Raptor Island |  | Director: Stanley Isaacs
Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, Steven Bauer, Hayley DuMond, Michael Cory Davis, Peter Jason
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Genre: none
Rating: Unrated
ESRB: Teen
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: ANBD13283D
UPC: 013131328394
EAN: 0013131328394
Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 2004
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 01/29/2008 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr
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 PIECE OF TRASH MOVIE! November 7, 2009
Warren E. Moore (Houston Texas)
This has to be the WORST movie I have ever seen... Im a Lamas fan.. but this is horrible.. bad acting, horrible fx, plastic Raptor's.. at that loser from Scarface.. Bauer.. what a goon.
Avoid this trash like the plaque.. I warn you now!
 Sci Fi Channel Dino Fluff August 12, 2009
John Patrick Fischner (Needville, Texas, USA, Earth, Milky Way Galaxy, MIND Of GOD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was not meant to be a great movie. If you are a fourteen year old looking for a new dinosaur vs people movie,this will probably still disappoint.I love monster movies. I love dinosaurs! I love dopey drive-in fodder. Allowing for all that,this was still not a good movie.
I have seen better SPFX on video games. I have read better dialog in comic books. Sadly, it was too bloody for younger viewers and too stupid for older ones.
When it comes to monster movies, I really am a cheap date, shamelessly easy to entertain. This was just a sad waist of effort.No excuse for that one. They could have done everything better.
JPF
Don't buy it expecting anything great. July 16, 2009
L. Berry
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a "Sci-Fi Channel original". Simply put, it's bad acting, bad language, bad CGI and overdone sex at the most ridiculous and absurd times. But this movie, admittedly, does depart from that pattern. There is no sexual interaction between the two main protagonists, and the acting is acceptable. That said, this movie should win an award for crappy CGI. For example, a raptor, which looks nothing like its prehistoric self, is shot. A little burst of red appears where it was shot. no wound. No reaction. its shot enough times, and it just falls over. On top of that, the "trained soldiers" don't seem to grasp the concept of conserving ammo. The plotline gives no explanation for the presence of the dinosaurs, a lousy excuse for their size, and doesn't even factor in the T-Rex, or whatever the heck it was. In my opinion, it would have been a better movie altogether, is the dinosaurs were just not there, and it had been a spec-ops type movie.
in short, don't buy this expecting it to be the next Jurassic Park. Don't buy it if you're a dinosaur buff, as you will be highly offended. Buy it for those days you just feel like watching something pointless.
 Raptors, raptors, Lorenzo Lamas & more raptors December 30, 2008
The Straw Man (Aloof October on April's Birthday)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I must say that I didn't have high expectations for this movie. The first red flag was that Anchor Bay distributed this movie on DVD. God bless Anchor Bay, they release (and re-release) some of the oddest and off the cuff movies out there. Now many times odd and off the cuff can also be cheesy and corny. The second red flag is this movie was made for the Sci-Fi Channel, equating it to a direct to video movie without the bad language and nudity. Yet this movie ended up being pretty good, for what it was, cheesy and corny.
With this taken into consideration, let's enter "Raptor Island". This movie made in 2004 stars Lorenzo Lamas (in every B movie in l990s and television show Renegade) and Steven Bauer (Scarface). Well the plot is very simple, even though the movie could have been ten minutes shorter. Lorenzo Lamas is leading a Special Forces team to capture Steven Bauer and crew. The latter is a terrorist who is dealing with illegal weapons (sadly he doesn't have that much screen time). Well this chase lands the terrorists and the SF team on an island, where raptors live. To add to the mix is an undercover C.I.A. agent played by Hayley DuMond (cute) and a rouge tyrannosaurus-rex. Oh and just my personal observation, none of the characters seemed too shocked that there were prehistoric creatures living on this island.
As noted prior this is a made for TV movie, so no nudity or really bad language. However that didn't bother me, this movie was pretty much non-stop action in the sense that something was always going on. As for the dialogue, I must confess that some of it made me laugh very hard. For instance, there is a scene where Lorenzo says "Blood doesn't lie". That phrase might not make much sense in this review, but the way it is delivered in the film, HILARIAOUS!!!
The raptors themselves (as well as airplanes and boats) look like they were rejects from a Disney-Pixar movie and/or taken off a bad Playstation game. In the case of "Raptor Island" very bad special effects equals very good viewing. There are many dubious and questionable situations and character flaws. Consequently if you can believe that raptors can walk around in modern times and eat people then you should check all realism at the door.
The DVD provides a crisp picture with good sound and a chapter selection. The only special feature is a preview for "The Man with the Screaming Brain" with Bruce Campbell, not a bad movie. Overall "Raptor Island" is a low budget flick that is so cheesy that it is great. This movie would be the perfect solution for a rainy afternoon. God Bless Anchor Bay and bad CGI raptors!
Take off your thinking caps for this one. July 12, 2008
S. Driscoll (Independence, MO USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is one of those movies that is so bad that it can be entertaining. It has unbelievably bad continuity, plot, acting, characters, and all that "other stuff" that makes a movie good. There are some really interesting effects and dinosaurs, but it is used so horribly that at times it seems almost cartoonish.
I will attempt to summarize the movie: special forces are given the mission of rescuing UN - never mind all of that - the good guys end up fighting the bad guys while trapped on a cold, tropical, super-radioactive island, full of dinosaurs, especially raptors, in Chinese territory.
A lot of dinosaurs get shot, how I'm not sure. Through the entire movie the audience is left wondering if they were all going to accidentally shoot themselves. The guns are used as bullet sprayers, the guns are endlessly cocked, ninety-some percent of the bullets hit anything but a dinosaur, and I don't think that one dinosaur is shot when it actually comes on the scene (they have to wait for the dinosaurs to eat someone first, or something).
In the movie, none of the characters can do these things: swim, move out of harm's way, aim a gun, use their grenades, duck or hide (or otherwise take cover when necessary), tell another character critical information (at least not when they need it), etc. The bad guy is indestructible, even though everything bad seems to happen to him (wounded, irradiated, trapped with dinosaurs, lava flows, chased by special forces, etc). The dinosaurs are pretty indestructible too, even coming back to life sometimes.
Nothing in the plot makes sense. I dare you to try to make sense out of it. Overall there is a story there that sort of comes together (which I summarized earlier). Not sure where they got all that plutonium, everything is literally more radioactive than Chernobyl. Do not look for continuity, it is always missing in critical areas. My favorite part is the cartoonish helicopter. From the inside looking out, it is always "a cloudy, stormy sea at night". This is true even if from the outside they are flying during the day, or over the island, or there are no clouds in the sky and the water is perfectly still along the shore.
The most disturbing part is that a lot of the actors are literally on drugs (obviously the person putting the helicopter scenes together was). Nearly all of the guys on the ship, including the helicopter pilot, have dilated eyes, slur their lines, waver, struggling to stand and to say their lines at the same time. Not sure, but I think that sometimes they are wearing lipstick. Also, the characters act as if they are on drugs. They make irrational decisions, forget all their training, don't notice things like dinosaurs or terrorists running around them, and more than one of them decides to become dinosaur food for no apparent reason.
Overall I would have to say that this is the most entertaining "SciFi Presents" movie that I have ever seen. These same scene settings can be seen in nearly all of their movies. Instead of Russia, Europe, or wherever, this time they are supposed to be in Chinese territory - funny how it all looks like Bulgaria. Not sure how I survived watching this movie, but I should get a medal for it or something.
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