Hundreds of dinosaurs created by a biotech firm escape into Los Angeles, and wreak havoc on the city. Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs. This was bad on a Jurassic scale. Given it is a movie from The Asylum, then at least we as the audience have an ounce of hope that this might just be one of those movies that stand out from the rest of the movies that they spew out. But no. I must say that given the cover/poster for the movie, I had my hopes up just a little bit, but when I saw THE ASYLUM on the screen as the movie started, all hopes evaporated like dew before the rising sun.<br/><br/>The idea was pretty much everything that was used in the "Jurassic Park" movies; dinosaurs have been brought back to life by the hands of humans with the help of technology and research. And of course, these dinosaurs break free of their captivity and wreck havoc on a major city - in this case Los Angeles.<br/><br/>Right, almost textbook page by page copy from "Jurassic Park", well, and then exposed to The Asylum. What could possibly go wrong?<br/><br/>I will say that the dinosaurs as CGI animated creatures were actually quite alright. However, when they brought in the prosthetics and puppets it just went from alright to oh-so-wrong. These non-CGI animated dinosaurs were such an eyesore that it was downright embarrassing to watch. Especially the scene with the pteranodon in the helicopter. Look at the beak when it is CGI animated and then look at the difference in texture and color even when it is a real prosthetic used. It was just so bad.<br/><br/>Story-wise, then "Age of Dinosaurs" was nowhere near as interesting as "Jurassic Park", and chances are that if you have seen any of the "Jurassic Park" movies and enjoyed them, then you don't really want to spend 88 minutes on this movie. The story was as plain, predictable and textbook material as they come.<br/><br/>And what about the title itself, "Age of Dinosaurs"? Wouldn't that actually indicate a period of time spanding more than a single day? Well, I guess the title was just about as good as the actual movie was.<br/><br/>Regarding the acting in the movie, well, nothing overly interesting here. You have TV pseudo-legend Treat Williams, but he is barely making it watchable. And then there was Ronny Cox, which was actually nice to see, though this is not one of his best movies, not by a long shot. AGE OF DINOSAURS is undoubtedly the cheesiest Asylum film I've yet watched, and there are plenty of contenders for that category. This is a shameless rip-off of JURASSIC PARK with almost exactly the same set-up and execution, right down to the Veliciraptor-emulating dinosaurs stalking a girl through a stainless steel kitchen. The last twenty minutes take the action on to the streets and rip off THE LOST WORLD in turn, and it's all ridiculously and gloriously stupid.<br/><br/>This film cries out to be treated as an unintentional comedy in much the same way as the SHARKNADO films. The whole thing is ridiculously bad, from the cheesy acting to the cheesy direction and even cheesier dinosaurs. CGI effects are used copiously as expected, and they're all rubbish. The most surprising thing about this production is the two old-timers they roped in to appearing. First up is a grey haired Treat Williams, still playing the action hero in his advancing years; second is Ronny Cox in another typecast villain turn (after ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL), looking so aged as to be almost unrecognisable.
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