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100 Million BC

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

Special effects on the dinosaurs in this are not real good,
but the multi-looping paradox time travel makes up for it.
The scientist sends his nurse girl friend and his brother
back to before the Asteroid hit Yucatan, where large predatory
lizards roamed free. Of 21 sent back only four live to return
and most of the rescue mission are lost as well.
A large dinosaur makes it through the time gate / wormhole
into downtown LA. I would have liked this to take place during the day,
but since the special effects are minimal,
they used the night to hide their faults...
and a happy ending results.
Let us hope they don't make a sequel.

I picked this up from one of the Red Box rental units at the local grocery store and could tell by the time the credits had finished rolling that this was going to be a real stinker of a movie. B-Movie aside this has wretched acting and a paper thin plot based on highly dubious science. The only plus were the special effects that were so bad that they made me laugh a few times ... seriously folks, do not waste your money.

The science fiction doubletalk actually wasn't as stupid as many time travel movies, but still pretty bad. The lack of a timer on the return device, especially since the inventor knew ahead of time on would be needed, is an OBVIOUS plot device. The special effects weren't very good, but could have been worse (see AVH: Alien Vs Hunter for the real pits). The SEAL team was stupid and wimpy - maybe even less realistic than time travel. I gave it 2 stars though because it is mildly entertaining.

I guess for the price we paid for this, we expected that this was not going to be a mind-blowing state of the art CGI graphic containing movie. I was able to purchase this in the cheapie bin, so do yourself a favor, and laugh hysterically at Amazon's asking prices. I got this for about the same price as a happy-meal.

The plot of this is about a scientist who invents time travel, and lost his army buddies (I think one is his brother or something) in what was known as operation something or other, or more popularly known as "The Philadelphia Experiment" I'm guessing some time back in the 1950's or very early 60's. He has spent the rest of his days working on the time travel device to get them back and has a breakthrough somewhere close to present day when a bunch of paintings are found on rocks written by the lost group. What is written is pretty laughable and silly, but it kicks the plot forward for the army to recruit the best of the best (pffft) to go back in time and preform a rescue mission to bring the lost ones back from the Jurassic period.

The first leader of the chosen army to go back for the rescue is one terrible actor indeed, his voice was parody-able, and I instantly laughed and made fun of these scenes thinking they where so lame and over-acted by actors who couldn't act for bleep. This time the scientist (played by Michael Gross "Family Ties/Tremors 1-4) goes back with the team, and they arrive back in the Jurassic period and right away you will have to laugh at these so-called "Best of the best" when a few of them just open fire with their automatics and fire continuously at nothing. If these guys where the "BEST of the BEST" they would not fire at anything without seeing a confirmed target and what they are about to shoot, usually with one shot... the army is pretty strict about the cost of bullets, or so I hear, from friends who have been in the army and marines etc.. but anyway...

They go back to the Jurassic period and they then find themselves in dangerous territories with some of the WORST CGI dinosaurs I have ever seen. Do you remember back in the late 90's when CGI was still experimental? It's amazing that the CGI in this film is even WORSE then those days, and this a 2008 movie! I have seen better CGI effects done from peoples home movies on Youtube. The scenes of the Rapotor's are shockingly bad, and every-time you see the main big Dinosaur (not sure what it was, but it's not a T-Rex) open it's mouth and scream, it just looks so fake. However, I tried to just ignore this 99 cent graphics department job, and try to follow the plot to see if it was any good.

The team end up finding the lost guys, and they go back to 2008 (I presume) and from then on in the whole thing got a but confusing on who the heck is who, as they come back, and things get a bit chaotic when the large T-Rex looking thing comes back with them and breaks out of the facility and into the streets of L.A. From then on in it's what you expect, trying to stop a Dinosaur from going on a rampage in a major city where no one seems to notice a 20 foot dinosaur roaming the town.
The end of the movie is a bit stupid, it could have been done better, or explained a bit better as to what the heck just happened, and who was who, and why? I think it was explained, and if I paid more attention to character names, I might have had a better understanding of it, but it wasn't worth my time to backtrack.

Overall, it's a low budget action flick with a lot of mistakes to reality, such as a Pterodactyl in the Jurassic period, but if you have never studied Dinosaur timelines, then you wont be bothered by facts.

The whole movie is not all that bad, I give it 2 and a half stars, but I have no urge to ever see it ever again. The CGI is horrible, but the plot of time-lines does have some interesting moments, such as "What would happen if you went back in time, and you where an object appearing in the exact same place as another object?". I thought the film was a bit of a combination of Timeline (2003), Stargate (1993/or SG1) and of coarse, Jurassic Park. I even rolled my eyes seeing them running from a T-Rex-looking-thing in a four-wheel drive, thinking to myself "Where have I seen that before?". If you can look past the horrible CGI effects, the movie is decent, and watchable from start to finish, but it has no replay value to be seen again. Oh, take my word, the image in the cover of this DVD, the Dinosaurs don't come close to looking even half as good as that in the movie.

