Director: Brad Thomasson
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Dinosaurs
Plot:
After being released by a meteorite, a massive T-Rex is unleashed on a small town and begins devouring the local population forcing a government agent in the area on vacation to be forced into action to stop the creature before its rampage gets out of control.
Review:
This here was quite a cheesy genre effort. The main aspect of this one is the whole straightforward manner of generating the creature's attacks which follows a simplistic formula where it happens upon victims in a new locale. Appearing in random people's backyards, out in the middle of the woods, or in a public park, the setup here involves the appearance of loosely-connected skits of nameless victims going about their lives until they're confronted by the dinosaur keeps this one loose and quite breezy. The fast-paced feel of switching to new victims while the agent and her partner operate as a throughline while trying to track it down which makes for a constant influx of goofy encounters with some cheesy gore. These make for a fun enough time here.
That said, this one does have some issues which all stem from the budgetary limitations here. Not only is the titular creature laughably CGI-created and features all sorts of inconsistent work with it clearly not being in the actual environment as it floats on the screen, never reacts or engages with anything around it or even undergoing movement animations yet not doing anything to fix its movement among numerous other archetypical issues featured here. With just about the whole of the special effects here falling under these issues as well, it highlights the weak budget throughout here from the flimsy storyline, lack of explanation for anything happening, and the guerilla-style filming qualities that manage to be quite apparent and hold this one down.
Overview: **/5
A generally cheesy enough genre effort, this one ends up quite simple in turns of rather obvious qualities about it that make this a pretty cut-and-dried genre effort. Those who appreciate this kind of genre effort and are willing to go through the film with the flaws present will have a lot to like here while those who aren't fans of the style should ignore this one.
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