Rise of the Dinosaurs

When their mission to capture a renegade general and a kidnapped scientist goes awry, a team of soldiers learn they've stumbled onto an ancient valley filled with live dinosaurs and must try to get away before they all fall victim to the creatures.

This turned out to be quite an enjoyable effort that could be fun once it overlooked the cheesiness. There's a huge amount of that spread throughout here, once again featured from the absolutely atrocious and ridiculous CGI used for the dinosaurs that don't have any sort of consistent movement beyond three general attack behaviors throughout as well as the constant size discrepancies in the scenes and totally ridiculous-looking animation effects for the attacks. While these look really bad, and there's a couple problematic story lines in play that don't make any sort of sense at all, there's some fun here with a lot more action than expected, including a rather fun takeover of the rebel hideout in the jungle which devolves into a series of fun firefights that are pretty enjoyable. As well, with the creatures continuously on the group that leaves for plenty of high-quality confrontations and kill scenes to make up for it's shortcomings. Overall, this one wasn't too bad even with a few flaws.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Language.

Despite having a crazy guy whose trying way to hard, and goes by two different names, I can still choose my favorite part and it's the fool that brought a paintball gun to a "blank bullets" fight.

I think my review title sums it up. It's very watchable, this story of soldiers against dangerous Jurassic beasts.

But it's very stupid. The dialog is corny and it's quite contrived.

The worst and stupidest part of the stupidity is the characters. The "bad guy doing good things" is a cliche that you don't want to try to believe in real life. A human monster doesn't do "nice". The motivations here are even more unbelievable than the rest of it, which says a lot.

The only characters with any possible believable motivation are the minor characters who get scratched out of existence. That's another Hollywood cliche, the sermon about "hey, we'll kill anyone you can relate to, just to keep you depressed, nyah, nyah".

However, it is watchable in a sort of "so bad it's good sort of way".

It's saying something when you call one of the low budget syfy movies the worst, but Jurassic attack fits the box. In this world dinosaurs co exist with humans for some reason. Some people go through the forest and a t rex eats them. Skip to some soldiers that are tasked with going there to rescue some hostage's. But plane crashes and they end up stuck there trying to service the many Dino's and the crazy sciencetist that lives there. The two massive problems that this so bad are one. The CGI is really below average. Almost copy and pasted and the limbs don't even move right and two. The casts accents seem to go between who they are and who they are supposed to be which is annoying. Overall Jurassic attack is missable, but watchable if it's what your looking for.

Truth be told, when I sat down here in 2025 to watch the 2013 movie "Jurassic Attack", or "Rise of the Dinosaurs" as it was titled on the version I stumbled upon, then I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations. The whole thing just reeked of low budget cash-in on the success of the "Jurassic Park" movies.

Writer Rafael Jordan put together a rather generic and formulaic script and storyline. This was essentially a no-brainer, so just lean back and watch the questionable effects as the story unfolds.

Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with Gary Stretch, Corin Nemec and Vernon Wells. The acting performances in the movie were actually bad, which counted for something.

As expected, the CGI animated dinosaurs in the movie were pretty terrible to look at. Well, actually all the effects in the movie were questionable, especially the CGI.

Highly forgettable, "Jurassic Attack" is the type of movie you watch once and never again, provided you even opt to watch it to begin with. "Jurassic Attack" is every bit as questionable and laughable as you would think it to be.

My rating of director Anthony Fankhauser's 2013 movie "Jurassic Attack" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.