Extinction

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!!

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!

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.

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.