One of their so called originals.
"They came hunting a terrorist . What they found was terror!" Eeeekkkk!!!
Navy Seals chase a terrorist to an island in the South China Sea only to find out it is populated by CGI dinosaurs. Stars Lorenzo Lamas and Steven Bauer.
Looks like the making of a cheese fest kiddies.
AKA "Jurassic Park 4", minus the necessary funding to actually call it "Jurassic Park" (although by now the JP name is probably very, very cheap).
great just what we needed, another heroin induced movie idea.
Lorezo Lamas, always a sign of qua......*snort* Hahahahahahahahaha!!!! I'm sorry I can't even type that with a straight face. This might be good for some laughs, just like his TV series "Renegade".
Steven Bauer, occasionally he manages to screw up and wind up in a real film like "The Beast" or "Primal Fear"; but my favorite project of his was a Spanish language infomercial for phony psychic/Liberace wannabe Walter Mercado that used to air on Telemundo or Univision in the mid 90s. That took real acting to pretend to take that clown seriously.
Did a story about this and the already in the works sequel for CreatureCorner.com back in early February. Here you go:
What really killed the dinosaurs? Was it an asteroid striking the planet? Was it a sudden dramatic change in climate? Was it a global volcanic eruption? Scientists have been debating this for years and will continue to do so for a long, long time to come. One thing that won’t be debated is the enormous popularity of dinosaur movies, particularly those that deal with science bringing the dinosaur back from extinction. Another one is on the way but this time the dinosaurs will encounter an unstoppable creature for which they are no match. Its name is Lorenzo Lamas.
I know many of you out there have been asking yourselves one question over and over again for years now - Lorenzo Lamas vs. a velociraptor, who wins? That question will finally be answered later this spring on the Sci-Fi Channel when the former "Renegade" star and "Am I Hot?" judge does battle with vicious velociraptors in the sci-fi actioner Raptor Island. Perhaps the most shocking thing about this movie is that despite being a future Sci-Fi Channel premiere movie it is not a Nu Image or UFO Films production and despite being about raptors it isn’t a New Concorde production either. Raptor Island comes to us from a production company called 100% Entertainment and with a company name like that they’d better damn well deliver. Previous 100% Entertainment productions include the sci-fi movies Ravager and Within The Rock and the still unreleased Megalodon. I’ve seen Ravager and Within The Rock so I can say that 100% is too high a percentage to rate their entertainment value.
Oh, you want to know the actual plot to Raptor Island? Well, an elite paramilitary unit is searching for a kidnapped scientist on a tropical island and come to find out the hard way that the dinosaurs aren’t completely extinct. Simple enough, a dash of Jurassic Park mixed with a dash of Predator. And Lorenzo Lamas gets to play soldier because I’m fairly certain he won’t be playing the kidnapped scientist. Now that I think about it, Raptor Island sounds a little like the video game Dino Crisis 2. Hopefully it will at least turn out better than Lamas’ last Sci-Fi Channel outing, the extremely lackluster shark movie Dark Waters.
But whether or not the movie is good or bad or even well liked doesn’t seem to matter to 100% Entertainment as they are already planning a sequel. According to the company’s official website, Raptor Island II will pick up where the first one left off. "At a covert military research center, the Government is conducting experiments to genetically enhance the innate savagery of several raptors recovered from Raptor Island. When the experiments get out of control and the mutated killing machines escape, all hell breaks loose." Interesting. Most movies like this usually copy Alien in the first film and then copy Predator in the sequel, not vice versa. Also, what does it say when there’s more information about the plot to a yet-to-be produced sequel out there than there is to the first film that’s already in the can?
No official airdate has been announced yet for Raptor Island but I’ll let you know when it is announced. Come on, it’s Lorenzo Lamas vs. freakin’ dinosaurs! You know deep down you want to watch it.
Isn't Dark Water the one with the genetically engineered sharks created by Lorenzo's characters long lost father. Lorenzo and his girlfriend had some kind of con game goingat the beginning of it. .
