Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996)

User Rating:

2.2/10   

Director:

Jonathan Winfrey

Writer:

Rob Kerchner (story)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Terror will never be extinct.

Plot:

International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.

Plot Keywords:

Dinosaur | Police | Uniform | Policewoman Killing | General

Cast

Scott Valentine	...	Col. Rance Higgins
Janet Gunn	...	Dr. Hodges
Rick Dean	...	Polchek
Anthony Peck	...	Gen. Pete Mercer
Rodger Halston	...	Sanders
Terri J. Vaughn	...	B.T. Coolidge
Billy Burnette	...	Furguson
Morgan Englund	...	Rossi
Stephen Lee	...	Sergeant
Justina Vail	...	Proudfoot
Cyril O'Reilly	...	Dolan
Abraham Gordon	...	Billings
Michael McDonald	...	Police Officer Wilson (as Michael James McDonald)
David Roberson	...	Johnson
Jonathan Winfrey	...	Bob

Also Known As:

Primal Species (USA)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:18 | UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Concorde-New Horizons

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the opening convoy scene, the troops are not wearing US uniforms. Troops never had desert camo t-shirts and the US helmets were liners without the 'pot'.

Quotes:

Officer: It's like a Friday the 13th Nightmare.

Movie Connections:

Follows Carnosaur (1993)

What in the...

I had heard about the Carnosaur trilogy and now low-budget and highly disliked they were, but I wasn't expecting them (at least this one) to be so bad. But I was wrong. This movie is pretty terrible and obviously a Jurassic Park want-to-be with the Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptors. The dinosaurs are all made out of rubber and looked incredibly fake. When the Tyrannosaur is ramming at a large set of containers with its head, you can see its hind legs flip and twitch very stiffly and leave large fold-ins in the rubber skin. Although, the blood in this movie is actually pretty decent. If they just had a little bit better of a direction (even a little bit better) this would have been a pretty decent low-budget dinosaur flick. And another thing I don't get, if the Velociraptors are faster than all other animals with the exception of the cheetah, how come they run very slowly across the room so that you can tell they are obviously either puppets or men in heavy suits. I mean, come on, the suits from the old 60s Godzilla films worked better than this. And why...just why do all of the creatures in all low-budget sci-fi movies have some kind of strangely-colored vision?