Actually, it's a lot worse than that. None of the major premises of the movie make sense. It doesn't make sense that an oil company would cover up the fact that someone, whether one of their employees or not, had released Komodo dragons on this island (off the coast of Georgia?). The explanation is that dragons are endangered. What does that have to do with anything? The oil company didn't deliberately put them there, and in this environment they aren't endangered; on the contrary, they are invasive. Even if Komodos are endangered, that's all the more reason to bring in help. That would be good publicity, not bad. The plot would have made more sense -- well just sense period -- if the company had some other reason for keeping people away from the island, like illegally dumping toxic waste or something.
It also doesn't make sense that the oil company (or its evil operative) could use Billy Burke's wife's disappearance to blackmail him into killing the Komodos. Nor does it make sense that he didn't tell the police about the Komodos in the first place. It wasn't like it would be hard to prove they were there. So now Burke's going to exterminate the only thing that can clear him so he can live in hiding and at the mercy of this corrupt company for the rest of his life? All he ever had to do was to reveal the existence of the Komodos, and all his problems were solved.
It also doesn't make sense that the kid's parents had been living on the island for some time without encountering any Komodos. If I understood what was going on, when the family boards the ferry they are returning after a short absence to their home on the island where they've lived for at least two or three years and where the dragons have been for at least 20 years. How else does the ferryman know them so well? As soon as they get in the house, we see that dragons have been there and torn up the kitchen while they were gone. So nothing like that had ever happened before they left? Real Komodo dragons don't hide from anything. They'll walk (or run) right up to you, and they'll kill you if you give them a chance. That dog wouldn't have lasted a week.
Let's not even get into the psychiatrist's approach.
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