Overrated and overhyped

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

OK its not like I expected a lot. I mean its a giant monster movie so my expectations were low. But as others have said outside of the tropical location for most of the movie it didn't have a lot of pluses.Let's see here: 1. Although the movie characters constantly shoot at the monster with automatic weapons the CGI monster never shows a speck of blood or sign of a single wound until the end. They even hit the monster with a harpoon then have to untie the rope from the boat to keep the monster from pulling them under. Yet later the harpoon and rope are gone. Once again no blood or wound.2. They blaze away forever with said automatic weapons and the clips NEVER run out of ammo. Which is a good thing because they almost never even HAVE any extra ammo except on the coast guard boat.3. When they dive they find a wooden boat that is supposed to date back to the days when the Spanish looted the Mayans. Said boat had absolutely no coral growing on it. Now even if the explosion uncovered the boat it wouldn't have blown ALL the coral off it.4. The monster seems to be of variable size. I guess that could be a matter of point of view but the fact that it swims so well in the ocean but has no flippers and yet walks/runs of land just like its a land creature vice a water creature is unusual. It ALSO seems to walk on the bottom of the ocean and leave footprints.5. While the bends are mentioned while they are getting ready to dive later in the movie, at the beginning of the movie they set off explosives that would have certainly killed all the divers from the shock wave or if not the bends would have killed them. One of the first group of divers is found floating on the surface alive. I guess he came up in stages to prevent the bends while unconscious.6. So they go to an abandoned military base. In theory its been abandoned for decades. Never mind in the tropics it would be so overgrown it would be unfindable, they not only find it they are able to get an old junk heap of a generator to work so they have electric power to use an ancient radio so they can call for help.7. And this abandoned military base had a stocked armory and a working airplane and MOST of this stuff didn't even really look dusty or dirty.8. The monster is able to lift the front of its body out of the water far enough to smash down and sink at LEAST 5 boats. You see floating items after-wards but the boats themselves all sink like rocks ie the boats don't shatter and leave parts of the boat on the surface just coolers and such.So in summary while these type movies require you to to suspend belief this one had so many plot holes it was almost unwatchable. Then there was the horrible acting. :o)

First of all, I need to clarify - no this is not a masterpiece. But if you are on this page, you have probably seen Sharktopus, Sharknado, maybe Age of Dinosaurs....something of that ilk. If not, welcome stranger to a whole new world! Poseidon Rex is about an aquatic dinosaur that is woken from its slumber to kill people in a not overly gory CGI way, usually by wiping out their boat along with the passengers. Some of the acting is somewhat poor, but this is partly some of the movie's charm. You chuckle at the awfulness. Basically, the storyline is.....who cares? You have an aquatic dinosaur on the loose, coming onto land, killing people whilst a beautiful female scientist and her chums seek to do something about it. The CGI is at times terrible, the acting at times worse than terrible, but the locations are nice, it's a fun and cheap movie for a Friday night when you fancy (and will likely need) an alcoholic beverage. I can't believe the low score it's getting. I love it and have it twice in 7 months. yes really. So, if you want decent characterisation, well, lets face it - it's called Poseidon Rex. If you want a great story...same answer. But it's undeniable fun if you like cheesy cheapfests like the aforementioned Sharknado etc. I loved it. Give it a try, you might too. if you don't, then sorry for your loss of 80mins but if you do enjoy it, it will make your life so much better won't it.

I have a bad addiction to SyFy original films, and I unfortunately see almost all of them. This one actually had a decent plot and could have been done VERY well if it had a Hollywood (really anything but TV) budget. Out of all of the SyFy movies I have seen, it followed the same basic plot, a giant monster of some kind comes out of the ocean and attacks crappy actors, who were written by crappy writers and directed by a crappy director. But this one wanted SO BADLY to be GOOD! The T-Rex was actually ALMOST really cool looking. It ALMOST didn't look like a teenager in a computer class made him. All in all, it was a decent film, almost like a tribute to Godzilla, not a rip off mind you, because this actually was worth a watch. Three stars out of ten is fair for this, and it should be kept in mind before watching this. Any fan, or not fan, of SyFy, should check this one out!

As a big fan of B Movies, I've seen my fair share of films about marine based dinosaurs, normally their shoehorned into being about the Loch Ness Monster, but the crew of Poseidon Rex blew most of their budget on a more exotic location, so this time we're off to Belize for our prehistoric nonsense.The plot, following a thoroughly uncharismatic swashbuckling rogue of a treasure hunter (played by Brian Krause. I've no idea what I've seen Brian Krause in before, but his appearance prompted me to blurt out "oh **** off not him again") who manages to accidentally free a hitherto unknown prehistoric predator while searching for Mayan gold. He finds himself teaming up with the Coast Guard, a busty marine biologist, 2 holidaymakers and their diving instructor to put an end to the menace before it destroys Belize.It's largely by the numbers stuff, with the only real surprise being how brutal it is with some of the main cast's mortality. We've got a villainous human more concerned by chasing Jax for his gold than the fact there's a bloody great man eating dinosaur tramping about behind him, the race against time as the military threaten overly aggressive action and the stock 'shock' ending that anyone with an ounce of self-awareness will see coming, but it's really not all that bad. I mean it's stupid (the P-Rex apparently has a mean pair of stilts to let it stand at full height over a boat in the MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN) the CGI is pants and the acting is average at best, but it has a certain honest charm to it. It knows what it is and doesn't try to do anything smart.I'd be lying if I said I ever wanted to see Poseidon Rex again, or will even really think about it the minute after I hit 'Submit' on this, but the fact it knows its place as a film about a bloody great dinosaur attacking a secluded community, yet doesn't degenerate into a horrible semi-parody that winks at the audience in a "we know this sucks, but isn't it funny?" way like the 300 Shark-variation films on the market right now really endears it to me. If you like B Movie nonsense, there are worse ways to spend a night, but at the same time you probably would be better off digging out Godzilla or The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.