100 Million Years behind (100 Million Years BC (DVD))

Member Name: marcellep

Product:	100 Million Years BC (DVD)
Date:	31/05/08 (133 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: NONE

Disadvantages: Poor film, Poor Acting

Having seen this dreadful movie I thought it was only fair that I should warn other just how bad it really is. This is my first movie review so I am sorry if it's not up to scratch.

100 Million Years B.C

Directed by 26 year old Griff Furst and written by Paul Dales. Between the two of these professionals' guys they have racked up a few decent films. That was until they decided to get involved in this terrible film.
The Cast
Michael Gross - Dr. Frank Reno
Christopher Atkins - Erik Reno
Greg Evigan - LCDR Ellis Dorn
Stephen Blackehart - Lt. Robert Peet
Geoff Meed - CPO Lopes
Wendy Carter - Betty
Marie Westbrook - Ruth
Dean Kreyling - Chief 'Bud' Stark
Phil Burke - Stubbs
Nick McCallum - Burke
Aaron Stigger - Manriquez
Daniel Ponsky - Jones
James Viera - Przyzicki
Dustin Harnish - Young Frank Reno
Prince Pheenix Wade - Myrick
Most of these actors have worked on some impressive films.

what's it all about

Set way back in 1940 when Dr Renno (Michael Gross) comes across time travel and decides to send 21 crew members from a Naval Marines too the best scientists back to 100 million years BC. This is what gives the film its title. Just as you expected something goes wrong and not all the crew make it back in time. So just what went wrong? They managed to get to 100 million years BC but how do they intend to get back. The group come up with ideas that using cave paintings they will be able to communicate with their scientists back home. If only it was that easy eh. In the end Dr Renno decides to send a small group back to 1940(originally date) but one major problem here..... They accidentally manage to bring a huge man eating dinosaur back to 1940 with them.... The huge man eating dinosaur is then let loose on a 1940 Los Angeles.
If you last the whole film you will be bored for a ridiculous 85mins

My Thoughts on this movie

I am no huge film critic nor am I a huge film fan, but anything with dinosaurs in it I seem to love for some reason. The likes of Jurassic park all those years ago were amazing. Taking in to consideration that J Park was released in 1993 and those effects where breathing taking.
This film is cheap, boring and to be honest the dinosaur looks fake right from the beginning. There is none. There seems to be very little in the way of special effects and the story line was rather poor. One thing that got to me is that when you sit there looking at the screen the dinosaurs seems out of proportion. I lost interest half way thought this film and I personally would not recommend this film to anyone; it's not even a film to watch when you're bored. I am not sure what market this film is aimed at but all I can say is the story, acting and special effects are all very poor.


If you want to buy it

Cheapest I can find online is
£10.99 from Play.com
The DVD is rated 18 and has a few special features such as Dino Evolution- Blooper Reel - Deleted Scenes.
Run time - is 85 minutes
Widescreen
English - Dolby Digital 2.1
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

If you want to see how shocking the DVD really is watch a free clip @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8P_xR8Fh58

Summary: See Review and avoid film