Why so much hype?

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

While the premise of the movie is good one thing got thrown out of the cot completely One of the soldiers remarks at the beginning of the movie about the Grandfather paradox effect (go back in time and kill your grandfather so how could you have been born to be able to go back to kill your grandfather) If you have heard of the Butterfly Effect you will see what the problem with this movie is (Butterfly Effect - You sneeze in America and a butterfly drops dead in China - cause and effect can have repercussions farther down the line somewhere) There have been many movies where this takes place in a rational manner Please note this review mentions another time travel movie which shows the problem with THIS movie We've seen Back to the Future where Marty goes back in time and changes his future then Biff does the same thing What they do in the past affects the Future There is a movie called A SOUND OF THUNDER where this concept is explained and the repercussions of what you do in the past can drastically change the future The time travelers there go back to the prehistoric era to kill a dinosaur There is no cause and effect in the time line because they instruct the hunters not to step off the specially constructed pathway to avoid tampering with the natural flow of time The exact time they go back is set to be just before a T Rex gets swallowed up in a Bog so killing it will not affect anything in the future Just to be sure a few minutes after the T Rex is killed a volcano erupts wiping out everything there Also in order not to change the past the weapons they used are modified weapons that will not leave a trace in the past to show that they were there However on one of their trips someone steps on a butterfly and when they get back things begin to change as the revised time storms effect the future as the world evolves differently now Another movie where care is taken not to affect the past to affect the Future is Michael Chritons TIME LINE book and movie This is where 100 Million BC falls totally flat They go back into the past dressed as modern soldiers fully equipped They use 20th century clothes equipment and ammunition Half the team is eliminated ether by the plants or the animals prevalent at the time On their deaths everything is left behind including all their equipment If it didn't change the past in anyway it certainly would give archeologists a king size headache in the future wondering how twentieth century equipment and ordinance landed up so far in the pastOf course it could have been rectified by having the reason why they went back to the past cancelled out BUT as it stands at the moment this was not thought off when they sent them back to the past to rescue an earlier expedition Just a very small DEVASTATING error on the part of the movie producers

This movie is a total mess. I thought this movie was made in 1988, not 2008, based on nearly cardboard cutouts of dinosaurs. Dialog was mostly implied throughout the movie. Total disconnect with reality. It appears that the directors not only had a super limited budget but also limited imagination and no research what so ever. Yet I found myself glued to the TV for almost the whole movie. The more I watched the crappier it got. It was almost like watching teletubbies or Barny the dinosaur. SPOILER: Surprisingly, this highly advanced facility is run by a bald, fat technician (starting the portal) and a lone officer who looks like a total redneck. Also, the genius doctor tells his friend that his son almost killed someone in a bar. The son must be at least 60 years old, since his dad left in 1949. . Also, the grandfather paradox (mentioned in the movie) tends to be amplified in time. So it was an absolute blunder to send the team to the dinosaurs.The cave messages (in English), the T-Rex scull and the UFO caricature would have huge effect on media and science.Bottom line: Don't watch unless you are addicted to crack. One star for the concept

For low-rent studio The Asylum, this is probably one of their bigger-budgeted efforts. I don't know what was spent on this movie, but I'm guessing a minimum of $1 million, probably closer to $5 million. Those CGI effects, as fake looking as they are, still cost several hundred K to produce.Also, this has actors in it (on the downward slide of their careers though they may be) that you have actually heard of. Usual fare from The Asylum gets actors you've never heard of, like minor soap opera players and refugees from other direct-to-video studios. Also, they did some actual location shooting in Belize. I think it was just second unit footage with no actors in it, but, that still cost them some money. I would bet that the parts with the actors trudging through the supposed prehistoric jungle were shot in some remote part of California mountains.Which is to say that I am willing to grade on a curve here. The producers and director are working with a really low budget. Still, you have to have a good story. The idea for the film was a good hook I thought, but the story is a little confusing. I'm willing to give some slack for "plot holes" since all time traveling movies have them.The acting was really not too bad. These are all experienced working actors trying to do a good job. About the worst moments were some of the death scenes where they get eaten by dinosaurs. However, I've seen much worse, namely in any Ed Wood film, or anything by Coleman Francis or Al Adamson. The music was canned, but it didn't sound too bad, it did sound somewhat similar to a big budget studio movie soundtrack. And helicopter shots of Los Angeles at night (the whole last 30 minutes of the movie) always add a higher budget sheen to the proceedings.If you like monster movies, there are worse ones out there. Maybe if you aren't paying too much attention, they will fool you into thinking that you watched a big budget movie. I recognize that this is not a ringing endorsement. Unless you are a monster movie fanatic, or fan of schlock, I would stay away.

I hate bad movies, and this is a bad movie!If these navy crew members were sent back in say 1948, how come they act and dress like 2000's people, remember they have only been away for 6 years? Especially the women are hot modern looking chicks. And one of the guys has two modern tattoos on his arms. Come one! Give us a break! And the tragically panicking S&R Navy Seal team! Jeez! Such a bunch of losers, bad actors nearly everyone. And the story is only rudimentary written.Imagine a T-Rex or whatever on the loose in some big city. Wouldn't pedestrians and drivers evade it? Wouldn't the responsible officers sound the alarm? Wouldn't the chopper pilot keep a safe distance and fire his weapons effectively?If you were in the cretaceous, wouldn't you keep a lookout all the time and never turn your back to the unknown? Could you hit a pterodactyl in mid air with a bow and arrow? What sense is there in running away from the group your only chance of survival? Why do they only have small caliber weapons against thick skinned dinos? Armor piercing bullets? Why do they not wear body armor or helmets? Do they not have any discipline? This movie makes me puke!