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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.

I camne by chance upon this movie and gave it a shot due to Roberts and Bensen acting together but what came out was a most boring 8 minutes sex scene of the late Lorissa McComas and a reminder of a childhood movie about a T-Rex battling with a buldozer ( copied by Ripley battling the Allien Queen)....the 4 stars go for the body of Lorissa ( two for either tit)....not sure if she ever had a carreer in adult movies..have to check this out. Being not a US citizen I read that there is a cult circling around a series of movies about the Carnosaurus species which this ain't (lack of bony eyebrows)..that is perfectly acceptable if we think that British movies like "When Dinosaurs ruled the Earth" also has cult viewers.

Answer: When it's two movies edited together.

I saw this on the video shelf and thought, "Oh, good. Another low-budget dinosaur movie. Haven't seen one of those since Carnosaur 3." So I rented it and sat down to watch it. The first scene opens with three teenagers riding around the desert in a jeep. "Well," I thought, "This is sort of like that scene in Carnosaur." Then I realized, it WAS that scene from Carnosaur. At first, I thought they gave me the wrong tape, but this was a scene from the middle of Carnosaur, not the beginning. Actually, it was my favorite scene from Carnosaur. Now I was seriously disappointed. Instead of watching a new dinosaur movie, I had been tricked into watching clips from two old dinosaur movies edited together. The other reviewers of this movie miss one point in their otherwise on-target reviews. The movie doesn't just use stock footage in place of special effects; it exists for the sole purpose of using stock footage in place of special effects. The script was only added to string together scenes from the first two carnosaur movies. Every line of dialogue exists only to explain why these completely unrelated events are popping up like plastic gophers in a Chuck-e-Cheese game. If you want dinosaurs, rent the Carnosaur movies again.

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.

My brother-in-law and his wife brought the movie over one night to watch on video. This should have given me the first clue that it would be horrible. It was. From the very first frame to the last this movie is terrible. It does not even quite register as a "B" movie. Maybe an N or a P. One of the worst 5 movies I've ever seen. From the rubber raptor-on-a-stick to the still-breathing corpses in the car to the beyond horrible closing lines, this movie isn't worth watching if you've received it for free.

Skip this one altogether--unless you want to play Mystery Science Theatre with your friends, it will provide good ammunition.

The only reason there is a question mark in parenthesis is NOT because I haven't seen every film released in 2001 thus far. It's because this film was only made PARTLY in 2001. The rest of it was stolen from Roger Corman's OTHER dinosaur films, Carnosaur 1-3.

I have a confession to make. "Carnosaur 2" is perhaps one of my favorite B-movies. It borrows so much from James Cameron's "Aliens" it's not even funny. But I love it. I can't explain exactly why. It just WORKS for me. I liked the sets, I liked the cinematography, I liked how they borrowed from "Aliens". It's all a bit ironic that Cameron at one point was an understudy of Corman's, with films like "Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980).

I own the Carnosaur trilogy on DVD, and the most I can say for part one is that it has moments. The most I can say for the third is that it took me five years to find it watchable.

Now we have "Raptor," which does NOT continue that series. Instead, it borrows ENTIRE scenes from the Carnosaur Trilogy and BUILDS a movie around it. And somehow Roger Corman was able to get Eric Roberts and Corbin Bernsen to do it. Now, I'm not saying either Roberts or Bernsen are at any kind of career high. But they were both at one point what could be called RESPECTABLE actors. Not here. Sure, actors react to effects they won't even see while filming all the time. Here, however, they are reacting to mismatched footage from films that are between five and eight years old. There's even a sherrif whose costume was modeled directly after a character in "Carnosaur 1." Apparently it made too much sense to get the original guy back.

When "Raptor" was announced I was a wee bit excited. I was however disappointed when Corman said that they'd be using the old dinosaur models from "Carnosaur." Apparently Corman decided after this interview was conducted that he wouldn't even do that. And its not that he couldn't find an FX crew to do it. The script for this was clearly written keeping in mind that the story had to be built around pre-existing stock footage.

Don't compare this to Ed Wood. Ed did better than this. At least he only used the stock footage of Bela once, in one film. There are ways of incorporating stock footage into a movie, and "Raptor" takes this frowned-upon technique to a new low. Even if you liked "Carnosaur 3: Primal Species," stay away from "Raptor."

