Age of Dinosaurs
May. 11,2013 NRUsing breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs
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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.
How many attempts have been made to make a prehistoric monster in the modern day movies have their been? None of them have even come close to the Jurassic Park series, including this movie.SPOILER BEGINS This 'story' is about several species of prehistoric dinosaur being recreated through genetic engineering. They are first shown to the world in LA.Obviously they all manage to escape their cages and reek havoc in the city.It is up to Gabe Jacobs (Treat Williams) and his daughter Jade (Jillian Rose Reed) to save the city while trying to save themselves of course.That's all you need to know really.SPOILER ENDS The screenplay written by Hank Woon Jr was atrocious, the direction by Joseph J Lawson was to say the least dismal and the special effects were reminiscent of Ray Harryhausen. Ray I feel provided us with much better and realistic effects.The only redeeming factor of this movie is that it included both Treat Williams and Jillian Rose Reed who put in good performances with the terrible script they had to play with.All in all this movie will not go down in the annals of movie history as a classic, more likely in the category of movie which should never have been made.
I gave this a four because I like Treat Williams and it was fun to watch Jillian Rose Reed jiggle. Nice to see Ronny Cox get a role where he is not an evil bad guy for a change. Of course he is not to informed about the things going on in his company, so in a way he is ultimately responsible for all the death and destruction that is unleashed when a whole bunch of dinosaurs created by his company are set loose on LA (no real lose). I found the articulation of some of the CGI creatures to be3 suspect. They just didn't seem to move right. It did start to get pretty ridiculous in the last many minutes. The daughter jumps for the chopper, grabs dad's hand/arm, slips out and starts to fall. Then a pteranodon swoops by and grabs her out of mid air. First I don't think it could support the girl's weight while in flight. Second well the first reason is enough. Then there is the scene at the Hollywood sign where Treat pushes the flying lizard that got trapped in the crashed helicopter over the edge using one finger. This is a typical SyFy channel under produced and written movie.
Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs.We have the benefit of a film starring Treat Williams ("Dead Heat") and Ronny Cox ("RoboCop"), but that is about the best thing you can say for this film. It is exactly what you expect, with such an obvious rip-off of "Jurassic Park" that I am surprised they even bothered to make it.If you like the cheese that comes out of the Asylum, feel free to check out this piece of work. If not, avoid it. There is no way I am going to try to convince anyone to see this turkey.