100 Million B.C. - 2008

Such low quality, even less than I expected. I mean, knowing it’s not a blockbuster movie, I guessed it didn’t have a big badget, but even so this was real rubbish. It would have been better if they had built a fake dinosaur, a toy, and moved it across a miniaturized city. The special effects were awful, the actors didn’t react well to them, and the story was stupid and nonsense, the characters’ stories were barely touched and the time-travel-plot was nonsense, plus there was no suspense at all. Not even that. Shall we talk about the title, since we’re at it? Why is it “100 million B.C.” when they only go 60 million years in the past? Even the title is nonsense.

The story is: when he was young, a man developed a way to travel in time and a team was sent millions of years in the past to test it, but something went wrong and they were unable to come back. Now he’s found a way, so he goes with a new team to find them. He gets there six years after they arrived, and only four-five people out of 21 are still alive. He sends them back to our time but stays behind to close the portal. A big, red, dangerous dinosaur makes it in time and arrives here, and breaks loose in the city. How silly is that people tried to find it using warmth-detectors? Not just because the dinosaur is a cold blood animal, but because if there is a big tall dinosaur loose in New York City it’s really so difficult to find it just by looking? It’s not like it can hide, or even try it. Anyway, it’s led to an isolated place when the young scientist comes to help. He was old before, now other time travels are involved and a young one comes, because this way they can have their full happy ending giving him a girlfriend to kiss. Anyway, he takes a couple of them back to his time, while two others stay in this time. The end. Very bad. The dinosaur was not scary at all, and there was no suspense, whoever was close was eaten in a second, there was practically no fight at all; bullets were fired of course, just to make some noise, and didn’t make it any better at all, on the contrary.

In Italy it’s : La guerra dei dinosauri