Triassic World

Right, well with a movie named "Triassic World" and with a movie company like The Asylum standing behind its creation, we all know what we are in for here. Yes, another mockbuster, and this time let's guess it must be on the "Jurassic World 2" movie, just a hunch eh.

I would definitely be one of the first to raise an eyebrow and be suspicious of a movie such as this. But then again, every now and again does The Asylum actually put out a fairly entertaining movie, regardless of the cash-in on whatever movie they were toying with.

"Triassic World" actually turned out to be better than anticipated. Was it a predictable movie? You betcha. But there was just something fundamentally cheesy to the movie which actually made it worth watching.

And The Asylum really upped their game here in terms of special effects. I will say that, for the most part, then the dinosaurs actually looked quite decent. There were the occasional moment where it was blatantly just downright horrible CGI, but most of the time it was convincing enough. And that impressed CGI part actually brought a lot of value to the movie.

The acting in "Triassic World", however, was rather wooden and rigid, and was every bit as to be expected from a movie such as this. People were just not overly convincing throughout the movie.

"Triassic World" is the type of movie that you watch once and never again. Provided the fact that you actually can endure these type of shameless cash-in on upcoming or potential blockbuster movies from other huge movie companies.

This is such an obvious rip off of other movies, from the title to the enclosed environment similar to Deep Blue Sea. It lacks all the humour of the Sharknado type films and is ridiculously predictable with two dimensional characters being killed off in turn. The gore level is good, but it seems big savings were made in the dinosaur special effects, with them looking more like 1950s stop go animation than modern graphics.

Overall, probably worth a watch if there's nothing better on TV, but not worth going out of your way to see it.

It's predictable. Secret facility? Check. "For the greater good"? Check. But greed the biggest motive? Check. Nothing can go wrong? Check. Something goes wrong? Check. Lots of screaming, running, people getting eaten? Check.... Yet this movie is fun enough, because the acting isn't as bad as some of the B-movies I've seen. I actually rooted for a few of them to make it (which doesn't always happen) No, it's not exactly Oscar-material, but for a sad, rainy afternoon with a cup of hot coffee on the couch, it's good enough.

Did Asylum invent the "camera shake"? Or did they copy that as well? Maybe some day they will release original movies without riding on the coat tails of REAL movie releases. Stop naming their movies to trip up some people into being suckered into watching and releasing them same time as the REAL movies. I don't see how these guys make any money with these flicks. Maybe its just for a tax write off? I can sum up this movie (and all their other movies) in a few words. 1) Poor acting, 2) Poor story, 3) Little to no special effects (When in doubt, just shake the camera for action, horror or just low on budget.

Have made no secret in the past numerous times of hating most of The Asylum's films with a passion. Still see their films out of curiosity as well as low-budget film completest sake. There is the curiosity as to whether they are capable of something watchable (occasionally they have) and there is something compulsive about their badness.

Was not expecting much from 'Triassic World'. On top of being from The Asylum, it just sounded terribly derivative to the point of being a blatant rip off, the cover/poster looked cheap, it had a low rating and the reviews were less than promising. So in all honesty was expecting something terrible. Seeing 'Triassic World' with an open mind and fairness intended, it turned out to be not near as terrible as expected and much better than most of The Asylum's previous films. At the same time, didn't find it a particularly good film either, pretty lame actually.

Just for the record, am somebody who hates being critical believe it or not and is more often than not encouraging and aims to be balanced and tries to evaluate rather than completely gushing or bashing, so will always severely object to being called an armchair critic/expert that is thrown around a lot immaturely.

There are positives. There is colour and atmosphere in the setting and some slickness in some of the shots. The music is not over-bearing, variety-less or monotonous, even when not being exactly memorable.

A few of the dinosaurs are fun and have some personality that avoids going too far on the goofiness or scare factor.

On the other hand, the limited budget shows in particularly the not always very well organised editing and the mostly quite amateurish effects (with the odd reasonable one). Most of the camera work is similarly disorganised. The dinosaurs don't steal the show as much as they should and their contributions not particularly memorable or well used. The human characters are underwritten and have little development or endearing personality with so many silly and less than logical behaviours and decisions (a bugbear of mine and have found myself using it a fair bit recently). None of the actors look comfortable in their roles and don't seem to be having fun at all.

Also found too much of the dialogue on the wrong side of dumb and cheesy, complete with some soapy moments, and that it didn't flow very well. The film is extremely derivative, interesting premise with far too over-familiar execution that has nothing new. The lack of imagination and suspense also hurts the film, too much evokes cringing and the thrills are sporadic. The direction felt like they were not in control of the material and not at ease with the genre.

Concluding, lame but could have been worse. 3/10 Bethany Cox