A group of
technicians is sent to a top secret
mining facility to investigate a
mysterious power shortage led by a greedy
man named Maj. Tom McQuade (Cliff De
Young).
The place is deserted with alot of
damaged rooms. They find a kid named
Jesse Turner (Ryan Thomas Johnson) who is
shocked by what had happened there as one
of the people named Jack Reed (John
Savage) tries to help him out.
Everyone tries to search out the
cavernous tunnels and discovers a bunch
of prehistoric beasts that feasts on each
of them. They try to escape but one of
these carnosaurs hid out in the
helicopter which was their only escape
and feasted on the pilot named Joanne
Galloway (Neith Hunter) and their
helicoter crashes and explodes.
McQuade tells them what is going on about
these carnosaurs but for some reason he
seems to want to keep some of them alive
and will do anything to do so even if it
means killing some of his men before they
kill these monsters and bringing them
back to their base before the mine
explodes in a nuclear meltdown.
Normally sequels
aren't better than the originals I find
but I enjoyed this one by far as it seems
like a completely different story
alltogether and I think it is.
The film was cheesy but it's so bad it's
good. It really cloned Aliens
but it was taking place present day on
Earth with scene's very obvious to what I
mentioned like having a kid playing an
older type of male Newt along with a male
Ripley acting fatherly and caring to him.
Plus we have a battle with a giant
carnosaur close to the ending of the film
too.
There were good effects on the
carnosaur's as well as lots of
adventureous explorings at the laboratory
and the canrosaurs attacking the people
one by one.
Check this one out if you enjoyed cheesy
direct to video films during this time
period in which you won't be
disappointed.
The acting is
quite good since we have a well known
talented cast performing in this flick. John
Savage was by far the most memorable
one of them all showing a tough but nice
and caring side to him along with great
violent aggressions when he had to do a
battle. Yup one the best I found.
Cliff DeYoung really knew his part
giving orders to others along with acting
like a scumbag too proving to be a good
backstabber in the film with his greedy
actions too. He also does well panicking
for the supenseful moments.
Don Stroud was my favourite actor
for this film showing a nice sarcastic
attitude as well as showing a great charm
to his character with the right looks
too. He shows nice versatality to what he
had to do.
Ryan Thomas Johnson who played the
kid in the film however tries way too
hard and he didn't pull it off all that
greatly. He wasn't terrible but needed
some improvement and can do so with
future acting gigs in which he can study
his craft well.
Miguel A. Nunez didn't have a huge
part in the film but showed a great
bubbly and outgoing attitude in which I
have often seen him do in flicks like in Return
of the Living Dead. He also
showed great aparnoid expressions too. He
certainly was quite a character as always
in shows.
There's many
bloody scratch marks
An arm is chomped off along with other
body parts
A head is chomped off along with the arms
and legs too
Louis Morneau seems to
direct this piece not too bad. Sure it
looks cheesy at times but it's fun to
watch all the way through.
He shows a good outdoor scene with bit
part actor John Davis Chandler acting
nervous calling to the carnosaur and then
later on a shot zooming in on him with
him trembling. Then there's great shots
on the factory with things being thrown
around and some hellraising moments too.
There's a good moment with Cliff
DeYoung instructing other before
going on their mission in which it looked
serious and well done.
There's good shots on the main cast in
the helicopter goofing around and having
discussions.
There's a cheesily directed moment with
the cast discovering Ryan Thomas
Johnson acting in shock and taking
him to a place to lie down and trying to
talk to him. I didn't find it at all too
believeable.
We spot many good dialogues with John
Savage acting sympathetic towards
Johnson giving it a nice
heartwarming feel to the story and one of
the best directions too.
There's a good shot on a carnosaur
looking down on Miguel A. Nunez Jr.
with him looking up and looking nervous.
Plus we have a shot shot on him being
thrown by this ferocious beast.
We have a good shot on supporting actress
Neith Hunter getting ready to
start up the helicopter with a carnosaur
behind her and then a shot on her
struggling and being eaten by this beast.
We spot a shot on the helicopter crashing
on the ground but you can tell it's a
model. However, there's a nice effects
shot on an explosion.
There's a good moment with DeYoung
explaining what's happening and
discussing about a prehistoric life
breeding in the labratory and Don
Stroud acting saracastic about it
all which looked quite natural.
There's many good shots on the cast like
Stroud, De Young and Savage
trying to explore the hallways of the
labratory for any carnosaurs.
We spot a good brawling and struggling
moment between De Young and Savage
with great intense actions on the two of
them along with good camera shots on the
surroundings.
There's a good shot on the cast in a room
and then a carnosaur crashing through the
roof and grabbing Arabella Holzbog
as well as a shot on the carnosaur
attacking her with great struggling
reactions on Holzbog.
We spot many shots on carnosaur's
attacking with their jaw open ready to
take a bite as well as trying to break
through things in the hallways.
There's a good shot on the cast in the
head labratory room with smoke shooting
down and their reactions on what to do.
We spot a good shot on Savage
falling but Johnson isn't
convincing with his devastating screams
but that's mainly his acting skills in
which you can tell that Morneau tried
his best with him.
There's a good moment with Johnson
trying to help Savage up and he
does well hollering in pain.
We spot a good shot on a giant carnosaur
stomping towards Johnson and then later
on a good shot on the carnosaur picking
up a corpse of what was a federal agent.
Neat effects there and great camera work.
There's many perfect takes on Johnson
driving a crater and battling this giant
beast. I found this to be the most
adventureous directing of them all.
We hear some high pitched
and the odd screechy music composed by Ed
Tomney with some low sounds too for
the real creepiness to the story. Alot of
this sounds almost similar to the Puppet
Master flicks.
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