Plot
A group of people with dodgy backgrounds wake up in a hotel infested with Dinosaurs and soon discover they must play the games to survive the night.
Cast
ITN regulars May Kelly and the consistently terrible Marcus Massey.
Verdict
And there we have it, I've finished the Dinosaur Hotel trilogy and please please please don't let there be a fourth film. My completionist nature will force me to watch it and I'm not sure I can endure another one.
So our movie shifts back to the Hotel in the first film, a bunch of randomers or as the premise hilariously says "A group of people with dodgy backgrounds" and face off with more offensively bad CGI dinosaurs. Has the CGI improved over the course of the three movies? Absolutely, is it still at Birdemic (2010) levels? Again, absolutely.
The dinosaurs are so absurdly ugly looking it prevents you ever getting into the film and taking it seriously, we had better CGI 30 years ago so there really is no excuse at all.
Our cast are a bunch of interchangeable cardboard cut outs, May is our leading lady and though she's proven competent in the past here she's intolerable and at no point due to the shoddy writing does she feel like the lead of the movie.
I just don't understand how there have been three of these and how the creators keep making the same mistakes! Awful awful stuff.
Rants
The Dinosaur Hotel movies are the embodiment of my philosophy that if you don't have the budget for something then don't! They didn't have the budget to make a movie featuring dinosaurs, so they should have made a zombie film, a thriller, a romantic comedy, something simple and cheap. Overeaching like this dooms a movie straight out of the gate, and ITN films already have enough to damage them without that as well.
The Good
Erm, sorry I'm drawing a blank
The Bad
Awful characters
Dreadful writing
Hideous CGI
More of the same
The lead isn't used like a lead.
