Raptor
Raptor
R | 06 November 2001 (USA)
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When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.

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TheLittleSongbird

Raptor was atrocious in every single aspect, but unlike many other terrible movies I've seen there was something hilarious in how awful it was. It looks cheap for starters, the dinosaur effects and designs are incredibly artificial and the editing is all over the place. The footage is over-used and clumsily incorporated in the movie also. The script is terrible and largely incoherent, with Corbin Bernson faring the worst of the actors and the story is predictable, doesn't know what tone it wants to be and also manages to be so derivative of Jurassic Park and Carnosaur yet with the none of their thrills that you can swear they're the same movie. The characters are clichéd, annoying and never developed enough, while the direction is wretched, the attack scenes are visually frenzied and despite the high body count largely unexciting and the acting is very poor with Eric Roberts a bland lead and Corbin Bernson struggling with his terrible dialogue. Of course there are some redeeming values to Raptor, it does have some novelty value and it is not dull either. That doesn't stop it from being badly made, written and acted, so all in all I've seen worse but Raptor was atrocious. 1/10 Bethany Cox

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Sandcooler

The defining scene to this movie is when the fat guy quits, but the evil doctor just gives him one more duty, check on the dinosaurs. Keep in mind that he no longer has this job and so is absolutely not getting paid for this. Also keep in mind it's a goddamn dinosaur and the doctor he's supposed to trust is evil and doesn't like him. But he's still like, yeah okay. That just defined the stupidity in this movie. One Melissa Brasselle proves that seriously anyone can bolt on some breasts and be in movies. I can go ride a mountain-bike between them, but hey aside from that the people of Paraguay are very nice. Eric Roberts gives his absolute worst performance so far, there's no adjective to describe how bored he is throughout. Corbin Bernsen saves what there is to save and you start rooting for him, but they have to stick to the formula of course. And I wonder how much your life sucks when you play like, one of the army guys in this one? How low can your acting career go? The special effects are so embarrassingly bad you expect a sign saying "Studio 3" to get into the frame. It's not even honest pulp, it's all taken from "Carnosaur", which even sucked all by itself. And then I wonder why just anyone is allowed to make a movie.

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ekim1982

You get RAPTOR! Undoubtedly one of the most horrific pieces of cinema ever cut and pasted, Raptor consists of nothing more than a disgraced Eric Roberts and a nameless softcore cable porn starlet romping around poorly constructed sets, with 2/3 of the 'movie' being nothing more than assorted clips of the three Carnosaur movies. I can't even imagine what would possess a studio, no matter how bad their reputation is, to cut footage from 3 existing b-movie laughing stocks, and then proceed to film roughly 25-30 minutes of original footage and insert the Carnosaur clips into it at either inappropriate or completely unrelated parts.Its a funny movie to watch however, simply because its so laughable to see how the movie plays out. Death scenes from Carnosaur 1-3 have been inserted, both human and dino. The sad part is, when the humans are killed, you can plainly tell that the...'actor'...being killed is not the same, ah hem....actor, that was just on screen. For example, a young girl in her early 20's flips out at Corben Bernsen(another once successful Hollywood actor turned b-movie bottom-feeder), and goes into an elevator, at which point a dino pulls her up through the elevator roof into an inexplicably placed room with pipes, and throws her into the pipes where it proceeds to bite off her arm, and then take a tasty bite out of the funzone below the belt (heck of a way to go). If you can get over the bizarrely funny scene of a woman being killed by having her genitals eaten by a mutant dinosaur, you might laugh even harder when you realize that the young girl in her 20's that was wearing a black tanktop and pants has been replaced by a grittier 30-something woman wearing white and black army fatigues.This happens throughout the entire movie, since no sorry excuse for an actor that is on screen is ever the same one getting killed. AT least 2/3 of the movie is assorted Carnosaur clips, and the remaining 1/3 of the footage is some of the most despicable b-movie acting ever recorded. The fact that Corben Bernsen would even be seen in something like this...i'm embarrassed FOR him! Some of the biggest laughs come from the z-list softcore porn starlet they stick with Eric Roberts to serve as the female love interest...truly some of the worst acting ever, even in b-movie terms.Check this out if you've seen the carnosaur flicks and need a great laugh.

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dairmuid

I thoroughly agree that this movie was so bad that it was good. I laughed my butt off the entire time. From the (questionably) sexy Melissa Braselle as an animal control officer, who can't raise her arms above her head for the seeming fear that her fake boobs will pop out, to the sinister Corbin Bernsen as Dr. Hyde ... complete with beret, this movie had me rolling.I think my favorite piece of bad movie making was the splash of blood on the wall when a tyrannosaurus (raptor? what kind of dinosaur was it again?) attacks a marine. You can literally see the blood squirting out of a hose or bottle before it splashes on the wall. Hilarious.I recommend this movie to anyone who is not prepared to take it seriously. Have a few drinks and settle down for a crap-o-rama. It's definitely worth it.

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