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Raptor Island (2004) (TV)
9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
Sugar Maples in the South China Sea Jungle, 2 maggio 2005
Author: CelluloiDiva da Maine
This move was a 10.5 on our Cheez-o-meter, the highest ranking possible, thanks to the earthquake movie of the same name. We knew we were setting ourselves up for a lambasting with "Raptor Island", we just didn't realize how badly.
OK, so the movie is made on the super cheap, with crappy CGI, models that scream "REVELL!!" and an utterly ridiculous plot scenario. I can get past a lot of cheapness necessitated by TV movie budgets, but what I cannot accept is the flagrant carelessness of the director. C'mon, people, the story takes place on an island in the South China Sea: so why are we looking at boreal forest, replete with ivy-covered trees, in what is obviously fall? During the scene where Hack and Jamie are holed up in the plane wreckage, their breath is clearly visible when they speak. Sorry, folks, no matter how you slice it, British Columbia can never stand in for a tropical island.
And what was with that weather at the end? The captain says their "socked in" "in this pea soup", but the island is having a lovely red sunset. Cut to helicopter pilot guy, shown in the cockpit with a raging ocean behind him. Cut to island sunset. Cut to helicopter flying over wrecked zodiac - it's night. Cut to Hack and Jamie, fighting off the bad guy, in full daylight. Cut back to pilot, shown in cockpit with that same raging ocean behind him. Cut to sunset. WASN'T ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION? Could they have at least TRIED to seem as though they were trying to be credible? Though this one was ripe for Joel and the Bots, we had plenty of fun of our own. Sublimely silly and purely ridiculous, there is no excuse to watch "Raptor Island", unless you're socked in by pea soup. Which we were.
4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Bad, but not quite horrible, 22 agosto 2004
Author: Jack da Minnesota, USA
I just watched this on Sci-Fi last night. It's about a group of Navy SEALS who are sent to rescue some sort of CIA operative from a ship, where she's being held by terrorists. Afterwards, the terrorists flee to some island, still with their prisoner, and the SEALS pursue. The SEALS get the CIA person back, but by then they've discovered that the island is overrun by raptors.
Much bad CGI and firing of ammo follows.
Actually, there is some good CGI in the movie, like when they're in the cave which is the "incubator" for the raptors. That looked pretty cool. But most of the raptors that are running around in the woods, well, they look a little worse than the ones in The Lost World TV show, and when the SEALS shoot at them and blood starts spurting out, it's straight out of a video game. You will not be able to stop laughing at some of those scenes. And the raptors just stand there, totally oblivious to the fact they're being shot. One of them takes about 50 rounds to the butt, which is really hilarious because you'd think he'd turn around and see what's going on back there, but he doesn't.
Another thing that's annoying is that the SEALS suffer from a complete and utter lack of peripheral vision. A terrorist can be crouched behind a small tree as a soldier walks by, then the camera pans down and you see the terrorist, and realize there's no possible way that the soldier could have not noticed him. And, since they chose to call these guys SEALS, which makes one think they're highly trained, why do they never aim their weapons at anything? A raptor can be right in front of them and instead of aiming at it, they spray rounds back and forth in a wide arc.
The whole movie is full of such silliness. After being instructed to conserve their ammo, they fire an extra fifty rounds into a raptor that's already dead. It's all this inattention to detail that makes it abundantly clear throughout the film that you're not watching a "real" movie.
But, the last one minute of the movie almost makes it worth it. Some pretty cool CGI, and the best line of the whole movie is the last one.
7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
Funny if you like watching a cinematic disaster in progress, 30 aprile 2005
Author: johnsamo-1 da Los Angeles
Pretty sorry effort. I'm not sure who did a worse job, the director, the CGI guys, or Lorenzo Lamos... Lamos, who's never been that good, just really sucks this time out. It looks like he isn't even trying....
A good director probably could've made this a halfway decent B movie. The CGI wouldn't have been nearly as bad if they'd not held the shot for so long and had planted a few squibs in the forest to add to the illusion that they were actually getting shot. I presume this Navy seal raid had to happen in the daytime simply because the production couldn't afford to light a night scene, but I guess these guys have never heard of shooting day-for-night.
10 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :-
What a pile of fetid dingoes kidneys!!, 22 agosto 2004
Author: diginerd
Went straight into my bottom 10 movies of all time.
