I don’t know what it is about dinosaur movies with “Hunt” in the title that makes them suck, but it seems like a recurring theme…… wait, not really, Triassic Hunt was one of the better ones spat out by The Asylum, and to honest this one actually reminds me a little more of Jurassic Attack/Rise Of The Dinosaurs, due the outdoors locations being at the forefront, the mercenary squad sent out with a mission and the cheapo-depo levels of production, being one of those Dazzler Entertaiment distributed titles that immediatly scream “we filmed this in a national park or something”.
the plots sees the cast of Shock Troopers (or more accurately, its Data East knock-off) fighting dinosaurs into a hunting area designed exactly to be a secretive location where the game is jurassic, while “megane Regina from Dino Crisis” tags along and can’t stop giving away that she isn’t there for the actual dino hunt and that she’s basically working undercover to document the whole thing.
the rest of the cast is either people that didn’t make the Shock Troopers audition for either heroes or villains, dumb as brick regardless, who cares, most of them will die well before the 30 minutes mark. Except for old veteran soldier/hunter going about with a lance like he’s Cu Chullain… as in its Fate incarnation, cause the “Lancer curse” applies here too, but he doesn’t die immediatly.
at least Jurassic Hunt knows to make things happen and fast, and it gets into the gist of things right away, no pussyfooting around, i guess, just a constant stream of bullshit, including the evil safari honcho that controls everything behind the scenes that can be seen watching Snakes Outta Compton (since it’s by the same production company, Automatic Entertaiment), so there’s some deliberate attempt at being cheesy, at least they don’t overshoot with overarching subplots or story beats they can’t actually deliver on, not exactly a plus since there’s barely a plot, so they can’t, but still…
Fairly bad CG, par for the course, and this feels even cheaper than Kingdom Of The Dinosaurs, just barely out of the “we larped and made a movie by putting dinosaurs in post” tier, at least they remembered that these often not so convincing CG dinosaurs should cast shadows, not always the case with these, the bar is pretty low, but to be fair, it’s not a badly shot movie, for something coming out of a sub-Asylum tier company specialized in low budget crap, and at times they dinosaurs are almost believable enough to register as actually existing diegetically.
Oddly the practical effects, cheap as they are, aren’t THAT bad, still preferrable over the awful CG bullets that magically hit the target and cause digital gore regardless of angle or anything.
While it’s mostly watchable in the sense it doesn’t dwell too much on any singular scene and just keeps going, the downside is that towards the end it kinda remembers it has to have some semblance of character development and personality, might as well since the cast of expendables has been thinned out, it’s not the worst choice, but it’s kind of oddly placed.
And bold to assume that i would start caring when the movie is almost over just because now they actually talk like humans and don’t spout cliches at each other or some boring bullshit, i’d rather prefer the “funny bullshit”, like the Latino mustached hunter swatting “Compys” using just a bow without arrows that he holds like a blade, far more memorable than the dialogues.
Don’t really have much else to say or bitch about, honestly, Jurassic Hunt it’s pretty typical for this kind of low budget made for TV or direct-to-video dinosaur flick, the “private hunt with dinosaurs as the special game to shoot at” angle doesn’t really add much, this is is just plain sub-par, sub-mediocre dinosaur crap, and its no frills approach is not really worth of either praise or condemnation, just not a movie worthof such discussion anyway, since it’s still on the lower tiers of jurassic slop (the kind that deserve it’s metascore fluctuating on 2-3 out 10) and to be honest it’s one of those where i’d wish it was 10 minutes shorter, with its thin premise stretched far and wishing it would get to the point and end, instead of dragging itself barely over 80 minutes.
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