If you thought CARNOSAUR was a cheesy and cheap B-movie then wait until you get a load of PRIMAL SPECIES, the third in a series that started off with a bad film and got progressively worse from there! Taking place in just two locations (a warehouse and a ship – but don't worry, the two are interchangeable, just supplying a clichéd 'industrial look' background for the action), PRIMAL SPECIES is dull, derivative, worthless and dumb – and those are the good points. This time around, the inspiration is clearly ALIENS, as a bunch of uninteresting soldiers run around shooting at dinosaurs and finding lots of eggs in the process. The script is cheesy and stupid beyond belief, even rehashing the "carved up like a turkey" joke from the first movie! All the characters are mundane and boring, from the female recruit (Vasquez from ALIENS anyone?) to the unintelligible comic relief and the stolid commander. Even the supposedly sexy female scientist is a bore, never cracking a smile or proving her acting worth at any moment.
This is a film that utilises lots of smoke-and-mirrors style effects to hide the paucity of the budget. The dinosaurs, when they're see, are a rubbery travesty, worse than any similar effects you'll see in a 1950s monster movie. Most hilarious of all is the T-Rex, a life-size model that can't actually move. The bit where the T-Rex explodes has to be the funniest part of a film otherwise devoid of unintentional humour. Whilst CARNOSAUR offered a ton of gore effects to enliven the proceedings, PRIMAL SPECIES has one bloody moment in which a load of severed body parts are found on a warehouse floor. Otherwise, heads and arms are gooily removed, usually in shadowy areas so you can't see what's going on very well. It's not enough to save the movie. Give this farce a miss!
This is a film that utilises lots of smoke-and-mirrors style effects to hide the paucity of the budget. The dinosaurs, when they're see, are a rubbery travesty, worse than any similar effects you'll see in a 1950s monster movie. Most hilarious of all is the T-Rex, a life-size model that can't actually move. The bit where the T-Rex explodes has to be the funniest part of a film otherwise devoid of unintentional humour. Whilst CARNOSAUR offered a ton of gore effects to enliven the proceedings, PRIMAL SPECIES has one bloody moment in which a load of severed body parts are found on a warehouse floor. Otherwise, heads and arms are gooily removed, usually in shadowy areas so you can't see what's going on very well. It's not enough to save the movie. Give this farce a miss!