It's not even so bad it's actually funny.
It sets whole new standards of how bad a movie can be. Horrible pacing, awful editing, bad acting, and that's without mentioning the "Dinosaurs". I've met 16 year olds who could do better CGI & compositing than exhibited in this stinking mess.
It has no artistic merit, and wound me up so much I actually finally got around to registering after using this site for years simply so I could post this dire warning..
Avoid at all costs.
3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
A Dissenting Review; This Movie is not so bad!, 2 settembre 2006
Author: Showbizbuff
I've read almost all of the reviews of this movie and I have to be the lone voice in the wilderness among them. Practically everyone who posted a review appears to have read the other reviews and then set forth to see how uniquely they could trash this movie "Raptor Island". Some go so far as to rank it as one of the worst movies ever made. Give me a break! You've got to be pretty pathetic to sink that low on a list of all movies ever made. I read a lot of reviews about movies and books, and my goal is to obtain some indication of the worth of a property to provide a little entertainment. To say that this movie was worthless is a disservice to the casual viewer who is simply looking for a cinematic diversion. Perhaps the other reviewers should look objectively at most of the big-bucks flicks whose costs are driven into the stratosphere by big-name stars and by following the direction of the accounting office. Do they sincerely want to watch sequel after sequel for years on end because the accounting office knows that sequels make more money? Frankly, I am deeply grateful that made-for-TV movies exist and are funded by such as the Sci-Fi channel. These movies give the Indy filmmakers a chance to practice their craft; most of them actually seem to follow a script. They give young unknown actors a chance to work. Reviewer after reviewer criticized the Computer Graphics Images (CGI) in this movie. Listen, this movie may not have the very latest CGI, but I can remember years and years of movie-viewing where these CGI effects would have been outstanding. Granted, this movie did not set forth to be a big movie, but it does what it was intended to do, provide a couple of hours of good entertaining TV fare. If you like action flicks with a lot of firepower and an actual script which takes you through a real story, then this movie delivers the goods. I'm certain it didn't win any awards, but it was worth a couple of idle hours on a Saturday afternoon on the SciFi channel. I, for one, hope the SciFi folks don't get discouraged when people dump all over their work as many of the other reviewers did. We need far more creativity in Hollywood and it ain't coming from the big guys, folks. These little Indy movies and made-for-TV movies are where the skills are being nurtured which may give us some decent entertainment in the future. If we could only get the accounting department folks out of script selection, the American movie industry would be revitalized. And I'll tell you another thing, we need more reviewers who have their own point of view, and fewer reviewers who try to out-trash their peers.
3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
um this was pretty bad, 26 agosto 2004
Author: trutru da Long Island NY
Well honestly i didn't expect too much from this movie. The previews for it didn't even show the raptors for obvious reasons. This movie is just plain terrible, probably the worst movie i have ever seen. If you are looking for a good comedy movie this has to be it. the acting is bad, (just watching the guy struggle to trip over a log thta was on the ground took awhile), the lines are just as bad. I feel bad for the actors, they will never get another job again. Now for the worst part of the movie,the CGI. It looks like a Nintendo game from the 80's. from the beginning to end the cgi is terrible. just terrible. honestly horendous. the raptors look terrible, especially when shot at, apparently the effects are similar to the video game DOOM where the blood splats occur for a second and disappear. don't watch, please spare yourself, unless you want to laugh the entire movie
4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Harmless Scifi fun., 15 settembre 2004
Author: 360ent da Los Angeles, CA
For a low budget movie, there is a lot on the screen. Loads of action and some very cool CGI, especially the giant creature and the lava flows. Steven Bauer was humorous and human in the bad guy role and Lorenzo Lamas was nice on the eyes. I wish the "island" was tropical not wooded and that the supporting cast was better. You can pick movies apart for all kinds of reasons, but all in all I like movies with plots that let you check you brain at the door and that you still can have fun with. Raptor Island is one of those kinds of films.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
LOL! I saw this last night, 22 agosto 2004
Author: Jeffrey Skinner da Osceola, Arkansas
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Spoilers omg its like a video game man like sum of the other reviews its so fake i laughed my head off when 1 of the raptors ran up and killed the bald headed seals dude lol!!!!!!!!!!! that was so fake but it was hilarious man some wannabe jurassic park creators trying to hit it big with this movie ...... . and when the dude get chewed up at the end . is that suppose to gross somebody out?? lol and when the raptors follow the helicopter into the water man what does that even suppose to mean i mean how can they follow when their that small and the ocean is that deep???? it don't make sense i mean I've seen some goofy special effect tricks in my day but this has to be 1 of the worst ones I've ever seen man its just stupid i mean even i could tell it was fake when i saw the first Raptor man i mean i know all effects is fake but when u can even tell its fake first off then ya thats bad
another thing that i laughed about this movie is wat one of the other guys said about SEALS pose to be a crack shot and then in this movie they don't even aim at nothing and half the rounds they fire r misses man ? whats up with that and the lava and stuff i mean that doesn't even make sense .. alotta stuff in this film didn't make sense so i basically wasted a hour ina half of my social born life on this movie man !!!!!!! booooo well my advice is if ur blind and cant hear this movies for u.. get it ? get it!
