Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

kolorfast This movie is an abortive, stillborn attempt to stitch together several bad movies and make some sort of extra-bad movie. It fails at even this, since there's way too much "plot", and not nearly enough goofy puppets and ridiculous gore. Seriously, the puppets are sweet, and the guys in suits crack me up pretty good. The performances are C-grade at best and lame throughout, with special props to the Spec-Ops guy who spoke some sort of bizarre East Coast/Venusian dialect that was almost impossible to decipher. Not that you really care what he says, as only the curse words are distinct. Cinematographically, it's non-offensive, pretty much what you'd expect from low-rent straight-to-video offal (just like the script). The fact that New Concorde used footage from the "Carnosaur" films IS offensive, and quite confusing. For shame, New Concorde. For shame. "Carnosaur" is one of my favorite terrible movies, and they somehow screwed it up and made it nigh unwatchable. See the "Carnosaur" films if you want to see shoestring dinosaur mayhem.I give it one star because I am so fond of the movies it steals from, and also because the scale doesn't have a zero.

Sandcooler 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.

Paul Andrews Raptor starts with three teenagers speeding around the desert in a jeep, they stop so one of them can take a pee which turns out to be a bad idea as a genetically created & enhanced Raptor attacks, kills & eats them. Sheriff Jim Tanner (Eric Roberts) & Deputy Ben Glover (Harrison Paige) are on the case, first impressions suggest an animal attack so they call in animal control officer Barbara Phillips (Melissa Brasselle) to try & figure out what was responsible. Evil, misguided & sinister genetic scientist Dr. Hyde (Corbin Bernsen) is informed that one of his Raptors had gotten loose & realises that it killed the teenagers, he decides to shut up shop & go elsewhere so he comes up with a plan for transporting Raptor eggs in chicken trucks, unfortunately one hatches, gets loose & attacks Sheriff's Tanners daughter Lola (Lorissa McComas) at which point it becomes 'personal' for Sheriff Tanner. Tanners investigations lead him to Dr. Hyde, his laboratory & an old military project called 'Jurassic Storm' designed to create dinosaur soldiers, or something like that. The military themselves are worried about bad publicity & so decide to shut the operation down themselves, but will they be in time to stop the dinosaurs escaping, breeding & using us as a source of food...Co-written & directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym Jay Andrews, he also has a small cameo in it, I actually thought Raptor was a lot of fun, it's an awful film to be sure but a highly entertaining one all the same. The first thing anyone unfamiliar with Raptor need to know is that it is pasted together from five other films, Humaniods from the Deep (1980), The Nest (1988), Carnosaur (1993), Carnosaur 2 (1995) & Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996), while I have not seen all of these films it's obvious that huge chunks of footage was used in Raptor from each. It might be as much as a 50/50 split between new & old footage. Oh, & the music was taken from Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Anyway, the script by Wynorski, Frances Doel & Michael B. Druxman moves along like a rocket & it's far from boring or uneventful although it has more inconsistencies & plot holes than a sieve. There is a sex scene near the start which lasts for about 5 minutes, there's no reason for it other than to show a pair of breasts belonging to a real babe which is more than fine with me, I mean that's the sort of mentality I have & the sort of level I'm at in regard to films. It has loads of gory dinosaur attacks, babes, big guns, explosions, one-liners & enough action to satisfy my lofty standards! The character's are dumb, the story is dumb & makes little sense, the dialogue is unintentionally funny, it's clichéd & it's just downright stupid but I really liked it & was throughly entertained, what that says about me I don't know & I'm not sure I want to know either! The film has an Aliens (1986) crossed with Jurassic Park (1992) vibe to it, from the military running around trying to kill nasty monsters with big guns to the climatic fight between the hero in a mechanical vehicle & the main big monster along with all sorts of misguided genetic experiments that end in tears.Director Wynorski couldn't make a competent film even if he tried, the amount of continuity mistakes in Raptor has to be seen to be believed. The most obvious ones being actors changing from shot to shot, clothes, props & the end where Sheriff Tanner fights the huge T-Rex with a digger which completely changes between shots to scenes where the background changes, for instance at the start the jeep stops next to a cliff yet when Sheriff Tanner gets there it's stuck in the middle of the desert. There's some good gore here, dinosaurs eating peoples intestines, severed hands, loads of blood spurting all over the place people getting torn to pieces, in short I was impressed.Technically the film is atrocious & has the worst continuity in a film ever, the footage taken from the other films is really poorly matched but I found that gave it a slightly comic somewhat funny feel to it which I dug. The special effects all of which were apparently taken from the Carnosaur series of films vary but most are very poor. The acting was strictly tongue in cheek & I'd imagine everyone knew what they were getting themselves into, hey we all have to pay the rent right? I thought McComas who played Lola was a real babe & had a great pair of breasts. Hey, these things are important & worth mentioning OK?I have no idea why but I really liked Raptor, it's total crap for sure but I just found it so watchable & entertaining which is just about the biggest compliment I can give to it. It doesn't make any real sense but sometimes you just have to go with it & forget about inconsequential things such as a story... Produced by Roger Corman, is there nothing this man won't put his name to?

dairmuid I thoroughly agree that this movie was so bad that it was good. I laughed my butt off the entire time. From the (questionably) sexy Melissa Braselle as an animal control officer, who can't raise her arms above her head for the seeming fear that her fake boobs will pop out, to the sinister Corbin Bernsen as Dr. Hyde ... complete with beret, this movie had me rolling.I think my favorite piece of bad movie making was the splash of blood on the wall when a tyrannosaurus (raptor? what kind of dinosaur was it again?) attacks a marine. You can literally see the blood squirting out of a hose or bottle before it splashes on the wall. Hilarious.I recommend this movie to anyone who is not prepared to take it seriously. Have a few drinks and settle down for a crap-o-rama. It's definitely worth it.