100 Million BC (2008)

A Masterpiece!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This film puts all of todays modern CGI to shame, Man of Steel eat your heart out! The detail makes you feel as though the play dough looking dinosaurs are really in your room.But its not just the visual aspects of this film which make it so great it has a flowing plot line which would embarrass most comedy sketch shows, one of the most complex and meaningful stories I've come across.It doesn't end there though what really makes this film is the early 20th century robots they employed to act in this film (however they were slightly let down by their 20:20 vision when trying to read off the autocue behind the camera, even I admit there were some momentary glitches!!)This is must for all those film fans who appreciate films such as apocalypse now, the godfather trilogy or shawshanks IT IS ON PAR WITH THOSE!!!

This movie is a total mess. I thought this movie was made in 1988, not 2008, based on nearly cardboard cutouts of dinosaurs. Dialog was mostly implied throughout the movie. Total disconnect with reality. It appears that the directors not only had a super limited budget but also limited imagination and no research what so ever. Yet I found myself glued to the TV for almost the whole movie. The more I watched the crappier it got. It was almost like watching teletubbies or Barny the dinosaur. SPOILER: Surprisingly, this highly advanced facility is run by a bald, fat technician (starting the portal) and a lone officer who looks like a total redneck. Also, the genius doctor tells his friend that his son almost killed someone in a bar. The son must be at least 60 years old, since his dad left in 1949. . Also, the grandfather paradox (mentioned in the movie) tends to be amplified in time. So it was an absolute blunder to send the team to the dinosaurs.The cave messages (in English), the T-Rex scull and the UFO caricature would have huge effect on media and science.Bottom line: Don't watch unless you are addicted to crack. One star for the concept

Terribly flawed plot line accompanied by horrendous CGI. I've seen better special effects in movies from the 80's. I recorded this movie for my 7 year old son because he loves dinosaurs and even he noticed loads of mistakes! We actually watched it right through to the end, we wanted to see how bad the ending was going to be!! True to form, the ending was as unbelievable as the rest of the movie. Because this movie was on TV I didn't see the DVD cover & man am I glad, I would have been a hell of a lot more disappointed than I already am, the cover is very very misleading. I wish I had read all the reviews on this site before attempting to waste my time on this awful awful movie!!!!

But in all honesty, is it really saying that much? I watched this out of curiosity as I make it a habit of watching these Syfy movies(most of which are really bad) when there is nothing else on. I have seen worse movies than 100 Million BC and there have been worse from SyFy, however this aside that doesn't stop it from being terrible. The production values are cheap and shot so darkly sometimes you can hardly make out what was going on and the effects look phony and the sound is both murky and lacking in authenticity. The music is canned, which can mean tacky and annoying, the case here, the story is badly paced often being dull and there are no thrills, suspense or tense build ups to savour and the dialogue is toe-curlingly bad. The acting not helped by some stock and clichéd characters is awful, Michael Gross tries but Chris Atkins is wooden and painful to watch. All in all, I've seen worse, but this was not a good movie at all. 2/10 Bethany Cox