Age of Dinosaurs (2013)

The Worst Film Ever

Brilliant and touching

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

AGE OF DINOSAURS is undoubtedly the cheesiest Asylum film I've yet watched, and there are plenty of contenders for that category. This is a shameless rip-off of JURASSIC PARK with almost exactly the same set-up and execution, right down to the Veliciraptor-emulating dinosaurs stalking a girl through a stainless steel kitchen. The last twenty minutes take the action on to the streets and rip off THE LOST WORLD in turn, and it's all ridiculously and gloriously stupid.This film cries out to be treated as an unintentional comedy in much the same way as the SHARKNADO films. The whole thing is ridiculously bad, from the cheesy acting to the cheesy direction and even cheesier dinosaurs. CGI effects are used copiously as expected, and they're all rubbish. The most surprising thing about this production is the two old-timers they roped in to appearing. First up is a grey haired Treat Williams, still playing the action hero in his advancing years; second is Ronny Cox in another typecast villain turn (after ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL), looking so aged as to be almost unrecognisable.

Expecting something lame from Asylum is natural; but this dinosaur movie is not totally lame, but close. Justin(Ronny Cox)is the CEO of the GenetSharp corporation that has discovered "flesh-regeneration technology". Since he's the head honcho, why not try it on his own crippled legs. Success leads to the bright idea of bringing back dinosaurs with only a single sample of DNA. Ex-firefighter Gabe Jacobs(Treat Williams) and his teenage daughter Jade(Jillian Rose Reed)manage tickets to a ceremony showing off living dinosaurs at a GeneteSharp auditorium with protective precautions in place. Guess what? The experiment goes awry and over a dozen dinosaurs break free, with the audience becoming the prey of prehistoric predators. If that is not enough, the creatures get loose from the building and now the citizens of Los Angeles join the chaos. The CGI has plenty of room to be better, but how high can your standards be for a B monster flick? Also in the cast: Arthur Richardson, Max Aria, Joshua Michael Allen, Julia Paul and Jose Rosette.

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.

When a biogenetics company announces they have recreated dinosaurs and brought them back to life, their escape into Los Angeles forces a firefighter to race to save both his daughter and the city from the rampaging beasts.This here turned out to be quite a fun if typical Sci-Fi Channel creature feature which means that a lot of the issues present are quite familiar to those with experience in this field. As expected, the CGI is pretty terrible with the usual inconsistencies present where creatures appear to shrink and grow in scale depending on the sequence provided and really don't have too many scenes where it's all consistent with everything else around them. As well, the fact that the misappropriation of size between the different creatures is another factor to deal with, as the film doesn't make any sort of historical accuracies to the different species, mangling the statistics among the different creatures and getting them wrong all-to-frequently. On top of that is the traditional stand-by of looking way too fake and generated outside the set, with their pixelated appearance and design looking none-to-real and being way too obvious about the computerized necessity for their input into the story. That aside, this one wasn't too bad, as there's a lot of fast and quite vicious dinosaur attack scenes that run the range from one-on-one confrontations to being overwhelmed by the size or numbers of the other species and even including a full-scale assault with a military helicopter firing away at the creatures which is quite exciting. The fact that the majority of those scenes are done with realistic-looking puppets or props makes it all the more interesting since they look like they're interacting with the cast for once and it manages to look rather nicely on it's own being so close to the true being. This factor alone saves the film tremendously, and in conduction with the fine action on display makes it really worthwhile.Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.