Very disappointing...

Pretty Good

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Okay so as everyone already pointed out, this film WILL be worse that whatever you expect. Poor CGI, bad acting, unrealistic reactions, basically no plot...But, as everything has its pros and cons, this film actually has a bright side, it's ridiculously hilarious. I was laughing the whole time, the actors' reactions is just funny!I would've called this film "Funny Dinosaurs" (Comedy, Sci-Fi) :D?I'm always against convincing anyone not to watch a film because it's bad and I believe that everyone should decide for themselves whether it's bad or not after watching it but this one here is an exception.Save 88 minutes of your life!

I expected not too much, after all it is a low budget movie in a genre defined by multi million dollar projects like Jurassic Park. But there are just tons of problems with this movie. The script is bad, the acting ranges from okay to bad, the effects are bad, the sound is bad. The script has a not very original story, no plot twists, but lots of logical errors. The effects are simply bad. As soon as any dinosaur moves more than just a little, the animations look like from a 90s computer game (close ups and slow movements actually look decent). The CG do not match the footage, it just looks like copied from another movie and dropped into this. The (way too many) explosions are better, but still no match for many 15-20 year old movies. The characters.... no development at all. I kinda liked the Chief, and Jade is cute, but wanted to just look away for all those embarrassing lines. Sound effects and music were okay, but in many dialogues you hear lots of clothes rustling on the lavalier microphones. And so many WTF moments. Why would a Stegosaur be standing on top of a skyscraper? Why would every helicopter pilot try to get within biting range?Two stars for trying to make a movie, and failing I absolutely recommend that you do NOT watch this one.

How on earth they got Treat Williams and Ronny Cox to do this movie is an amazing feat. This movie is of course essentially a rip off of Jurassic Park: The Lost World - well... the final two reels anyhow. Unfortunately, the script is so horrible. (If you were a fireman, standing holding an ax, and a dinosaur was in the process of tearing into somebody 4 feet away from you, wouldn't you at least take a swing, instead of standing there for five seconds with a bored look on your face?)The visual FX are OK for this movie. They are about one generation from being 'done' as the dinosaurs didn't seem to blend in with the lighting from scene to scene, but not entirely distracting. The "script" is just so bad, that is really what takes you out of the movie. Although, I wonder if there was any writing forethought at all, and if this really wasn't just an exercise in improv, then having the effects done to suit the filmed improv. Visually, this movie was a touch better than a similar movie called Carnosaur (1993), though this is twenty years later in the technology for the FX.The reason for the two stars is simply because the visual FX were at times OK. And I did appreciate the fact that when the dinosaurs tear into people, they didn't feel the need to show the actual teeth tearing the flesh. There were cutaways where you only saw the blood splatter - reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock's style.The Mythbusters once proved that "you can polish a turd", however in this case, the script is a turd that probably couldn't be polished with out a few more rewrites - or a burning the first draft, and restarting all together.

I gave this a four because I like Treat Williams and it was fun to watch Jillian Rose Reed jiggle. Nice to see Ronny Cox get a role where he is not an evil bad guy for a change. Of course he is not to informed about the things going on in his company, so in a way he is ultimately responsible for all the death and destruction that is unleashed when a whole bunch of dinosaurs created by his company are set loose on LA (no real lose). I found the articulation of some of the CGI creatures to be3 suspect. They just didn't seem to move right. It did start to get pretty ridiculous in the last many minutes. The daughter jumps for the chopper, grabs dad's hand/arm, slips out and starts to fall. Then a pteranodon swoops by and grabs her out of mid air. First I don't think it could support the girl's weight while in flight. Second well the first reason is enough. Then there is the scene at the Hollywood sign where Treat pushes the flying lizard that got trapped in the crashed helicopter over the edge using one finger. This is a typical SyFy channel under produced and written movie.