The Dinosaur Project

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Anakin S Oct 26, 2018 Scary and violent (and not suitable for kids), but rather well done. Excellent special effects. Not as good as Jurassic Park, but better than The Lost World: Jurassic Park. I enjoyed it. See more

Poe W Mar 27, 2017 the CGI is awful, the story lacks key components, the characters are unlikeable, the plots a jumbled mess and on top of that the camera work mocks and copies the found footage genre only to fail miserably. the only redeeming quality of this movie was in the end when the store I bought it from was willing to refund it for me. See more

Abraham S Mar 17, 2017 This movie could have been so good. It was a great idea. But it was not done very well... The main plot about finding dinosaurs was great. But the storyline followed / played out by the actors was pretty weak. And horrible ending. See more

Hagrid M Mar 6, 2017 What a fucking misleading poster, there's no fucking T-Rex in the movie. Sorry to spoil it, but don't look at this poster and expect to see a fucking T-Rex. I also didn't review the last two movies I saw (Era El Cielo and Love Clinic) because they're not available on here. With that said, on to the review. You know, outside of the Jurassic Park films, I've always found dinosaur films to be a little lame and dorky. I don't know why it is, but I've always felt that way. And I know that that's not exactly fair, to lump in all dinosaur films in existence into the same description, but that's just been my experience. And, as far as I can tell, there have also been no found footage film about dinosaurs. Well, none until this one at least. I can't quite understand why this film really existed in the first place. Like, why would you go out of your way to try and get this film produced? That perhaps sounds a little harsh, but I don't intend it that way. But it's just the fact that there's nothing to this movie, absolutely nothing. It's not an awful movie, don't get me wrong. For what, I'm sure, was a low-budget found footage movie, this is a competently made movie from a technical standpoint. It's got everything that people hate about the genre, but if we're being objective, this isn't a horrifyingly made movie. It's just not. But, outside of the fact that it had better CGi than I would expected for the dinosaurs, there's absolutely nothing to this movie. This group of explorers goes into the Congo to explore the investigate a cryptid that the locals call Mokele Mbembe, who is thought to be a dinosaur. On the way there, the group's helicopter is attacked by flying reptiles, which causes the chopper to crash in the jungle. So, basically, the story is about this group trying to find their way back to civilization so they can be rescued. And that might sound like it's not so bad, for those of you who haven't seen the movie. But I'll be straight up here, the movie does less than nothing with that. You have a group that, really, you should feel sympathy for. You should want them to get out of this situation, but there's not even that. The movie doesn't really know what it wants its story to be. Does it wanna be about a father and son repairing their broken relationship? Does it wanna be about a jealous partner, who feels the spotlight should have been his instead of the person who actually got it? Or is it just meant to be a stupid movie about dinosaurs doing shit? It definitely wasn't the latter. Because, while the movie is called The Dinosaur Project, they're not actually present that much. I mean, they're there for sure, but it's more about the humans instead of the dinosaurs. And this wouldn't be so much of a problem if they had one thing and one thing only. Can you guess what that is? I'm sure you can. Interesting characters. The film's characters are some of the blandest people you will ever meet. They have no personalities whatsoever. The one that does, the partner who feels he should have had the spotlight, ends up coming out of nowhere. I mean he does an interview early on in the film that shows that there's some tension there, but there's no tease of dissension any time during the trip to the jungle. He just becomes a dick, literally, out of nowhere. It would have been more satisfying if they had built it up throughout the movie up until that point so it, at least, wouldn't have felt out of place. But, and if you have a shitty memory, you don't even remember the interview at the beginning. It is what it is, but I just felt they shouldn't have even bothered with this. It just didn't work. Another thing is the fact that, realistically speaking, this isn't ever a horror movie. Nor is it really an action-adventure. I don't know what the fuck it actually is. This movie defies description and not in a good way, like Swiss Army Man or Save the Green Planet. Those films work because they mix and match so many different genres into one insane piece of art, that the fact that it defies description is a boon. This isn't the case for this movie. They don't attempt to be inventive or creative in any way, shape or form. So the fact that it lacks an actual identity is, really, disastrous for this movie and their hope of finding an audience. Dinosaurs fans won't like it because it doesn't feature many dinosaurs. Horror fans won't like it because there's very little actual horror. What does this movie want to be? Other than just a small drop in a wide ocean of found footage movies that fail to find much of an audience. I've seen worse, for sure, but there's nothing about this movie that I liked. The CGi for the dinosaurs was actually pretty good considering the budget, which I know was low, but that's about it. There was nothing else I got into. I cannot recommend this movie in the slightest. See more

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