiculous premise, and a "dinosaur" that acts more like a transformer. I started advancing scenes half-way through and still could not see it to the end. I'll never reclaim those 50 minutes -- SAVE YOURSELF!
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
11/11/24
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xpig332 B
Amazing cinematic masterpiece, almost on the same level as an Asylum production!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
08/22/24
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DanTheMan 2
The Yonggary remake is a special kind of terrible Kaiju film, being the most expensive film in South Korea at the time. It's a ridiculous movie all-around firmly in the realm of so bad it's good; joining the likes of A*P*E in its infamy.
It's been asleep for two hundred million years. Now it has been awakened by aliens from another galaxy. The aliens are using Yonggary to destroy mankind.
A major passion project by Hyung-Rae Shim, his lack of polish bleeds all over the screen with odd shot composition, confusing and downright bizarre editing, painful overacting and predictably dull storytelling.
I'd recommend this purely because of how ungodly terrible it is and for a good laugh more than anything else, it doesn't have a lot of strong points in any regard but might pass for entertainment if you are off your head on something.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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Audience Member
the original Yongary was more fun
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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Audience Member
The film feels like a classic Japanese monster film, besides the horrible CGI and American actors. The acting is awful, the effects are bad, and the characters are boring. It takes a while for any monster action to start, and there just isn't much of it. It's hard to tell if this was suppose to be serious and a tribute. I won't say it's a horrible film, but it's not very good either. Incredibly cheesy though.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/02/23
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