Back from extinction!
2013-05-11
N/A
88 min
Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs
King Kong meets the first two Jurassic Parks with petite cutie Jillian Rose Reed
A genetic-research company develops various dinosaurs from DNA, but (big surprise) they all escape during a theater showing in Los Angeles. Treat Williams and Jillian Rose Reed star as a fireman and daughter trying to survive the debacle. Ronny Cox is in the Richard Attenborough role.
“Age of Dinosaurs” (2013) is an Asylum flick that rips-off the escape sequence of King Kong and elements of the Jurassic Park movies, especially the first two. Many of the dinosaurs are serviceable for a TV film, but the CGI fire and explosions are hopeless. I enjoyed the heartwarming relationship of father & daughter and unique cutie Jillian is worth the price of admission. Other than these factors and a decent diverse cast that takes the material seriously, it’s an okay knock-off hampered by unoriginality. But I liked the climax with a pteranodon at the “Hollywood” Hill.
The film runs 1 hour, 28 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles.
GRADE: C/C-
