Carnosaur Redux
Added 1/25/2009
For those who come to RAPTOR after having seen any of the CARNOSAUR trilogy will feel right at home--and that is not a good thing. RAPTOR is less a film that can stand on its own and more one that is a messy compilation of key scenes from all three. All of the above deal with JURASSIC PARK themes that relate to cloning dinosaur DNA to recreate such monsters so that in the words of RAPTOR's resident villain Corbin Bernsen they can serve as intelligent aids to humanity or trusted super weapons. It is difficult to repress a smile at the naivete involved in accepting either absurd premise. Eric Roberts is a sheriff who investigates a series of killings made by some unknown feral animal. Melissa Brasselle is the busty beauty who persists in walking about in fetching outfits, thus suggesting that she is the real reason why anyone would watch this stinker. Corbin Bernsen plays a bad guy who blathers continually about how science will benefit regardless of how high the raptors body count reaches. And the real stars are the raptors who look nothing like raptors at all but more like micro T-Rexes manufactured by Mattel. If one to count the logical flubs and just plain silly plot contrivances, one might begin with the government's decision to send in a team of SWAT soldiers wearing typical fatigues as uniforms. But then, inexplicably the government sends in a second team as a back up, this time wearing bright red jump suits, only because in one of the original CARNOSAUR versions there was such an orange team sent in and the director forgot to edit out the discrepency. Camera angles are used which give no sense of size or comparison. One can almost see the strings holding the raptor puppets up. The climactic battle between Roberts in an earth moving machine against one of the bigger dinosaurs is taken right from Sigourney Weaver in ALIENS, but in Roberts' case his machine is clearly a shrunken device taken from the set of GODZILLA. What emerges by the end of RAPTOR is the sinking sensation that one has been snockered into wasting nearly two hours of one's life on sheer stupidity.
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If I could have given No stars, it would be too many!
Added 1/25/2009
This was THE cheesiest movie I have EVER seen! Yep...at the end, the bobcat changes into a forklift. Instead of wasting your money on this movie, send the cash to me. I could use it! The "actors" must have been really hard up for $$!
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This is a prime example of Camp done ... Campy
Added 12/21/2008
If you're looking for cinima excellence, this is NOT it. But it is Camp with a capital C. The rubber-puppet dinos and the busty blonde pretty much tell the tale in this flick that has the same plot points that Jurrasic Park does, but is SOOOO different.
If you like Camp done right, check this out. If not, don't bother.
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Gory, Cheesy, and Often Over-the-Top, but Still Good
Added 9/21/2008
Raptor is a rare kind of movie.(You don't see many movie's that take clips of other movie's and smash them all into one film that tries to be scary.) The Raptors look like people in rubber costumes, and eat people before they escape from any factory. In fact, within 2 minutes of the movie comes "the jeep scene", in which a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex(who I guess they try to pass as a small Raptor, even though the scene is from Roger Cormans Carnosaur), brutally mauls 3 teenagers. It hops inside the jeep they're in, and soon comes the over-the-top gore. That's easily the most violent scene in the movie, so if you can get past those first 3 minutes, you'll be O.K. The editor of this movie must be the dumbest man on earth, because there are mistakes everywhere. (It does make the film pretty funny though.) SEE a T. Rex from Carnosaur eat a cop from Raptor. HEAR a main character say "Listen to the doctor honey, he's got a degree." SEE a tractor from Carnosaur kill a T. Rex in Raptor. SEE a cop turn into a woman, when he was really a guy.HEAR people talk to someone when it's night, and SEE the person reply when it's day. SEE dirt change to blacktop. SEE a woman alone in an elevator get eaten by a Raptor with (all of a sudden) a lot of people. Also SEE a flashlight that she didn't have drop from her hands. These,(and many more) are what make this film funny. Also, the actors look sooo bored, and are two-dimensional. And if you want to know, these are all the movies that basically made Raptor: , Carnosaur,Carnosaur II, and Carnosaur 3: Primal Species. So I guess you can call this Carnosaur 4, When Rubbery Monsters Attack. It's worth a Saturday afternoon though. 3 Stars, or a Grade: C-.
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This is one goofy movie.
The raptor monsters look like people who are running around in rubber suits. In fact as I think about that's probably what they are.
The writing has a similar quality.
Still if you've got nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon you might enjoy it.
Jeff Marzano
Snakehead Terror
Spiders II: Breeding Ground
Raptor Island
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