StunnaKrypto
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
SpunkySelfTwitter
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Wuchak
RELEASED TO TV IN 2010 and directed by Colin Ferguson, "Triassic Attack" takes place at an Oregon university town where the skeletal remains of a tyrannosaurus, a pteranodon & a velociraptor come to life due to the mojo of a Native American (Raoul Max Trujillo) frustrated about the University taking over Native lands. CAST: Steven Brand plays the sheriff, Kirsty Mitchell his ex-wife, Emilia Clarke their daughter, Gabriel Womack a helpful electrician who stinks and Christopher Villiers the venal president of the college. This is basically a TV-budgeted "Jurassic Park" with better characters (generally speaking), Native mojo and taking place on the mainland rather than a tropical island. Of course, it lacks the great Tyrannosaurus and velociraptors-in-the-kitchen sequences, but it's pretty entertaining for what it is. The movie starts out thoroughly serious, but eventually adds a little humor. The opening act features a great tantrum scene involving Raoul's character, Dakota. Speaking of Dakota, the story angle of his traditional beliefs/practices NOT saving someone in the past and how it ill-affects his relationship with someone else is insightful. It's interesting to see Emilia before she shot to fame with Game of Thrones and "Terminator: Genisys" (2015), not that I'm a fan, which isn't to say I DON'T like her. She's a'right. THE FILM RUNS about 87 minutes and was shot in Bulgaria. WRITERS: Russ Friedman & Tripp Reed.GRADE: B/B- (6.5/10)
Sandcooler
I rarely rip on the acting performances in creature features from the SyFy Channel, but Jesus H. Christ. Where the hell did they find all these people? A project like "Triassic Attack" isn't going to attract the cream of the crop, but this cast goes well below the minimum requirements. For one thing: nobody in this quiet, rural American town manages to hide their British accent. For another, the inevitable comic relief character has the comedic timing of an orphanage fire. The Native American character does seem to be pulled straight from an SNL sketch, but I think those scenes are supposed to be taken seriously. The effects are never that good in SyFy movies, but they are especially bad here. These dinosaur skeletons seemed very difficult to animate, they move in a really unnatural way. There are several scenes where we get dangerously close to "Birdemic" territory. Overall though, the most bothersome thing about this movie is that it just doesn't give the audience what it wants. All you want to see is dinosaurs eating people, and it barely has any of that. And on the rare occasions you do see it, it appears to be completely bloodless because adding CGI blood is more work. Not even good for a laugh.
Neil Welch
We have some unwanted property development impending near where we live. Sadly, we don't have any native American medicine men who can summon up - wait for it - magic dinosaur skeletons. Yes, that's what we have in this entry in SyFy's increasingly rubbish made for TV critter movies (increasingly? No, they've been rubbish all the time). The only reason to see a trite, hackneyed, predictable piece of tosh like this is the critters, and they are so lame that it negates the point of seeing the film in the first place. I have trouble seeing how a pterodactyl comprising only bones can fly. Ah, magic. Yes, of course.When I said "lame", I may have omitted to say that the dinosaur skeletons don't convince visually, particularly as they are startlingly badly composited into the background plates.Another SyFy channel winnah!
Joseph Palka
I was expecting a great Syfy movie; my family would sit down, watch it, enjoy it, and laugh at the guilty pleasure with it's clever effects throughout. However, this just made me feel like fast-forwarding the entire show with my DVR remote. Here's why:The story was just boring; it felt like that it could have sped up a little bit. At least they did a flashback to show how the events came about, but mostly, the writers used all these unnecessary pauses and dialog for filler that just made the movie seem longer. If they were to cut out those certain scenes or shorten them, the movie could have made a solid hour and I would have enjoyed it much better.The characters, mostly between the main characters--Jake and Emma--were just irritating and painstakingly annoying. As before, the writers just used filler techniques in situations with dialog or pauses. Surprisingly, the other characters that were further introduced were slightly better, but the pacing felt unbalanced. The acting was off- balance; some scenes looked like they were a complete joke--not funny, some were so overdone that they seemed to last too long.The effects were okay some of the time, but mostly, they were the cheapest graphics ever put into a Syfy movie--more cheap than the other movies. In fact, they were so cheap that it made the other effects from other Syfy movies, as well as low-rated universal productions, appear ten times as good.Lastly, the concepts of the movie: dull and unrealistic. In fact, one scene actually felt uncomfortable and very unusual and it lasted for about a minute. Another one was a ritual ceremony that caused it to magically rain from the sky. The fact that dinosaur skeletons are able to roar without the required organs, and fly without any muscles, is beyond ridiculous.As for consistency, Syfy premiered the movie Jurassic Park, a more successful spin-off of realistic dinosaurs, directed by Steven Spielberg, before this movie aired. I assume that it tried to keep us interested in dinosaurs, just without the whole body structure, but that plan failed miserably.Overall, this is one of the worst Syfy movies that was ever made in the history of this channel.
