Tubi Thursday: The Jurassic Dead (2017)

 At this point, they might as well have Dinosaurs on that AMC Show.  It couldn't hurt, right?

Of course, this is actually an ultra-low-budget Film from the Director of Tsunambee.  Oh joy.

A Cold Open features a guy trying to kill a Scientist to steal his 'bring things back to life' formula.  He escapes the human-sized Dinosaur puppet.

Next we see him as a College Professor that uses his formula to revive a dead cat (off-camera).

He's fired by his Boss (at Green Screen University, it seems) and kidnapped by...someone.

In classic Tell, Don't Show style, we are TOLD by a sudden, one-time Narrator about how 5 Commandos were sent (by someone we don't see) to capture the same Scientist, who took over the Base (off-camera).  He also says that 2 survived, so self-SPOILERS.

Said Commandos drive by an annoy a quartet of clichés (Jock, Stoner, Tech Girl and Dumb Girl).

All of them end up in the Base.

The group are told via Star Wars Prequel-style hologram by the Scientist (who now is a mix of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine).

He's going to unleash his Zombie Gas all over the World (alongside some EMPs that he apparently has).

He unleashes his mini-T-Rex...and it's immediately punched out by the lead Commando.

No, really.

The group wander around, but find out that the gas will turn people into Zombies.  I mean, if it revives dead things, why not...right?  Right?!?

They also take time to make bathroom jokes in the bathroom.  Joy.

At this point, this is one thing- a Dino Crisis Fan Film.
Why not just license that?

It all comes to a head as the survivors try to battle the never-scary T-Rex puppet and stop the gas attack.

Can they?

Should you just read the 2014 Book of the same name instead?

It's free, so see for yourself.

Oh boy, where do I begin?

The Story is not good.  It is cliché-riddled, silly and just plain dumb.  It's not presented well, with narration used as a storytelling crutch.

The Acting is not good.  It's all pretty amateurish, with everyone playing stock nothings.  The Script, as noted, did not help.

The Special F/X are not good.  The T-Rex Puppet looks alright (better than a CGI one by them would), but quickly loses its luster.  The constant, obvious green screen work is bad, bad, BAD.  So fake.

I get it- they had very little money.  When that is the case, make a Film that you can reasonably do.  Don't try to make a Film that would cost $50 million if you only have $50 thousand (give or take).  I encourage good Filmmakers to try...just much better than this.

A silly, kind of boring Film.  It's worth seeing if you want to see how silly and fake a low-budget Film can be.