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The Lost World idea of finding dinosaurs in a remote part of the planet is not new. Peru as a location had the potential, but it was never to be. The idea of driving along a dirt road and labeling it remote for the purpose of the film is ludicrous.

Had they spent a week in a canoe and then 2 weeks trekking to their destination using tribal Indians as guides I would have believed it. Wearing sleeveless tops in a malaria-infested rain forest at night, camping in tents and carrying a table and chair into the jungle just doesn't make sense. Their packs aren't big enough for a day trip let alone a multi-day hike. The nights are remarkably bug-free, I don't know any animal that would come around a camp with a lite fire in it. They find an albino python and don't know its albino? They can hear sounds of something big for 3 days every night but no tracks or scats are found and the scientists don't even seem interested. No discussion on what it could be? Was it a Tapir or Pecari, or Caiman? No picket at night to set up cameras and try and find out what it was. How did they navigate, as I didn't see a compass or GPS on anyone? How did the rain forest suddenly become wet sclerophyll?

In the end, I just watched to see how many things I could spot that were wrong. .

Oh, and the cameraman is an idiot. In all very disappointing.

Really not much to say. Its just not any good. I see some glowing reviews here, but that must be the film crew and their relatives writing. If you are going to use this kind of hand-held amateur cam, you need to do better than this. I think 3 is a fair value, cause its not the worst I have seen, but I think I deserve my money back.... its really borderline fraud to charge people for watching this one. Some of the acting is not as bad as a 3, but the overall experience is no good. And its too long as well, I got really bored the last half hour.

If you still want to watch this, consider your self warned.

Good luck and God speed.

Wanted to waste some time and I most certainly did!! Shame a lot of low budget films nowadays (and this seemed very much like one!), seem to want to film in a self-filmed view! This film is not worth wasting your time on I'm afraid! Sometimes you get a lower budget gem and its worth it, like tremors, but this isn't anything great! I'd rather watch Cloverfield and thats saying something! Have given it 2 stars because I'm sure I've seen worse, but shut it out of my memory, and it did waste a little time (although not the running length of the film because fast-forward was used!! Thought I'd give a real review rather than sugar-coat it!!

I hate it when a movie has some qualities that are overshadowed by such awfulness that it totally destroys the film., For me, seeing the characters, most of which seem to know which end of the camera is the important bit seemed to offer promise. But seeing the directors take on what makes a film is both disgusting, and ludicrously bad film making. For instance, every time the camera sets down, it is focused on the female leads breast, crotch, or ass, and remains there while the dialogue plays out.,, or it sits there for some time while in no way advancing the story. Its like it was calculated what shot would appeal to juvenile prurient interest, and tries to exploit it. Then the directors involvement as an actor, talk about heavy handed, there are many, many shots of the cameraman, focusing in for a nattering boring close up that is exactly perfectly focused, no matter how terrified the cameraman is supposed to be. Why are only those shots in perfect focus you might ask. I suspect its due to lack of knowledge of his craft, ego, and a lot of poor taste.

The characters that had the potential of more interest, Tim who seemed to overact every time he had his glasses on, which made a character more like a cartoon; but when he took the glasses off he was someone else. Then there was the alpha male, who specialized in predator, and primate behaviour studies, never really did anything very interesting at all.

Then there is the special effect dinosaurs, looked poorly crafted, shown in very bad light, blurred by motion, and only visible for a second, or two.

From lighting, to camera angles, to acting, to plot, to writing, to acting, to directing, there was such unevenness that the most I could have given the film is a three. However the 1/10 I gave it still stands, as it was such a waste of time from out of my life.

Having an obnoxious cameraman on found footage is the equivalent of seated next to a loud texting person in cinema. Extinction has a couple good moments and the setting is presentable, but almost half of the movie is spent on bickering. If it's for realism of human drama, it's doubtful that actual documentary people would argue as much and the banter is not exactly appealing. For the encounter with alleged monster, it has so little impact since the effect is far from compelling, so barely anything works in Extinction.

