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:  9 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
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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 Raptor Island... When videogames go bad. February 21, 2010
Julian Kennedy (St Pete Florida)
Raptor Island: 1 out of 10: The Sci-fi channel has produced some stinkers (Boa vs. Python, Boa vs. Cobra, and Feather Boa vs. Mink) but Raptor Island easily eclipses all of them. There simply are not movies this bad outside of a Lionsgate home movie film festival.
Where can one begin? The special effects have to be seen to be believed. The entire film is in CGI (except for Lorenzo Lamas who is decidedly not animated) and it couldn't be more poorly done. Remember those old prehistoric planet movies from the sixties where they would superimpose some iguana stock footage attacking some middle aged vaudeville guys dressed as caveman? Raptor Island lowers that bar considerably.
The raptors seem to have been ported from an old Saturn CD-Rom game. They have five distinct frames of animation each and blink in and out of the picture. Gunshots are represented by graphics that would make House of the Dead weep and the raptors when shot ignore the bullets then fall down.
The raptors are perhaps the stupidest creatures ever shown on film ignoring actors and each other as they gaze off into the distance with bloody mouths that look like a five year old got into mommy's make-up box.
Add other equally bad CGI rendered sand, ships and planes and one really wishes the MST3000 crew would come back for an encore anniversary show.
With very badly rendered monsters and a throwaway script one could at least hope for something gratuitous to liven things up. (You know a decapitation scene or skinny dipping scene or a combination of the two.) Raptor Island provides nothing of the sort. This is family friendly entertainment. But only if you really really hate your family.
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 5 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!
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