Solidrariol
Am I Missing Something?
Mehdi Hoffman
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Brenda
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
carlesmiquel
Sadly, this film pushes the envelope to places you don't want to be, namely, where suspense of belief is not enough. You have to be totally into buying a bit of thrill where you're own stupidity must play a significant role. No sound in the chopper (not even Air Force Two is that silent), no natural reactions of people when they should be... incredibly predictable everything. But, alas! in the end, the product is fun to watch if you can bear with the first 20 minutes or more. That's the part which I can't understand today: 1) you're committed to watch it, 2) you're stupid and 3) you're committed to watch it. So... don't feel committed as I did. Just watch the first 20 minutes and you'll see for yourself. It's not fair to write so badly when you're trying to catch the imagination of your audience. But they did it in a very lame way. I don't know if they caught anybody's imagination at all. The other thing that doesn't help is the hand-held shooting of the film. Real life amateurs with GoPros or iPhones don't have such a messy job, Documentarists never shake so badly with a heavy camera, and NEVER throw the zoom into the 100's like crazy. Not even kids do it that way today. They know better.If they wrote a better opening, if the acting wasn't so cheesy and if the cameras (not the sound ???) were not handled by monkeys, this could be a fun film to watch.
Northtribe3
The film is about a group of British people that decide to go to the Congo jungle to get proof of that dinosaurs really exists but when they crash with their plane the major problems starts to escalate. The characters are so predictable and you realize very early in the film that it is so clearly that they wanted to capitalize on Jurassic Park, now by any means that's not a bad idea because they just wanted to make it more like a found footage type of movie with dinosaurs and the idea itself isn't too bad but the way it's executed just makes the movie fall flat. Some of the main problems with it is that: 1. the acting is terrible 2. the cgi was laughably bad at parts 3. the characters were all very predictableFor example you can clearly see or notice in the movie very early on that they did not care for the acting, it feels like they thought like this: "Just as long as the character Jonathan Marchant looks like Alan Grant it will be alright". Now this made me laugh so hard because he really looked like Sam Neill but his acting was very bad. Another problem with it is that it feels like the filmmakers sometimes didn't know what type of movie they wanted to make and unfortunately for them the movie turned out to be a complete mess. One example of this is when they've been sort of stranded and just got to shore and the son of the Jonathan Marchant character from no where comes up to him and asks him a bunch of questions from his point of view (found footage style). At this part I yelled out "Interview Time!" because that scene came out of no where. So finally am I able to recommend The Dinosaur Project? Well my answer is NO. If you're still interested in checking it out I recommend you to watch it with a couple of friends so you all can have a laugh at it. Then it might at least get a little more entertaining. My rating: 4/10 Stars
TheLittleSongbird
There are better dinosaur movies out there than The Dinosaur Project(naming them though will be unfair) but there are definitely far worse like almost every dino movie released by SyFy or The Asylum. The Dinosaur Project is far from perfect or great, but it was entertaining and did have some things it did well. Is it better than the IMDb and what has been said about it? I think so. Some of the camera work did have a dizzying effect with some shakiness that at times didn't add anything. The acting is a case of it being acceptable in parts, Richard Dillane is very good actually and while underused so is Natasha Loring, most of the time actually it was the case, but being rather cheesy in other parts especially the last act. Matt Kane does look wooden and Peter Brooke wildly overplays. The villain was not written at all well, there was no real point to him(the dinosaurs were conflict enough) and some of his scenes belonged somewhere else altogether, while the last act got far too silly and stretched credibility to the limit. However, the scenery is beautiful and made good use of and the dinosaur effects are surprisingly good. The dinosaurs themselves are very believable and creepy and have more colourful personalities than the human characters, agreed about that lovely moment with the baby Ceratosaurussen. Wish we could have seen more of them. Some camera work is inventive, the music is jaunty and the movie does have a snappy script that doesn't pad things out too much and has some light-hearted humour that sounds easy rather than awkward. The story goes at breakneck speed and is mostly enjoyably fun with the attacks having some genuine tension. On the whole, a fun film that could have been executed better but is nowhere near as bad as some have cited to be. 6/10 Bethany Cox
ironman2561
I won't spoil anything about this but this was the most disgraceful god awful dinosaur movie ever even written or filmed my recommendation you want a good dinosaur movie I would recommend the documentary dealing with Pannagonia I believe the area is called because that one is a fantastic film and if you want a good science fiction thriller Journey to the Center of the Earth.There isn't a lot to say other than a lot of the camera angles and shots sucked and were frustrating to follow, I truly didn't need a family history, and their were multiple errors and problems with the dinosaurs. Again I will end that if you really truthfully love dinosaurs PLEASE DO NOT waste your time watching this film.