anyways I'm outtie later and don't watch this movie ... "Advice of wisdom!
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
If Jurassic Park were made with a bunch of 12 year olds with toy guns, you'd have this movie., 21 agosto 2004
Author: B Hubbs da Beaverton, Oregon
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
I mean, come on! The CG is terrible. An amateur on his home computer could make better dinosaurs. The actors are horrible as well.
First off, I'd like to give some reasons as to why the story sucked.
(SPOILERS!!!!!)
First off, two forces from different nations, caught up in a fight next to the island was a poor way to get a few people killed by dinosaurs. It lacked creativity.
Second, a plane crashes, causing radiation to spill on to the island, turning the creatures on the island into these raptor creatures. I would like to inform the makers of this film, that nuclear radiation in 40 years will not turn back time. Lizards will not become Raptors of the dinosaur age. Therefore one of two things has happened here. A) The idea behind the story defies evolution, or B) These aren't real Raptors.
Whoever told the actors where to shoot, obviously didn't speak before hand with the FX guys, because the actors shoot all over the place, and never hit the raptors. I saw a shot, where 5 raptors were directly in front of a guy, and he shot the tree to the side. He constantly shot the tree, and never the raptors. Also, whenever a raptor is shot, red gas comes out of the hole, then a bit of blood drips out. What are these things, balloons?
One more thing. Whenever the raptors bite or slash someone before eating them, the person disappears, and there's only a few drops of blood. Not bodies, and gushes. Totally un-realistic. Bodies don't disappear.
I hated this film. I went into it hoping to see a movie with dinosaurs that did not steal from Jurassic Park. I was very disappointed. The raptors looked like the Jurassic Park raptors, and the big raptor looked like the Carnotaur from Disney's Dinosaur.
I would not recommend this movie to anyone. It down right stank.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Cheap CGI just doesn't work, 21 agosto 2004
Author: gamereviewgod da Ohio
A Chinese-manned plane goes down on an uncharted island 40-years ago. Now in present day, a terrorist group has the eye of a Navy Seal team. After blowing up their boat, the Seals team follows them to the island that happens to have some radioactive residents. To go along with the dinosaur issue, an active volcano is also having some problems and is prone to go off any minute. It's a race to get off the island in anyway possible before either the natives or volcano take them out.
"Raptor Island" is a new breed of bad movie. This is a movie so incomprehensible, you'll sit dumbfounded for the entire running time. Lorenzo Lamas is the only recognizable name on the roster and the raptors are so laughable, any attempt at tension turns into comedy.
Almost everything here was created with CG. From the warships to the long shots of the island itself, everything is shown as if in some unentertaining arcade game. The director tries to add some style to the proceedings by using the "shaky" camera, done so well in Saving Private Ryan. Here, it makes absolutely no sense. Not only is it disorienting, but when everyone is standing still, there is absolutely no need for it.
You can literally go on for hours about the films mistakes and obvious flaws. The ending is so foreshadowed throughout the running time, you don't even have to watch the final half-hour (maybe even the final hour) to know what happens. Some of the raptors take 50 rounds to go down, some take three. Why exactly did some radioactive material spawn raptors again? No one seen or figured out an extinct species was alive and well for forty years? If nothing else is on the island, what did they eat before humans made landfall? Simply avoid this dreck at all costs.
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