Sick Product of a Sick System

A Masterpiece!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The defining scene to this movie is when the fat guy quits, but the evil doctor just gives him one more duty, check on the dinosaurs. Keep in mind that he no longer has this job and so is absolutely not getting paid for this. Also keep in mind it's a goddamn dinosaur and the doctor he's supposed to trust is evil and doesn't like him. But he's still like, yeah okay. That just defined the stupidity in this movie. One Melissa Brasselle proves that seriously anyone can bolt on some breasts and be in movies. I can go ride a mountain-bike between them, but hey aside from that the people of Paraguay are very nice. Eric Roberts gives his absolute worst performance so far, there's no adjective to describe how bored he is throughout. Corbin Bernsen saves what there is to save and you start rooting for him, but they have to stick to the formula of course. And I wonder how much your life sucks when you play like, one of the army guys in this one? How low can your acting career go? The special effects are so embarrassingly bad you expect a sign saying "Studio 3" to get into the frame. It's not even honest pulp, it's all taken from "Carnosaur", which even sucked all by itself. And then I wonder why just anyone is allowed to make a movie.

OK, lets get one thing straight, i love dinosaur movies, even the bad ones. So with this in mind lets proceed. "Raptor" is a truly awful film, in fact its not even a film in its own right as it is cobbled together from bits of "Carnosaur", "Carnosaur 2" & "Primal Species - Carnosaur 3". There is some new footage with Eric Roberts as a sheriff and his busty sidekick running around looking confused, frightened or whatever it is there trying to convey (badly) on the emotional scale but then how can they react to something that was filmed several years earlier. The producers (yes Roger Corman i'm talking about you!) even went to the lengths of hiring 2 people from "Carnosaur" to play bit parts so there grisly death scenes can be reused! So this film is the cheapest of the cheap. Watch the 3 original movies, there no Oscar winners but they have some meritt and entertainment value but avoid "Raptor". Oh, it also has the most pointless sex scene that runs for nearly 10 minutes! Do you think they were trying to pad out the running time?

I understand that Roger Corman loves to do things on the cheap, but this is just sad. I purchased this flick from the dollar bin at my local video store not a month after watching the original Carnosaur. I was blown away; It was the same damn movie, with just some Corbin Bernesen spliced in! It reminded me of all of those 80s ninja movies that took old Kung Fu movies and spliced in a bunch of white ninjas running doing cartwheels with the word "ninja" written on their headbands (if you haven't seen them, check out "Ninja Terminator", "The Thundering Ninja", "Black Dragon" and "Ninja Warriors"). Thanks Roger Corman; you just made me waste a dollar.

I thoroughly agree that this movie was so bad that it was good. I laughed my butt off the entire time. From the (questionably) sexy Melissa Braselle as an animal control officer, who can't raise her arms above her head for the seeming fear that her fake boobs will pop out, to the sinister Corbin Bernsen as Dr. Hyde ... complete with beret, this movie had me rolling.I think my favorite piece of bad movie making was the splash of blood on the wall when a tyrannosaurus (raptor? what kind of dinosaur was it again?) attacks a marine. You can literally see the blood squirting out of a hose or bottle before it splashes on the wall. Hilarious.I recommend this movie to anyone who is not prepared to take it seriously. Have a few drinks and settle down for a crap-o-rama. It's definitely worth it.