“Reptilian” (also known as “Yonggary”) is a South Korean monster movie with an American cast. I assume that it’s meant to be South Korea’s answer to the “Godzilla” and “Gamera” franchises but I can assure the Japanese that they do not have anything to worry about. This is an over-the-top film that will make you laugh because it’s just so cheesy.

In “Reptilian”, palaeontologists discover the bones of an ancient dinosaur monster known as ‘Yonggary’. However, alien invaders resurrect the creature and send it to destroy an American city. The military then battles against Yonggary in a fight where it seems impossible for mankind to triumph.

The acting in “Reptilian” is just absolutely awful. Some of the dialog is just laughable. I also don’t why they casted American actors and actresses instead of Koreans. Yonggary is sadly not played by a man in a rubber suit but is instead just a C.G.I. monster. He looks absolutely atrocious. The special effects for the film make the “Godzilla” movies from around the same time look like “Jurassic Park” by comparison. At least Yonggary can breathe fire like Godzilla (and unlike the American Godzilla from the 1998 film). There’s another monster that appears near the end and it looks even worse than Yonggary. The aliens look rather unimpressive and like something from “Power Rangers”.

“Reptilian” features fighter jets, jetpacks, fire-breathing monsters, aliens and lots of explosions but everything looks so terrible and the acting is just absolutely horrendous. The special effects make monster films such as this a lot less appealing to me than the rubber suit monster films. There’s just something so synthetic about C.G.I. creatures such as Yonggary. If you want a better South Korean monster film then check out “Dragon Wars: D-War” because that has a lot of the same ingredients but looks so much better.