You don’t have to watch a lot of pre-1970s creature features to realize that they are mostly constructed of scenes featuring men in suits or white coats discussing the issue at hand in bland offices or laboratories. This is especially true for the 1950s when the films were made with no money to be viewed back-to-back with another film at a drive-in theatre.
Those scenes were not necessarily exposition dumps, but rather just cheap filler to pad out the films running time. When the horror genre reclaimed its popularity in the 1980s, budget films still had those scenes, but thanks to James Cameron’s Aliens, the dull offices were replaced by hallways and at least one person had to have a big gun, if not being full-on military.
In the 21st century, somebody out there had an idea: what if we make movies that are 95% those filler scenes and base them on plot keywords from popular films? And that’s how The Asylum was born.
In The Asylum’s “Jurassic Reborn” scientists on a secluded island create velociraptors. Just like in that other Jurassic based film series with dinosaurs mostly from the cretaceous period. Well, I say dinosaurs. “Jurassic Park” is one of my favourite films, but I could write a long ass essay on how none of the creatures in it are actual dinosaurs.
The velociraptors in “Jurassic Reborn” are defiantly not dinosaurs and it seems like the filmmakers are trying to be as inaccurate as possible. Perhaps to enrage dino fans to get free publicity. Maybe I’m the fool for writing this and giving the film its first, and probably only critic review on Rotten Tomatoes. But such is life.
It doesn’t really matter, though since Daniel Baldwin (who was on set for half-a-day) has more screentime than the free 3d-asset velociraptor in the film.
This film could have been a boring stage play and I’m willing to bet we are max 6 months away from Asylum releasing a film 100% made by AI.