The film follows the journey of scientists and filmmakers to the depth of Amazon. They soon find out that the forest hides a very insidious secret. The use of found footage is mainly to create a sense of involvement for audience, yet the movie has a very confrontational cast. Nearly everyone would mumble in antagonizing manner almost in every scene, especially the cameraman James who is utterly annoying.

He would instigate people and react poorly when interacting with others. It's probably for humor purpose, but it gets tiring very fast. There are the rudimentary comments on the existence of creature which are plodding the already uninteresting endeavor. Some scenes involving actual fauna is a bit better to establish the authenticity, though these are few between all the squabbles.

As expected there would be unclear shots as the monster eventually reveals itself. It's not half bad since a couple of these instances are engaging. However, the effect for said monster is not convincing. The movie doesn't have the luxury of smooth mix of usual camcorder view and CG like Troll Hunter or Cloverfield. Not to mention the cast is unfriendly, it won't garner much sympathy.

In the end, Extinction doesn't offer an amusing journey, let alone the grandeur encounter the poster falsely advertises.

This is a strangely watchable movie. It is found footage and follows the genre quite faithfully. But is has an element of tongue in cheek about it that brings a slight attraction.

The hero, strangely enough, is the cameraman who is brought in as a last minute substitute on a very BBC-like documentary project. Strange because he is a complete nob; inappropriate, crass and somewhat stupid, but at the same time with the innocence of an everyman. And because of that he is strangely likable - probably because we all unfortunately have a friend like him somewhere in our circle.

So when faced with a completely impossible situation in the jungle, he acts like most of us probably would - trying to shout quietly, leaving the camera light on in dangerous times, having a dangerously daft curiosity and other very believable stuff.

It's not going to beat out Jurassic World for quality CGI and in-your-face-believable-graphics, and the jungle looks suspiciously like friendly English woodlands, but I could empathise, and that for me was enough for a couple of hours.

Yes this is found footage too. After you're done rolling your eyes, hear me out though. This actually balances horror and comedic moments. And it does a good job. It's actually more of a thriller, that really emphasizes the exploring aspect of the story. So there are not many "boo" moments to be found here. Which I think is great. Those fake scares never did anything for me.

Also we have practical effects (par a few shots that had to be done digitally), which is really great. And the "costumes" are good too, which give the movie gravitas and I have much respect for the filmmaker going this way. It might not have been necessary to cast himself into the movie, but even that works out fine, because he leaves the heavy lifting to the other actors. Really good to see a movie like this

Oh another found footage film ! When you've seen one you've them all and you can only judge them on how scary the scary moments are . To be honest the only film in this sub-genre was GRAVE ENCOUNTERS that impressed me simply because because the scares were genuine . That said EXTINCTION does sound fairly intriguing because it's a British film that involves a scientific expedition to the Amazon jungle and from what I could gather from the location guide on this page it was filmed in Wales ! The Welsh valleys doubling for a South American jungle. This should be interesting

To be fair to director Adam Spinks and the production team do their utmost best to conceal the fact that the location is more Celtic than Latin . They do this filming everything in woodland and as someone who has done a lot of travelling one clump of trees looks very much like another clump of trees no matter where you are in the world and it doesn't necessarily equate heat and blazing sunshine are connected . Just get the cast to wear shorts and tee-shirts and if you've got a cute actress in the shape of Sarah Mac running around all hot and sweaty no red blooded male viewer is going to complain . But Spinks goes further and involves animals such as boa constrictors and big hairy tarantulas which adds to the illusion . The only thing that doesn't work is the reptile monsters themselves which aren't really convincing and isn't helped by having them appearing on screen a bit too long . There is also an annoying aspect of jump cut editing that draws your attention to the fact that it isn't found footage in the true sense . But if someone who enjoys the found footage genre you'll probably enjoy this one

Was expecting a little more - but the high-school dinosaur effects killed it. Sorry - never going to get a big thumbs-up from me. (Plus the "lost footage" camera thing has been very over used...) Turned it off after just over an hour. Luckily my wine was nice... The acting was okay. The sound effects were good. The tension of the "animals" coming into the movie wasn't too bad. The eventual arrival of "a dinosaur" was absolutely terrible. Hopefully the actors have other projects. My room mate didn't come downstairs to watch it, and thankfully so... If you thought this would be an awesome scary horror dinosaur flick then don't bother. Very disappointed. Why don't I have Fox Sports...?