I liked the underwater scenes that were actually not under water. This one is limberger on my cheese scale. I hope Raptor Island is a bit better.
Speaking of Lorenzo , I saw a little special on TVLand where they were having the first TVLand convention and he was there. The girl that played Tabitha on Bewitched was there and said she had six kids of her own and was beside herself because she had met Lorenzo and he said she was HOT!
"The girl that played Tabitha on Bewitched was there and said she had six kids of her own and was beside herself because she had met Lorenzo and he said she was HOT!"
Lamas was a judge on that show AM I HOT? so he knows these things.
He's also in the middle of divorcing his generic blonde ex-Playmate wife so that he can go ahead and get married again to a generic blonde ex-Playmate. I think we know what his preferences are.
Lamas was probably trying to string the former Tabitha along just in case he has to trade down from his series of interchangable hottie wives as he gets older, he about 46 himself now. I've seen Erin Murphy on talk shows, she very attractive, but not at all like what Lamas usually marries.
If nothing else "Raptor Island" is bound to be better than his show "The Immortal" which was such a cheap and blatant rip-off if it had lasted longer than it did it might have gotten the producers sued.
Sci-Fi has been turning out some pretty good cheese lately.
>If nothing else "Raptor Island" is bound to be better than his show "The Immortal"
Yes, the show was crap, but April Telek was hot.
I'll watch Raptor Island because, well, I watch almost all their movies and I like dinosuars.
Am I the only one here nerdy enough to be thinking that good names for JP knockoffs would be:
Mesozoic Park
Triassic Park
Tertiary Park?
Hey, Lamas sounds kind of like LAME ASS!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I mean, ROTFL. That just hit me. I'm a little slow, over thirty and I just got the symbolism of the middle finger salute on the back of that one guy's jacket in "Omega Man".
Oh, yeah.
Cheesey dinos and incompitant "Elite soldiers"....pure Sci-Fi channel.
The sequal plot is lamely predictable.
Heres a clue, Military Industrial Complex....Live wepons are NOT a good idea! They tend to have their own agendas, thank you very much, and that useualy includes eateing the people in the white lab coats!
Power armor, or nothing doing. Thats my point here....
Rotten movie for sure (fast forwarded often on my DVR). But what bothered me the most was the emaciated look of Lorenzo Lamas (skinny neck, sinked in eyes, etc.). He appeared to be quite ill, like AIDS or some other degenerative, life-draining disease -- sure hope not.
Did anyone else notice this, or was the camera?
Raptor Island: Stunk like Dino Dung.
Wow, what a stinker. Lorenzo and Steven should not give up their day jobs at Mickey D's.
Excellent special effects, like the big "UN" on the stern of the sinking ship.
And how many Raptors have to stand five paces from a Navy Seal, be fore he is aware of them? One? No. Two? No. Three? yes, that's the ticket.
This film is an affront to Viewers, Navy Seals, and Terrorists.
And were our Heros using paint guns on the creatures. How about the guy with the rifle who blew them up with one shot? Did he achieve his limit at one, so hge didn't fire at the rest? Must have been a Bunny Hugger?
Well, the film could have been much worse. But Dean Cain wasn't available to star.
This movie makes Toxic Avenger, and Surf Nazis Must Die, appear to be academy award materia.
PU. This was SciFi's worse film of the Millenium. The sponsors should have asked for their money back. I only wish I could get my two hours back.
The one shot explosion came from the grenade launcher attached underneath the barrel of his M-16. This was a piece of crap movie, but they got that part right.
>The one shot explosion came from the grenade launcher attached underneath
>the barrel of his M-16. This was a piece of crap movie, but they got that part right.
And the entire squad only brought one grenade?
What? You expect them to have a full ammo load? Then they might kill too many raptors!
Hah! Navy S.E.A.L.s my galaxy spanning ass!