Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

ebiros2 Imagine that you were a gold prospector, and found a mother lode. You take it home and clean all the debris off of the ore. Then some military men shows up and takes all you've collected Wouldn't you consider that a theft ? Yet that is exactly what happened to Sue - One of the most complete T- Rex specimen ever found. FBI and the national guard showed up at Blackhills Institute to haul away the fossils of the T-Rex. Something good was found, and US government decided to make it their own - by any means possible, and by force. The action speaks volumes about what kind of government United States is running. In some parts of this world United States is considered a terrorist. In this case a thug as well.Dinosaur 13 is a story that goes beyond the story of T-Rex fossil.It's a story about how US government operates. It's policy of might makes right is a danger not only to the fossil hunters, but to all citizens who lives in United States ( and rest of the world ).

olasnah-97-475221 This film isn't really so much a documentary about the 13th Trex skeleton found, but rather, the intense legal battles and drama over this find. Basically put, their Trex discovery is so important/valuable that the land owner they initially buy the fossil from after digging it up decides to reneg on his arrangement, then the govt steps in, and then half the planet becomes involved in trying to settle the claims over the fossil. 3/4 of the film focuses on the dizzyingly boring legalities of this struggle, which could have been concluded in a single sentence. Only the very beginning of this documentary focuses on the finding of the fossil itself. This could have been a very interesting introduction to paleontology and dinosaurs, and I was expecting this very thing, but instead just gets lost in uninteresting and complicated legal drama. Who cares?

jimlacy2003 This is a very interesting documentary film that also is a bit of a social/political commentary as well. I was glued to the movie for it's entirely; educational and fascinating at the same time. If there really is a "spoiler" in my review it would start here:It really wasn't too surprising to see the Fed government was the real "antagonist" of this story.Back in the mid 90's the internet was just gaining traction so you didn't hear a lot of what was really going on like you do now. And like more people I was still under the umbrella of the gov and it's controlled media propaganda machine.Now of days the stories of this kind of government bungling and corruption are all too common. And finally people can really see what is going on and the problem of big government. At least those that chose the "red pill" (the painful truth). There are still some 70% of America that are blissfully fine (taking the "blue pill") in the make believe world that the gov spins.It would be interesting to know how much our government probably spent (your money!) on all this. From sending all of their lackey investigators out, to mobilizing the National Guard, the trial, the whole thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it exceeded the Dinosaur's monetary worth.Furthermore you see the government's entitled mentality, and how they seem them self ABOVE the people. After all how is this the "governments" land when it's supposed to be the "people's". The "people" are not even part of the equation.And you don't know, with there being a good possibility the land owner was a friend (I.E. big campaign contributor) of a politician that might have started the whole thing to begin with. To me this is the most important lesson learned. You're government in their schemes and scams, bungling, backroom deals, and so on are not only wasting your tax money, they are actually using it against you!This is a great documentary that everyone should see.

Alha pro The documentary starts with a nice way of directing,and it shows us the main palaeontologists how they are working how they spend there time reading books and then shows us Susan Hendrickson one of the palaeontologist from them, takes a walk, an she suddenly saw something,like a stone but she thinks that it is a T-Rex's bone it was like a t-Rex spine, and then she look again closer and closer and she was sure after a wile that she discover a Tyrannosaurus Rex , she was so happy and she run to tell it to the others but after she arrived they didn't believe her, then she show them the part of t-Rex spine and they run fast to the dinosaur,and after a while they discover that it was sure a t-Rex,then they name the dinosaur Shu in memory of Susan Hendrickson. The documentary is nice until something went wrong the documentary became like a drama movie, there is nothing to understand or to show to us about palaeontologists and there work it changes the documentary and transform it to a movie, It suppose to show us about the dinosaurs.This story its nice but the documentary is going a little bit wrong.