Director: Victor De Almeida
Year: 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Dinosaurs
Plot:
Taking a special trip together, a group of friends on a plane ride over the Bermuda Triangle manage to crashland on a deserted island which they soon find is filled with dinosaurs and other strange prehistoric creatures forcing them to find a way to get off the island alive before succumbing to the creatures.
Review:
There was quite a lot to like with this one. Among the better features here is the solid and workably cheesy setup that provides this with a rather fun starting point for this kind of film. As the initial purpose of the trip being everyone to undertake a team-building exercise and getting stranded in the storm that forces them onto the strange island is a fine start that handles a couple of key elements. The trip there allows the intervening banter to get a handle on the group and who they are so that we’re a bit familiar with their past, the purposes for the trip, and their personalities so that the later scenes when they’re being chased have a bit of suspense to them. The subsequent scenes on the island following the crash make for a fun time as their attempt to deal with the chaos and confusion of the situation normally without having to deal with the creatures that slowly confirm their theory about the island being lost to time that serves everything rather nicely here.
That forms the basis for a slew of fun, cheesy creature confrontations within here. As the first encounter with the soldiers shows the creatures in full sight and gives an idea of the kind of cheesy effects and confrontations that take place here, which carries over into the rest of the encounters featured here. Starting with insectoid creatures and mutated spider-like beings, the stalking scenes become quite fun once the large dinosaurs become involved as the scenes with the raptor chasing one of the members through the forest, a great gun battle with one of the creatures that generates some solid cheesy gore scenes, and the rather silly finale that features some fun encounters with the creatures and some genuinely surprising outcomes for each of the remaining survivors that adds a different touch to this one, and when combined with the expectedly goofy effects come together for a lot to like here.
This one doesn’t have much but a few slight problems are holding it back. The main factor against this one is the rather confusing nature of what the renegade military team hopes to accomplish by adding them into the film as late as it does. They’re introduced excessively late into the running time and don’t have any purpose for their aggressive behavior since they’re not properly introduced as the cold open implies those team members are the last remaining survivors. That makes this team showing up at this point very confusing overall. On top of that, the usual amount of somewhat obvious and goofy CGI for the creatures and other general effects work featured throughout here as they come with the usual assortment of drawbacks including changing dimensions, unnatural sizes, or unnatural movements that continually give themselves away. These are all expected and shouldn’t hold this back but still slightly lower this one.
Overview: ***.5/5
A perfectly cheesy low-budget dinosaur effort, this one comes across exactly like you’d think it would and has plenty of the expected fun and issues the majority of these films typically carry. Those with an affinity for this type of genre effort or are fans of the creative crew will have the most to like here while most others who aren’t fans of the style or approach should heed caution.
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