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Hundreds of dinosaurs created by a biotech firm escape into Los Angeles, and wreak havoc on the city.Hundreds of dinosaurs created by a biotech firm escape into Los Angeles, and wreak havoc on the city.Hundreds of dinosaurs created by a biotech firm escape into Los Angeles, and wreak havoc on the city.
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Michael Hover
- Young Businessman
- (as Mike Hoover)
Ben Anklam
- SWAT Leader
- (as Benjamin James)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaOn a table in the lab (where Gabe's daughter is hiding) is seen a container of genetic material bearing the label "Dodgson D N CE3K 06/09/93." Dodgson was the evil character in Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" (released in June 1993) who obtained the original dinosaur embryos. The notation CE3K may be an inside joke referring to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," another Spielberg production.
- GoofsWhen the helicopter drops CEO Justin Juarisco on the roof, the helicopter is seen flying off, then 2 cuts later it's standing still (supposedly on the roof) as the pilot gives Justin a thumbs up to his command to wait for him there.
- Quotes
Gabe Jacobs: Your boss is dead. Follow that pteranodon! Step on it!
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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.
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.
- marimbadaddy
- May 10, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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