I must say that I did expect to see a movie that was a lot worse. It's a cheap exploitation-movie OK, but it could have been a lot worse. Ir read that they used footage from the three Carnosaur-movies, but they did that rather well. Eric Roberts plays his role as a sheriff in a way you would expect in this kind of film, but does a better job than most exploitation-actors. Lorissa McComas is great as the daughter. It would have been better if she'd died a horrific death, because I'm sure she would be great at it. Melissa Braselle was OK as well. The "bad guys", however, were pretty lame.It was a big mistake to let the "evil professor" wear such a silly hat. I mean, if you're going for stereotypes, don't be afraid to pick up the bald German professor again. When people are watching a cheapo flick, it doesn't matter... we *do* want to see what we expect to see. Originality is OK, but only in the butcheries ;-) No, seriously: I enjoyed Raptor. I didn't *love* it. I don't recommend it to people. I'm just glad it wasn't a lot worse.

This film was really terrible.

However , it's worth seeing , as it features the worlds most unnecessarily extended sex scene ever. I mean , this thing went on for about 7 - 8 minutes (repeating the same 'moves' over and over), thats almost 10 % of the whole film! I haven't laughed as hard as I laughed at that for a long time.

There were some seriously strange and pointless goings on in this film, but the one that I found funniest was when (for no reason whatsoever) a helicopter lands and 5 or 6 guys in orange suits run in to the complex near the end. 2 minutes later they run out again. What the hell was that for?? Also , the tiny white forklift that magically changed into a huge yellow digger was pretty classic. I'm led to beleive that this is because they used footage from the 'carnosaur' trilogy to patch up this absolute donkey. I'm gonna have to see those now!

The film is worth watching for a laugh or two , but if you dont find bad movies funny, stay away!

It is cheap. It is not great. The story has holes. But, it is not suppose to be great, or perfect. It is fun, and that's what matters.

Most of the IMDb users have rated this film as pretty bad junk. Out of 32 users who have posted comments most rated raptor pretty low. However i have a question. If it is so bad why so many opinions ? 32 opinions are a lot. Most movies that are bad (particularly recent ones like raptor) generally have very few people bothering to comment on them at all. So why so many comments for this film ? Because it was deliciously bad. This is the kind of film Tarantino probably has a poster of on his wall, next to 'ride the whirlwind' and 'the blair wench project'. Sure Raptor is an obvious rip off of the Carnosaur series and the poster of raptor looks suspiciously like the poster for jurassic park. The effects are terrible, the acting is only average, the screams are canned and the raptor itself looks like a two dollar finger puppet but hey I though this movie was entertaining in terms of the often misunderstood "its-so-bad-its-actually-good" category.

Don't take it too seriously and you can have a good laugh at how bad it all is and besides it will make you appreciate other great film-making.

7/10

So bad, it's entertaining, especially during cocktail hour, and believe me, you'll need a beer, a drink, or whatever to get through this turkey. Where do they get the financial backing for such paint-by-the-numbers "horror" flicks? The fun in this movie is predicting which characters will get eaten and in what order, and trashing the so-called "uniforms" the "military" jokers wear. The raptors, by the way, are not the same raptors we met in "Jurassic Park," but a cousin species. (Sorry, no spoilers here. You'll have to watch it to find out for yourself) Don't expect the plot to make sense, simple as it is, just go along for the ride. You could make it a game... take another drink each time you hear a certain sound... or better yet, every time someone gets crunched by a "raptor." With a little luck, you won't even remember having seen this "C-grade" made-for-TV movie!

Before I begin, let me just say the film is bad. There's no need in saying why. It's just bad. Bad writing, directing, special effects, acting, you name it. BUT the movie does have two things going for it: the briefly exposed breasts of the beautiful and surgically-enhanced Lorissa McComas, and the star power of one Eric Roberts. I mean it, how can you not enjoy an Eric Roberts movie? Yeah the movie may be crap on a stick, but Roberts hams scenes up to the point you just have to laugh. I rent every Eric Roberts movie that I can find. The guy is classic. Years from now people will remember Eric as the king of straight-to-video and it's a title he really deserves. Anybody who can act with a straight face in a movie that has a muppet for a raptor is a genius.

Some kind of vicious animal escapes a bio-research installation in remote SoCal and grisly corpses start mounting up. The Sheriff and an animal expert try to figure out what's going on (Eric Roberts and Melissa Brasselle), which leads them to the mysterious facility. Corbin Bernsen plays the proverbial mad doctor.

"Raptor" (2001) is a 'B' creature feature that mixes "Jurassic Park" (1993), "Godzilla" (1998), "Aliens" (1986) and "Tremors" (1990). It was originally intended to be a sequel to the "Carnosaur" trilogy from 1993-1996 and therefore uses stock footage from those flicks for the creature effects. The footage is effectively edited into the new storyline so you can't tell. You could view it as "Carnosaur 4."

Being produced by Roger Corman and directed by his prolific protégé Jim Wynorski, this is a capable 'B' flick with the cast obviously having a good time during shooting. The black ops sequences are surprisingly well done. It's energetic, just too routine and familiar.

