TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Edwin
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Logan
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Mike Stone
I picked this movie up at a flea market for $1. Overpaid for it. I should have looked close and noticed it was made by the Sci Fi Channel. That's a definite tip that it stinks. The only reason I gave it two stars is because one of those stars is for Amy Sloan, the one and only high point in the movie. I don't demand that movies be totally realistic. I'm not one of those who got upset because the space ships in Star Wars go "Woosh" in a vacuum. Don't care. But bullet proof pterodactyls that tear people completely in half with one swoop? Are you serious? Add a bunch of soldiers who practice the discipline and tactical skills of cub scouts.
battyman1
"...So 'Bulldog' Heinlein got a _daughter_?!" (repeated in disbelief)Hard for me to believe, too. That's not that common a name. Later on, a chick named Zelazny comes to a dramatic end. Zero possibility of coincidence there. Admittedly, it was my third trip through this mess and I was pretty bored, but as I started catching names the alert rang in my head. Professor _Lovecraft_?OK, yeah, there they are, in the "Trivia": A 'who's who' of SciFi / Fantasy authors. At least I'm not the _only_ one who noticed that.It's really too bad that the screenplay writer can't write a gunfight as well as he drops names. From the reviews I'd say "Coolio" is much better known nowadays than those other guys. IMHO Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes & Gina Torres make far more convincing soldiers. I mean, that "Coolio" guy is _short_!At least "Kate Heinlein" was able to prove that the pterodactyls weren't _totally_ impervious to gunfire by taking out one (of the smaller ones) with a handgun. This is the only linkage I can find between any of the SciFi authors and their namesakes, as RAH's brief naval career was as a gunnery officer, calculating over-the-horizon trajectories for BIG (like 12-inch) guns mounted on ships. I give it two stars, but only because I just sat through three "Carnosaur" movies which were much worse. It doesn't rate any better due to the severe impotence of the firearms in every engagement. I don't care if they _are_ pterodactyls, NO creature can take whole magazines of .223 fire from multiple SpecForces soldiers (who, despite the prejudices of the movie-making industry, _can_ hit what they're shooting at) and just keep flying. Maybe a T.Rex might walk away, maybe, if the shooter was _really_ sloppy, but even he'd be - uh - "peeved" off, and bleeding, not simply _unaffected_. But that's a different movie...I personally wouldn't hesitate to take up an M-16 (full auto) and 2 magazines (60 rounds) against a T.Rex (or an elephant, or a lion) any day. If I couldn't take it out, I'd _deserve_ to die. Same thing for a pterodactyl. They're big, but they're still flesh and bone.Here's Cortez now ("Aztec Rex"). He and his men are going after a pair of T.Rexes - with flintlocks, crossbows, pointed sticks, and swords. That's a little more even. And it looks a LOT better than the ones in "Carnosaur", too. Oh, wait - they've got a cannon, about 4-inch. Nevermind the even match. But a ball from it just _bounced_ off? Here we go again!
Christopher McBreen
Sci-Fi channel original movies are the movies that used to be on Saturday matinées. B movies like Planet 9 from Outer Space, Mars Needs Women and Killer Klowns from Outer Space but this movie gives entertainingly bad moves a bad name.The Pterodactyl's themselves are ridiculous looking (which is strange because the technology from Jurassic Park 3 made some convincing looking pterodactyls a few years ago but I'm not going to nit pick). It was strange that if you hit one of them just right, it would explode in a mist of red goop (probably cherry jello).It has rapper, Coolio, calling anything and everything a __ __ son of a bitch. Stick to rapping dude.There are people being ripped in half (I don't think if a person were ripped in half it would look like the body is stuffed full of spaghetti).The plot says that this is taking place in a third world nation of eastern Europe, but the whole thing looks like it was shot on the fairway of a golf course in Hawaii, in fact when the story says they have been traveling from one clearing to another and they come out onto the same fairway shot from a different angle.With the exception of some of their series's, Sci-Fi original programming is without a doubt, some of the most entertainingly BAD movies I've ever seen.
danthewrestlingmanorigin
I've seen almost all of dtv creature features, so prevalent over the last seven years or so, and I can say honestly that this is one of the more enjoyable titles. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but if you dig these kinds of movies, it delivers the fun. First off I loved the action sequences of the military guys fighting against the Pteros' and getting picked off one by one from the sky. As cheesy as a lot of it is, I've never really been as riveted to be watching some of the chase scenes in a film like this, and the effects though maybe not realistic, were not annoying and not as fake looking as for example in Sabretooth. Heck even Coolio, was enjoyable in this. In closing it's not the terror masterpiece that Jaws is, but hey you probably weren't expecting it to be, so just get your popcorn ready, kick back, and enjoy the cheese.