Raptor Island
Raptor Island
| 21 April 2004 (USA)
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A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an action-packed tale of man-versus-monster starring Steven Bauer and Lorenzo Lamas.

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Cubussoli

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Lightdeossk

Captivating movie !

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Kailansorac

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

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Zandra

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Trevor Dearth

I just can't! Please watch this! It might be horrible, but it has the same appeal as The Room, Battlefield Earth, etc. It's just so funny. I love this movie. Don't take it seriously, if you want to watch it, I advise you to watch it as a Comedy. The story of Navy SEALS going to the south china sea, they meet terribly CGI raptors and hilarity happens. I really recommend watching this with friends if possible, just so you can watch it and laugh together. I don't care if you disagree, I'm giving this a 9/10, just because of its existence. Really, Please make a sequel! Please. So what happens is The people go to the island, There are raptors there, the acting is terrible, the effects are terrible, the story is terrible, but I just don't care. To be honest, this is probably the movie that you find at the video store on a Friday night and you decide it looks cool so you rent it. Please, don't take this movie seriously, its a fun ride if you don't, so turn off your sense of a good movie, pop it in, and have a fun time.

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gavin6942

Decades ago, a crate filled with weapons grade plutonium crashes on an island and soaks into the ground. Today, a team of military men are sent to track down a notorious terrorist (of ambiguous national origin) and they track him to this polluted island. When their raft is destroyed, the team must spend the night on shore, but soon discover that the plutonium has done something awful to the island -- it has called forth hundreds of bloodthirsty velociraptors.Let me start this with a lesson: don't lend a movie to your friend before you've seen it, especially if you are supposed to be reviewing it for the internet's finest horror movie site. It took me almost a year to get this film back, and the person who borrowed it still had not watched it (though we ended up seeing it together). And a second, more important, lesson: when you do watch this, keep your expectations as low as humanly possible. Because this film ranks among the worst I've ever seen.My acting in 8th grade was more convincing than the seasoned actors who appear in this film (Lorenzo Lamas, Stephen Bauer). Line delivery is very fake, and the words themselves are poorly scripted. The opening words come from a man checking out his gun's scope: "Boom. Dead bad guys." Yes, that's pure genius at work. The only conversation with any depth has two main characters explaining their histories. But it, too, seems unnatural and a poor attempt to provide character background and to fill time. We didn't need to know anything about their histories, so why bore us with it? And if you think the conversations are bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.The lighting is atrocious. I generally don't notice lighting, but my friend (a former film school student) was practically vomiting in rage at the way more often than not shadows fell on the actors' faces and the light would be in the background, focused on nothing in particular. Most lighting looks like a spotlight in a dim room, and many of the scenes involve a deep, subterranean cavern -- which you'd then expect to be poorly lit, but had lights coming from all sorts of random angles. Don't ask me why.The plot was pretty bad. Some films can take the idea of military men chasing a terrorist and make a convincing film out of it. Cat and mouse stories are riveting. Well, not here. The terrorist is really not even part of the story, just an excuse to go to the island. And the raptors? And the allosaurus? Sure, they came from the plutonium that soaked into the ground. But if that makes sense to you, please explain it to me because I have no clue how radiation brings dinosaurs back from millions of years of extinction.By far the worst part of "Raptor Island" is the animation of the raptors. That's right -- the selling point of the film is the worst aspect. The animation isn't just bad, it's subpar. I can't even express the hilarity of cartoons this cheesy. And when they get shot? Red splats like one would see in an old video game. Even the airplane, helicopter and Navy ship are cartoons... how hard is it to get a model plane? Please don't see "Raptor Island" unless you need a good laugh or want to get sickeningly drunk. Sure, you probably want to see it before you see "Raptor Island 2" (which seems to be getting better reviews). But just avoiding it entirely is your best bet. The closest thing I can compare it to is "Pinata: Survival Island", and unfortunately this film makes the pinata look good by comparison. You have been warned.

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Eventuallyequalsalways

I've read almost all of the reviews of this movie and I have to be the lone voice in the wilderness among them. Practically everyone who posted a review appears to have read the other reviews and then set forth to see how uniquely they could trash this movie "Raptor Island". Some go so far as to rank it as one of the worst movies ever made. Give me a break! You've got to be pretty pathetic to sink that low on a list of all movies ever made. I read a lot of reviews about movies and books, and my goal is to obtain some indication of the worth of a property to provide a little entertainment. To say that this movie was worthless is a disservice to the casual viewer who is simply looking for a cinematic diversion. Perhaps the other reviewers should look objectively at most of the big-bucks flicks whose costs are driven into the stratosphere by big-name stars and by following the direction of the accounting office. Do they sincerely want to watch sequel after sequel for years on end because the accounting office knows that sequels make more money? Frankly, I am deeply grateful that made-for-TV movies exist and are funded by such as the Sci-Fi channel. These movies give the Indy filmmakers a chance to practice their craft; most of them actually seem to follow a script. They give young unknown actors a chance to work. Reviewer after reviewer criticized the Computer Graphics Images (CGI) in this movie. Listen, this movie may not have the very latest CGI, but I can remember years and years of movie-viewing where these CGI effects would have been outstanding. Granted, this movie did not set forth to be a big movie, but it does what it was intended to do, provide a couple of hours of good entertaining TV fare. If you like action flicks with a lot of firepower and an actual script which takes you through a real story, then this movie delivers the goods. I'm certain it didn't win any awards, but it was worth a couple of idle hours on a Saturday afternoon on the SciFi channel. I, for one, hope the SciFi folks don't get discouraged when people dump all over their work as many of the other reviewers did. We need far more creativity in Hollywood and it ain't coming from the big guys, folks. These little Indy movies and made-for-TV movies are where the skills are being nurtured which may give us some decent entertainment in the future. If we could only get the accounting department folks out of script selection, the American movie industry would be revitalized. And I'll tell you another thing, we need more reviewers who have their own point of view, and fewer reviewers who try to out-trash their peers.

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jvega1124

In the words of Billy Bob Thornton this movie is funny, but I don't know if it's funny ha-ha! Or funny Queer. Lorenzo Lamas is queer to begin with, then you add sorry effects and a lame story line and you have for a cocktail of queerness all around. If your a Sci-Fi fan you can watch this movie because is Sci-Fi but I warn you, you could develop some funny feelings (I don't know if funny ha-ha or funny queer) in the pit of your stomach. Over all this movie sucked like all of Lorenzo Lamas movies. What was that show he was on anyways, oh well I don't care I am just trying to fill the 10 lines so I can post this comment on a all around queer movie.

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