Do not kick yourself if you never see this movie, you haven't missed much. It's definitely far from a must-see, and I can only see this being bought by suckers like me who thought "Ohh, a Jurassic Park like movie for 2 bucks" or kids/someone obsessed with Dinosaurs. But even the kid will say, "My Barney the Dinosaur Video has better CGI then this, Ma"

Question: How do you know the military was ever successful in manipulating time and space (e.g. The Philadelphia Experiment)? Answer: When cave markings dated approximately 70 million years old read the words, "Rita Hayworth". Yep, that's justification enough for me to warrant a group of soldiers to enter a wormhole led by Michael Gross (considering his experience of wormholes from his "Tremors" repertoire, just the man for the job) and be teleported back to prehistoric times in search of the previous group sent 60 years earlier. When the survivors of both troops return back to modern times, they are followed by an unexpected traveller... a very ticked off and hungry tyrannosaurus rex! But, why does this T-Rex look so amateurish, so animated? It makes one speculate dinosaurs even existing... oh wait, that's just atrocious CGI effects that The Asylum production company is notorious for having in their usually lackluster films that, nonetheless, always have some wierd charm about them. At least we can rest easy that Greg Evigan is finding work and doesn't have to continue his pipe dreams of recieving royalty checks for a "B.J. and the Bear" DVD release. A guaranteed laugh and "Oh, c'mon!" will happen during viewing. Also, be prepared for what felt like one of the longest "Goodbye" scenes ever filmed. 3.75/10

Michael Gross doesn't have a large role but he does it well as an inventor of a time machine. The rest the cast are reasonably engaging as they travel back in time and try to avoid being eaten by a T Rex. In a nutshell this is a decent SciFi for a rainy day. If you enjoy low budget SciFi movies like the SciFi channel puts out this is one of the better ones they have released. A decent story and acting concerning time travel, with not to horrible of special effects make it a good rental or even a buy at the current six dollar price.

CA Luster

this movie was the worst movie i have ever seen. it should have been called jurassic park meets back to the future. it had a tremors feel to it i think that was due to gross being one of the main characters. the computer anamations were the worst i have ever seen. do your self a big favor and skip this one. i could not be paid to see this one again. it should be a no star movie

Step right up folks, and see plastic dinosaur heads, 3rd rate special effects of people jumping very slowly from airplanes, actors who're supposed to be living in 100,000 sporting LA blonde streaked hairdos and girls in MTV outdoor outfits. This movie is so terribly bad that I'm seriously thinking of buying it to show at parties, along with another horror special, Hands of Manos, made for probably a little more money--like 35 cents.

Filmed in some rocky canyon that's supposed to be premordial forest, the cast doesn't have a chance of saving this truly horrendous bomb. Christopher Atkins is shown several times aiming his trustly bow-and-arrow as he takes aim against a plastic dinosaur. An arrow is certainly the most destructive weapon in the world to kill a roaring dinosaur. and for some reason, the camera always moves closer to Atkins right eye as he prepares to slay the beast--the right eye staying on the screen for several seconds. Does this mean something? Atkins and his right eye?

Anyway, whenever the cast members see a monster, they look at it like it's a growling dog--expressing zero fear or horror. In another scene, they're supposedly terrorized by a giant croc. Except you never see the croc. The screen is filled with fangs and red images of some croc from another movie. and then the cast is terrorized again by something roraring off camera. They all stare at something behind the camera--but we never see it.

By this time, I had had enough and hit eject. My nightmares are filled with plastic heads of dinosaur being animated by a hidden hand, and then in one scene, you actually see the man beneath the dinosaur head as it bobs around in the air like it's just had a bad overdose of LSD.

We need more flicks like this to remind us of the days when Hollywood used to turn out genuine classics--like The thing, Alien, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. I immediately slipped John carpenter's The Thing into my machine and was lost in horror heaven.

The plot of this movie was average for a sci-fi film but it was totally ruined by the bad acting and the bad CGI. The creatures seemed to have been cut out of paper and the producers just made them move.

The acting is horrible and the CGI is really awful, just awful. Toward the end they are doing a shot on green screen where they are supposed to be in front of a roadway tunnel and all of a sudden you see a van drive right out of the tunnel and through the actors. They did not go to the trouble to remove it from the stock shot. Just awful.