JURASSIC CITY is another mindless Z-grade B-movie designed to cash in on the release of JURASSIC WORLD. I was surprised that it wasn't made by The Asylum or the Sy Fy Channel. The story is preposterous and involves a secret military experiment that releases a horde of ravenous velociraptors into a prison currently inhabited by a bunch of bimbo characters and the usual one tough good guy. A number of characters are munched in bad CGI effect scenes while old-timers Ray Wise and Vernon Wells are there to run around in an attempt to convince you that a proper story is present. Protagonist Kevin Gage delivers the most laid back performance ever, never showing a trace of emotion even when confronting his own seeming death.

This movie is a cheap version of a Jurassic Park movie. I guess they were trying to piggyback off of the upcoming release of Jurassic World (2015) at the time this movie came out. In the movie, a secret laboratory in Las Angeles contains dinosaurs (without a real deep development of how or why), and inevitably these dinosaurs escape. To avoid them reeking havoc in the city, they are diverted to a prison where the dinosaurs have run-ins with an unlikely team of inmates consisting of a rapists on death row, a small group of sorority teens in for a misdemeanor, and a trippy druggy. The effects, as dinosaurs rip humans apart, look like they can be done by any amateur with a few prosthetics. The acting was even worse. If it was intended to be a B horror movie, it might not be so bad, but I really don't think it was supposed to be. Leave the dinosaur movies to Michael Chrichton and Steven Spielberg.

The idea is OK, some dinosaurs escape captivity and run wild.But...The acting is terrible. Some of the worst I have ever seen. Too melodramatic when they should be dramatic and way too dramatic when there was no need.The special effects are horrendous! Jurassic Park had good special effects, Jurassic City just looked fake. The dinosaurs were on a slightly different lighting level to the rest of the scene. It reminded my of the original Godzilla movies.The story had some stupid twists, stuff that would never happen in real life and one specifically which is so bad it made me wonder what the writers were thinking.All in all, one of the worst films I have ever seen, but not in an annoyingly bad way, just in a "what am I watching" type way. If you have 90 minutes to waste then you could do worse than this one, but it will be a waste of 90 minutes.

Everyone's been too harsh on this poor movie. It's a B movie, they deserve a different kind of respect. Do people know how hard it is to make a movie? If I made this I'd be proud. The actors acted their wee socks off and a couple of them were really good. They even had that mad punk from Mad Max II & Weird Science. He's a legend. Looking a bit different but his voice gives him away, straight away.The cinematography was good. Whoever did the special effects did their best with whatever Jurassic software they had. The story was... well, it's a B movie. I was glued to my seat throughout, (went for a pee once). Watched it with my grandsons & they enjoyed it immensely. The best bit is there wasn't too much gore or bloody splatterings to make it kid unfriendly. They could have made this a very bloody movie just for the sake of it but carefully held back. Professionals in the making. This is a good popcorn B flick. This was 10X better than Sharknado 1 and 2. This is on a par with The Blob (1958). No, actually it's better. I will definitely watch Jurassic City 2, where hopefully we get filled in on why there were dinosaurs loose in the city.Recommended viewing. 7/10 B rating.