Raptor (2001)

Pretty Good

Let's be realistic.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The biggest and most disconcerting things of the Raptor movie was ending for the Tyransaurus is identical to Carnosaur except kid in the loader was a bit better acted and action then the adult. The similarities to the Carnosaur movies was rather poor choice in plot line. The only thing that approached good was the beginning with the kids in the jeep. Then the plot went down hill from there. Would have been nice if a different plot had been devised, rather then cloning the earlier movies. The raptor movie should have taken lesson from Jurasic park series in various plots. The only movie that has come close to a good dinosaur movie most recently is Aztec Rex. The repeated scenes as if taken from the Carnosaur movies leaves a person thinking of those movies.

The defining scene to this movie is when the fat guy quits, but the evil doctor just gives him one more duty, check on the dinosaurs. Keep in mind that he no longer has this job and so is absolutely not getting paid for this. Also keep in mind it's a goddamn dinosaur and the doctor he's supposed to trust is evil and doesn't like him. But he's still like, yeah okay. That just defined the stupidity in this movie. One Melissa Brasselle proves that seriously anyone can bolt on some breasts and be in movies. I can go ride a mountain-bike between them, but hey aside from that the people of Paraguay are very nice. Eric Roberts gives his absolute worst performance so far, there's no adjective to describe how bored he is throughout. Corbin Bernsen saves what there is to save and you start rooting for him, but they have to stick to the formula of course. And I wonder how much your life sucks when you play like, one of the army guys in this one? How low can your acting career go? The special effects are so embarrassingly bad you expect a sign saying "Studio 3" to get into the frame. It's not even honest pulp, it's all taken from "Carnosaur", which even sucked all by itself. And then I wonder why just anyone is allowed to make a movie.

OK, lets get one thing straight, i love dinosaur movies, even the bad ones. So with this in mind lets proceed. "Raptor" is a truly awful film, in fact its not even a film in its own right as it is cobbled together from bits of "Carnosaur", "Carnosaur 2" & "Primal Species - Carnosaur 3". There is some new footage with Eric Roberts as a sheriff and his busty sidekick running around looking confused, frightened or whatever it is there trying to convey (badly) on the emotional scale but then how can they react to something that was filmed several years earlier. The producers (yes Roger Corman i'm talking about you!) even went to the lengths of hiring 2 people from "Carnosaur" to play bit parts so there grisly death scenes can be reused! So this film is the cheapest of the cheap. Watch the 3 original movies, there no Oscar winners but they have some meritt and entertainment value but avoid "Raptor". Oh, it also has the most pointless sex scene that runs for nearly 10 minutes! Do you think they were trying to pad out the running time?

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.