You could say that Corman & sidekick Wynorski were acting as a cinematic Dr. Frankenstein & Igor-lifting pieces of other cinematic bodies and grafting them together with filmic connecting tissue. Even the quality score by James Horner was entirely lifted from prior works.

Lorissa McComas with her big hair plays the Sheriff's daughter and stands out on the female front, although she's unfortunately absent from the second half. Meanwhile statuesque redhead Teresa DePriest is sharp.

The film runs 1 hour, 21 minutes, and was shot at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, Agua Dulce, California.

GRADE: C+

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.

A gut-ripping baby T-Rex is on the loose in a small western town, prompting sheriff Eric Roberts and animal control agent Melissa Brasselle (who walks through her role in a very disinterest fashion) to get to the bottom of things. They discover that a mad scientist (Corbin Bernsen) is, unbeknownst to the government sponsorship, continuing on with a long-abandoned US research project called Operation Jurassic Storm (ha!) by creating an army of dinosaurs in a secluded underground lab facility. Before long, our heroes become trapped inside, the marines are called in, the power goes out and the dinos are set free to make a quick lunch of everyone they can get their claws and jaws on.

Despite an often infuriatingly inept script full of plot holes, character inconsistencies and loose ends, this direct-to-video copy of JURASSIC PARK and CARNOSAUR is fairly digestible trash, thanks to good production values, passable FX, the occasional laugh and plenty of brainless action.

Someone pointed out that an opening scene in this film was stolen from CARNOSAUR, but anyone used to watching Roger Corman productions knows he allows directors to liberally reuse clips from his early films to save both time and money.

Score: 3 out of 10

All the dinosaur footage is just recycled from the Carnosaur films with new boring talking bits in between. It's really awful and I'm even a fan of many Jim Wynorski's movies. I felt ripped off and disappointed after I rented this back in the day. I was pretty stupid haha but I did actually like the Carnosaur movies as bloody horror dinosaur films, which are very rare (and the practical FX were so much fun); however, Raptor is clearly just a quick cash grab. I wouldn't even consider it a real movie since again all the FX shots are taken from other films. The new footage is dull as can be and obviously shot in a few days. Avoid at all costs unless you're a masochist.

I bought a DVD collection (9 movies for 10 Euros) where this one was included. It turned out to be the "uncut version" whatever that means. Beside the low average quality and short scenes there was one thing that was really strange - the soft sex scene. It started with a close up of 2 bigger breasts. After around 2 minutes I had an expression on my face which fitted the term "boooooooooooooring!" quite perfectly. 7.5 minutes of not even bouncing concrete like tits (at this point the term breasts is a bad choice) is far beyond from entertainment.

The rest of the movie was more like "people aren't /that/ stupid, are they?"

Lucky me, the DVD was scratched and I got my money back.

Slightly above awful for two reasons. First, the frantic conclusion that looks like it was put through a blender. The dinosaurs change shape and size at will. People who appear to have come from a different film entirely (oh wait they did come from a different film entirely) appear and disappear. Extra points for the female scientist who manages to change from a dress to a pants suit while being devoured by a T Rex. I'm still trying to digest everything that just happened, and almost forgot the second reason this is the "cream of the crap". That would be that I have the shortened 81 minute DVD, thus mercifully avoiding the 7 minute gratuitous "looped" sex scene of the extended version. - MERK

Roger Corman has been doing these low budget sci-fi/horror movies since the mid 1950's and I recently seen Raptor, one of his latest for the first time and found it quite good, though not his best.

People are being killed and these killings baffle the local Sheriff as they are rather unusual in nature. It turns out that these killings are the work of Velocaraptors that have escaped from a lab where a dinosaur cloning project is taking place in secret. The Sheriff and his lover go to the lab and meet the man behind the project, Dr Hyde but he locks them in a room but help arrives when some soldiers plant a load of bombs around the complex, killing dinosaurs in the process but some of the soldiers get eaten as well. They rescue the Sheriff and his lover and after he fights the escaped T-Rex, which eats Dr Hyde, with a mini bulldozer and pushes it off a ledge, the whole complex blows up.

The ending of Raptor with the T-Rex and the mini bulldozer is very similar to that of Dinosaurus (1960), although a large bulldozer was used in that.

The only thing I didn't like about Raptor was the prolonged sex scene near the beginning, which lasts for over five minutes. This was totally unnecessary and has nothing to do the the main story whatsoever. I fast forwarded the tape after a minute of this rubbish.

The cast includes Eric Roberts as the Sheriff, Corbin Bernsen as Dr Hyde and Melissa Brasselle as the Sheriff's love interest.

I quite enjoyed watching Raptor, apart from that horrible sex scene.

Rating: 3 stars out of 5.