As the reboots of the Jurassic Park films have shown with Jurassic World and Jurassic World Rebirth there’s still a huge appetite for dinosaurs and Primitive War takes up the mantle with a high concept sci-fi spin set in a retro past.
Here it’s Vietnam 1968 where the film opens with a sequence with Green Berets that goes quickly awry for the troop and their disappearance sees Colonel Jericho (Jeremy Piven chewing the scenery in gleeful fashion) appointing a Vulture Squad, an elite group of soldiers though some of them make Prince Harry look almost credible as a military man, led by tough as nails Sgt Baker (Ryan Kwanten) to go find those berets.
What Colonel Jericho and what the squad are wholly unaware of is a bunch of Soviet operatives having covertly constructed a device of a Hellish Hadron Collider that’s restored dinosaurs from the past to the present and as such are munching their way, often in spectacularly gory fashion, through anything and everything and those military men are all on the menu.Deliriously daft but there’s a lot of fun to be had here especially towards the end with the ever diminishing troop machine gunning wave after wave of rampaging dinosaurs.
But Primitive War is not without its issues being far too long and director Luke Sparke, a former visual effects artist who also supervises the effects here as well as a whole load of other roles doesn’t quite pull off the realism that the far bigger budgeted Jurassic franchise does with its dinosaurs. In the daylight the quality of CGI work is obvious and is far more persuasive in the night scenes where they can’t be quite so keenly scrutinized even if they do occasionally seem to be impervious to heavy artillery fire.
With nods to Predator this ups the ante in terms of gore and profanity and like ‘Kong Skull Island’ (2017) there’s a terrific use of music in this with classic rock notably Creedance Clearwater Revival’s monumental ‘Fortunate Son’ and what action film isn’t instantly improved with that track?
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Jeremy Piven chatted to us about the making of Primitive War…….
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