Raptor

So wow seeing Eric Roberts I kinda expected this to be a better movie.

Yes I have seen and own the actual Carnosaur trilogy.

Also seen and own many Roger Corman movies.

This is well below average for those.

The biggest problem is they recycle quite a few scenes from earlier Carnos mostly from 3.

Even the ship scene lmao pretty obvious.

There is also a really bad one where a Bobcat turns into an older forklift.

All told Eric does good Corbin way over does it.

The various models and b movie actors do fine for what it is.

The FX are on par with similar movies using miniatures and such.

There is gratuitous blood and gore even for this type of movie and some quick nudity and clear sexualization if that matters to you.

Oy vey... Jurrasic Park got Corman-ized. As usual the plot is wafer thin, from 1 foot tall dinosaurs that weigh 150 pounds and leave tracks bigger than they are, to inexplicable science which uses lasers to keep the dinosaurs in check and poultry trucks which have chickens loose in cages large enough for big dogs (I've seen chicken trucks they are all in cages the size of shoe boxes). And all that is in the first 15 minutes of this disaster of a film. All the male actors are imbeciles (thinking a grizzly might be loose in the desert, constantly dropping items to give the raptor an easy kill) and the female actors all look like they just came from a modeling shoot for Fredrick's of Hollywood. The raptor itself is the worst thing since the Hobgoblins (from the movie of the same name), it looks like they had a hand puppet version and a plastic model for the "motion" shots. If you want a good movie to sit around and heckle MST3K style, this is gold. If you want competent film making and good acting... don't watch a Roger Corman film. Acting gets a 4 out 10, some of the players upon this stage did try. Story gets a 2 out of 10, it reads like a drunken storytelling session gone bad. Special effects gets a 2 out of 10, I've seen worse, but not many.

When 2 of the biggest b movie stars Eric Roberts and Corbin Bernsen are in a movie together for a paycheck you know you are in for a very bad movie, using scenes we saw before in carnasaur did anyone think no one would notice? And the scenes with the dinosaurs look awfully cheap like muppet show puppets the other actors in it are Roger Corman regulars, a re used soundtrack from humanoids from the deep.by the late James Horner . Probably the best part of this made for video movie. Poor Eric Roberts and Corbin Bernsen they must've really needed the money this would be a good candidate for Mystery Science theater 3000.

OK, so most people have noticed the thing with the orange men that do nothing, but what about all the other mistakes people?! 1) After the 'sex scene' ( i use the term lightly as it is about as sexy as cold sick), the actress (forgive me 4 not wanting to know her name) is wearing no lipstick wotsoeva, but when she is back inside the truck her lips r bright pink! 2) When someone reports that there are 'two dead bodies' in the back of a car the last thing you expect to see is two moving bodies (give us some credit people!). It's as though they could only afford 1 roll of film for each scene! 3) Thirdly, the particular part which had me rolling around laughin was wen u see a couple of fat dudes slowly jogging at a gentle rate and then one of the military peeps screaming into his walky-talky "we have employees moving at a rapid pace down the corridor". The fat guys running was jokes enough,but the comment as well?! 4) Everytime sum1 is wearing sunglasses u can see the cameras filming back @ u. Also, in one scene u can see a microphone taped inside a man's coat. 5) Not so much a mistake, but we timed the sex scene and it was 7mins and 41secs. Now correct me of i'm wrong, but a blatantly looped sex scene throughout which the couple stay in one position and dont even orgasm is hardly a turn-on. 6) Again, not so much a mistake as just being funny: when they go to the labs and talk about how they found top-secret info on the "internet" (what the f***?!!!). However, through the darkness, there was a glistening light, a sign of hope and glory that came in the form of the character... Lyle. For those who havent seen the film, picture this... You have decided to quit your job (which involved illegally breeding dinosaurs) and you're about to leave when your master-mind evil ex-boss asks you to go to the 'laser room' (wouldnt the name give it away?), where u know a T-Rex is being held. Now, for no earthly explainable reason u decide to go anyway and stand rite infront of the T-REx... Inevitably: you die.

I rest my case.

Roger Corman has enjoyed his shares of cinematic infamy in his illustrious low-budget career, spanning over 300 movies. While few (if any) would call him great, his films' obscure connections to underground culture (via reference, tribute, or influence) have ensured him a warped legacy of sorts. Throughout his career, he has also developed a bad habit of remaking his own films ("Piranha", "Humanoids from the Deep", "The Black Scorpion", etc.), without improving on them in the slightest. "Raptor", "written" and "directed" by "Jay Andrews" (Jim Wynorski, the man behind one of my favorite cinematic guilty pleasures, "Chopping Mall") takes that practice to a disturbing new low regarding Corman's mid-'90s "Carnosaur" trilogy.

Wynorski's credits are in quotes because "Raptor" isn't a tribute to the "Carnosaur" films, and not even a remake. "Raptor" IS the "Carnosaur" films, or at least the film's dinosaur-induced death scenes, haphazardly spliced together with trace elements of the original plot and some newly shot scenes (many of which consist of "dino's eye view" shots in a lame attempt to make the inserted scenes look less obvious). The "new" material was written around the footage, instead of vice versa, and is totally unremarkable, with huge gaps of logic (e.g. two separate teams are sent in by the military simply so footage from parts 2 and 3, where the soldiers had different uniforms, could be included), which is amazing considering how little logic plays into any of the "Carnosaur" films already. The actors' lack of any feeling in their characters (though in fairness, any character dimension is only presented in the script once, maybe twice) brings to mind the terribly wooden acting in 1950's b-films, and it certainly doesn't make anything between the ripped-off attack scenes worth watching. Even more embarrassing for the actors of the new scenes is when there is an obvious discrepancy in the physical build between the new actor and the actor in the original scene. When the only scene evoking any response in a film is the oldest trick in the horror book, the "spring-loaded animal", something is seriously wrong.

As it stands, this is a despicable practice in two b-grade figures (who need not worry about ruining their reputations, because they haven't got one) ripping off their own material, for the cheapest and quickest of dirty tricks, simply because they can (why else would anyone feel possessed to rip off a series meant to be a rip off of the "Jurassic Park" series?). There isn't much more I can say other than that this film carries my very highest recommendations AGAINST viewing; the only good thing about it (besides gazing at Melissa Braselle's navel) is that now I don't have to see any of the "Carnosaur" movies.