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Just. Wow.

But in a really bad way.

I can only assume Prime recommended this to me because I binged the original Jurassic Park trilogy (which, of course, is excellent) so I must want more dinosaurs right? RIGHT?!

Except... This isn't anything like Jurassic Park! It's just utter incompetence wrapped in a dismal veneer of turd pancakes.

The closest description I can give is that it's more like the modern Jumanji but with 2% of the budget.

If you use it as a drinking game, maybe you will have a good time. Do a shot every time there is a predictable plot move, an unnecessary movement by the actors to be more dynamic, poor CGI and a blatant rip-off of another film and you will be well and truly sozzled within 30 mins. Enjoy!

It so bad one of them is that you can not see the main character and the other one is that the t-rex look like something you would find at a kids theme park with bad robots and it just dull and boring.

I feel the need to explain the story behind this movie and my experience with it. Back in 2016, I went to England. During that trip I bought some DVD's. One of these movies was this movie. It then sat on my shelf at home up until today, where I went and watched it. I hoped, I hoped it would be ok. But it wasn't. The movie uses animatronics, I would be bumping this up a 2 for that. However in 1 shot you can literally see the people moving them, and in another shot they use CGI. The characters are all wooden and aren't acted well at all. The camera man is bad, in the sense he just films everything and makes crass and just annoying comments. The setting is obviously not the amazon jungle, and the writing is laughable. There is one character in the movie who I guess is supposed to be shy on camera? but oh god it's awful, it's unbearably awkward. Overall, save yourself the horror of this. I see the vision behind this film, but I just can't give this anything higher.

Be prepared to use subtitles if you aren't an Aussie!!! Background music and sound effects at the same level as speech, whispering with words flowing together.... Cannot understand without subtitles. Major distraction, can't see the movie... Only readable. The camera work leaves so much to be desired, almost all close up shots and jarring around, the kind that makes you sea-sick. Could have been so much better with voices you could hear and without the (Cloverfield) effect!

We need to know, this film is a Series B. For a B Movie with a low budget its a great movie. Have a nice history, a lot of suspense, a acting is acceptable, and have some good visual and audio effects. Overall its enjoyable and for people that love movies like Blair witch, clover field, rec , its similar. For a B movie its a 9 or 10. The camera Angles, focus, the lighting, its very good, causes some ansious and makes the experience more real to the spectator. ITs not a Jurassic Park movie, but the review of 3/4 are very poor. The Films have a many parts of action, some little humor, maybe we will see a second movie. Cheers

I liked the environmentalist angle of the group. The cameraman constantly talking was rather annoying, but overall following the group's trek to find the ecological consequences of human encroachment in the jungle was interesting to watch. The build up to what was living there was cool. After the predator attacks, the movie is not as interesting to me but Overall the movie was ok. It is a lot better than other similar movies I've found on streaming.

Tbh.. I only wanted to watch the movie for Neil Newbon. I saw the trailer. Knew right away it wouldn't blow through the roof. CGI ofc not good even for its time. But.. for a low budget film, it's not half bad.

The acting isn't unbearable. I just don't like how they made the cameraman so annoying. I understand trying to add humor. But there's good comedy relief; then there's just, dick energy. I feel like they could've done a tad better with the realism. Like it's supposed to be a remote area yet well driven, flat dirt roads. Supposed to be bug ridde. Yet little to no bug etc.

Overall not terrible.