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From my favorite movies..

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It was very difficult for me to take Triassic(huh) Park seriously due to the weak effects, script and performances. I think this is one movie that Emilia Clarke(Sarah Connor, Terminator Genisys) would wanna forget. She was sincere in her role but the average direction makes her performance forgettable. The fossils that turn alive look unintentionally funny than creepy and the effects make it worse. Most of the actors who come before the camera(except for the lead Steven Brand, Kirsty Mitchell, Raoul Max etc.) have dead pan expressions even when they have just been attacked by the fossil raptors, tyrannosaurus or the birds whatever. If you're a fan of monster or creature movies and don't mind how hilariously bad some can get, you'll survive this one. Pros - Sarah Conner, Cons - the Triassic(script, actors, effects) attack.

Three people are running away from an unseen horror. They reach a water tower. Inside, the sheriff insists a man and a woman climb to relative safety, then he opens the water tower door. Look Out! …an animated dinosaur skeleton is revealed as the monster in pursuit… We then flashback "24 hours earlier," to discover what led us here… Three skeletal dinosaurs became "animated" during an incident in an Indian (Native American) Museum. Taking responsibility for the dinosaurs is Native American rights activist Raoul Trujillo (as Dakota), who has a tantrum in the Oregon museum. However, the real bad guys are greedy land developers who want to desecrate ancient Indian land. Perhaps the dinosaurs are mad because Indians took the land from them. No, that doesn't made sense – but neither does this movie...Director Colin Ferguson's bickering co-stars are Steven Brand (as Jake Roundtree) and Kirsty Mitchell (as Emma Neil). With any luck, they will rediscover their love before the closing credits, and make rebellious daughter Emilia Clarke (as Savannah) happy enough to do an Indian rain dance. Running with the duo during the opening minutes, resourceful Gabriel Womack (as Wyatt) is the most useful member of the cast. The worst part of the horror is when Mr. Brand takes two young recruits from the local college to shoot a dinosaur with very big guns. Brand should have known what was going to happen the first time one of the dinosaur skeletons disassembled, but he stands there with a dumb look on his face instead of telling the two young guys to run inside… like, as fast as possible. Then, everyone forgets them.*** Triassic Attack (11/27/10) Colin Ferguson ~ Steven Brand, Kirsty Mitchell, Raoul Trujillo, Gabriel Womack

Triassic Attack is set in Mill City in the US where a large university have brought half the land & intends to demolish half the houses & shop's & expand the current university. A local Native American named Dakota (Raoul Trujillo) is opposed to the plans which will destroy his ancestor's heritage, he also feels his people were tricked into signing away their land & is doing all he can to stop the bulldozer's moving in. Dakota's uncle happens to be Jake Roundtree (Steven Brand) the town Sheriff who has to abide by the law, frustrated & angry Dakota decides to use ancient magic to save the town & performs a rite in which evil spirits possess three Dinosaur skeleton's bringing them to life, the rampaging skeleton's attack & kill anyone they meet & it's up to the Sheriff & his archaeologist wife Emma (Kirsty Mitchell) to figure out a way to stop them, meanwhile Dakota feels guilty & also sets out to stop them...Directed by Colin Ferguson this is yet another of the endless line of crappy films made by the SyFy Channel, how do these keep getting made? They never get good reviews & no-one seems to like them but for some reason the SyFy Channel continues to churn them out, someone must watch them? People like me I suppose who watch in the hope their next film might be good & since they air on television for free decide it's worth the effort because we haven't spent any money renting or buying the thing, I am still waiting for that good SyFy Channel film & believe me I have seen plenty of them. First a fact, none of the Dinosaur's featured in Triassic Attack actually lived during the triassic period, go ahead & look it up I think you will find that I am right. What the hell happened to the 'Science' in 'Science Fiction'? I guess the makers just thought Triassic Attack sounded better then Cretaceous Attack. Lets not kid ourselves though, nothing in Triassic Attack makes any sense & the whole film feels random & cobbled together, the script tries to be deep & have a parent daughter conflict angle while it also tries to say that while we have to look to the future we can embrace & remember the past but these attempts at serious drama are just laughable & are there to pad the running out between the Dinosaur attacks. The living Dinosaur skeleton's also pose many questions like how can they make roaring noises? How can they see? How can that one fly without & wings? Then at the end the two join together & we get a flying T-Rex as the film just gets even sillier. All attempts at humour, scares, suspense, tension & human drama fall flat & the whole 86 minutes is a chore to sit through.The special effects as you might suspect are poor, from the electricity bolts at the end to the Dinosaur skeleton's themselves, they just look absurd & the whole concept behind is daft. There's not even any decent gore either, there's a couple of dead bodies & a arm in a tree but nothing else worth mentioning. It's even odd that the hate figures of the film survive, I mean the university dean who is shown as a money grabbing white guy doesn't get so much as a scratch on him & Dakota the guy responsible for bring the Dinosaur skeleton's to life & is therefore indirectly responsible for at least a dozen death's is seen as the hero & saviour at the end!Although set entirely in the US this was apparently filmed in Bulgaria, the production values are cheap & it looks like the television film it is. The acting isn't great, the cast look nice enough but unremarkable.Triassic Attack is yet another instantly forgettable made for television SyFy Channel creature feature that is just as boring, badly written, incompetently made & silly as most of their other's. Don't bother wasting your time.

One test for a good show of any type is a simple question: did you care about the characters? I cared about the sheriff (who reminded me a bit of the sheriff in "Eureka"), about his estranged wife and about his daughter. Three likable actors portrayed the parts and I thought did good solid work. I objected for a moment at the skeletons breathing and bellowing without lungs but they were animated by *magic* after all. This is not a National Geographics special; it is a daft little fantasy. With good supporting actors, a couple of imaginative twists and a minimum of gore "Triassic Attack" became a fine little movie. Low expectations and being ill may have had something to do with it but I thoroughly enjoyed the time I "wasted" on this. I am confused about the title: none of the bony critters looked to be from the Triassic to me!