Wonderful character development!

Good concept, poorly executed.

Am I Missing Something?

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

AGE OF DINOSAURS is undoubtedly the cheesiest Asylum film I've yet watched, and there are plenty of contenders for that category. This is a shameless rip-off of JURASSIC PARK with almost exactly the same set-up and execution, right down to the Veliciraptor-emulating dinosaurs stalking a girl through a stainless steel kitchen. The last twenty minutes take the action on to the streets and rip off THE LOST WORLD in turn, and it's all ridiculously and gloriously stupid.This film cries out to be treated as an unintentional comedy in much the same way as the SHARKNADO films. The whole thing is ridiculously bad, from the cheesy acting to the cheesy direction and even cheesier dinosaurs. CGI effects are used copiously as expected, and they're all rubbish. The most surprising thing about this production is the two old-timers they roped in to appearing. First up is a grey haired Treat Williams, still playing the action hero in his advancing years; second is Ronny Cox in another typecast villain turn (after ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL), looking so aged as to be almost unrecognisable.

This would definitely be THAT movie. I was stunned while watching it and after watching a few minutes, (I hadn't seen the opening credits to know that it was an ASYLUM movie), I thought to myself, "this had to have been made to make fun of." It just had to be, because NOTHING could be this STUPID on purpose. Wow... there is so much wrong that I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it... but I'm sure with good snacks, good drinks and good friends to sit and watch it together (with the intent of Mystery Science 3000ing it), it might be tolerable. Otherwise, AVOID this stinker. By the way, we need to bring back Mystery Science 3000 just for Asylum movies... or Sinema Sins.

When a biogenetics company announces they have recreated dinosaurs and brought them back to life, their escape into Los Angeles forces a firefighter to race to save both his daughter and the city from the rampaging beasts.This here turned out to be quite a fun if typical Sci-Fi Channel creature feature which means that a lot of the issues present are quite familiar to those with experience in this field. As expected, the CGI is pretty terrible with the usual inconsistencies present where creatures appear to shrink and grow in scale depending on the sequence provided and really don't have too many scenes where it's all consistent with everything else around them. As well, the fact that the misappropriation of size between the different creatures is another factor to deal with, as the film doesn't make any sort of historical accuracies to the different species, mangling the statistics among the different creatures and getting them wrong all-to-frequently. On top of that is the traditional stand-by of looking way too fake and generated outside the set, with their pixelated appearance and design looking none-to-real and being way too obvious about the computerized necessity for their input into the story. That aside, this one wasn't too bad, as there's a lot of fast and quite vicious dinosaur attack scenes that run the range from one-on-one confrontations to being overwhelmed by the size or numbers of the other species and even including a full-scale assault with a military helicopter firing away at the creatures which is quite exciting. The fact that the majority of those scenes are done with realistic-looking puppets or props makes it all the more interesting since they look like they're interacting with the cast for once and it manages to look rather nicely on it's own being so close to the true being. This factor alone saves the film tremendously, and in conduction with the fine action on display makes it really worthwhile.Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

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.