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      Carnosaur 3: Primal Species

      R 1996 1h 21m Sci-Fi List
      Reviews 26% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings When terrorists take over a military convoy, they believe that they have seized plutonium. However, they get an unpleasant surprise when they discover that the cargo is actually a number of fierce, genetically engineered dinosaurs. Soon elite soldiers, led by Col. Higgins (Scott Valentine), are dispatched to destroy the giant reptiles, but scientist Dr. Hodges (Janet Gunn) hopes that they can be captured alive. Given the dinosaurs' predatory skills, subduing them proves to be quite difficult. Read More Read Less

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      Stefan Birgir Stefans sbs.is The fact that it’s boring is the death knell for the film. The dinosaurs are still just guys in cheap rubber suits, but since nothing around that is entertaining it ain’t funny, it’s just sad. Rated: 1/5 Sep 14, 2023 Full Review Pete Vonder Haar Film Threat Because 2 Carnosaurs simply weren't enough Rated: 1/5 Oct 28, 2005 Full Review Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Bargain basement dinosaur droppings. Rated: 1/5 Apr 2, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Archie Y The occasional smirk-inducing one-liners and accidental moments of decent cinematography are the only things saving this film from being an insult to the medium entirely. The film looks terrible, trudges through a nonsensical plot with awful characters, and features some of the worst creature effects I've ever seen. Despite the crews' best efforts to conceal the dinosaurs in darkness, fog, and shaky cam there was no hiding from the reality that Primal Carnage is just plain terrible. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/09/24 Full Review Audience Member Some terrorists think they're stealing uranium. Nope, it's frozen dinosaurs. Some cops think they're going after drug dealers. Nope, they find dead terrorists and then get killed by two velociraptors and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. As for you, you're here for the third Carnosaur movie, one that stars Scott Valentine, who went from being Nick Moore on Family Ties — a character so popular that they tried to spin him off three times* — to My Demon Lover, Roger Corman's Black Scorpion movies and The Unborn 2. He's Colonel Rance Higgins, who must team with Dr. Hodges (Janet Gunn, Silk Stalkings) to escape the dinosaurs. Seeing as how this was once called Primal Species, it was not made to be a Carnosaur movie. But we all know how 90s direct to video sequels work. I also have been made aware that 2001's Raptor has footage from these films — and stars Eric Roberts — which means I will have to watch it, as does the 2006 movie The Eden Formula which also has the much better title Tyrannosaurus Wrecks. *Taking It Home was canceled when Valentine's co-star, Herschel Bernardi, died. Anther was a Friends style sitcom and the third was The Art of Being Nick, which did air unlike the other two pilots but was not picked up. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member redemption for the trilogy Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member this film is a shamless attempt to cash in on the lost world jurassic park hype of the time. it has little magic, cheap scares, d grade special effects, and little since of adventure. but it has something jurassic park lacks and thats the b movie charm the critically acclaimed special effects epics like jurassic park couldnt dream of catching. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/11/23 Full Review Audience Member the weakest entry in the trilogy but still a good time and worth a watch if u liked the first 2 the one thing that didnt make sense was how did the dinosaurs end up on the boat Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Brilliantly bad. A group of terrorists take out a convoy they think has uranium, but which really contains velociraptors. Exactly as bad as you'd expect. Steals radars from Alien, the riffs from Predator, and everything else from Jurassic Park. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis When terrorists take over a military convoy, they believe that they have seized plutonium. However, they get an unpleasant surprise when they discover that the cargo is actually a number of fierce, genetically engineered dinosaurs. Soon elite soldiers, led by Col. Higgins (Scott Valentine), are dispatched to destroy the giant reptiles, but scientist Dr. Hodges (Janet Gunn) hopes that they can be captured alive. Given the dinosaurs' predatory skills, subduing them proves to be quite difficult.
      Director
      Jonathan Winfrey
      Producer
      Roger Corman
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 21m
      Sound Mix
      Surround