Plot is not too bad for all things considered, Syfy did its best with its budget here. ![]() We get some logical conflict, some swrod fight between conquistadors, also fights between the Native Aztecs and of course The thunder lizard. “You speak my language” when neither is speaking Spanish or Nahuatl. This Tyrannosaurus Azteca looks rather fake but I”m sure it was a big part of the budget, clearly CG and funny at times but not in a bad way, looks like from a video game. Double effort for trying to make it fit in continuity. Funny enough the ending of the story can be somewhat similar to something that happened and because of this and a town that was left untouched by Cortez in Mexico, I found this info by coincidence shortly after watching the movie and found it amusing, unsure if the writers knew and decided to change a few key aspects by adding a dinosaur but somehow I doubt. I think the Aztec setting is severely underused in fiction with so much potential so I’m glad they went with it. The sacrifice and the feathered Rex were done better by the 19 Dinosaur Island movies. ![]() The T-Rex needed feathers to make it like the ancient Aztec god named “the feathered lizard” though to make it accurate, so close to making it perfect. Having T-rex be the Quetzalcoatl is fantastic though. We begin with a sacrifice which for the Aztecs was normal day to day, wish it hadn’t been so dark. This movie is so ridiculous that I can’t help but love the concept. There’s even a hint of A-TEAM (the original television series with Mister T) in there as, with plenty of firepower on display, no one is seemingly capable of hitting the broadside of a barn (or a forty foot tall sea behemoth).We all know the story of Cortes conquering Mexico, but few know the story of him fighting a T-Rex. ![]() Like all of those cheesy 1950s monster and science fiction movies, this is the good kind of bad, a bizarre mish-mash of THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (the template for director Mark L Kester), GODZILLA (GOJIRA, the original), KING KONG (the one from 1976, with Charles Grodin in the title role… or was it Jessica Lange? Oh, wait… never mind ), JURASSIC PARK, GREMLINS, THE DEEP and CAPTAIN PHILLIPS. POSEIDON REX is a great movie to put on when you and your friends are just hanging out, looking for something mind-numbingly incoherent to fill an hour-and-a-half. POSEIDON REX (Brian Krause and Anne McDaniels put the pinch on a newly hatched P-Rex) (publicity still) Thi s movie is kinda like a train wreck or watching the Chicago Cubs… as devastating and horrible as it is, you just can’t look away. By the way, if the military represented here (some unidentified branch of the United States Armed Forces and the Belize Coast Guard) is the best and brightest, we are all doomed to be eaten by gigantic beasts of some variety. And, even though the characters seem to contradict themselves from one line to the next, it’s still better than those horrid movie remakes of STARSKY AND HUTCH, GET SMART and THE DUKES OF HAZZARD. The special effects are hit and miss: The CGI gunfire is bad… really bad the creature – a sea-dwelling cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, though bigger and meaner, with tiny flippers for arms – is, alternately, awesomely believable in the underwater sequences or appears to be a cartoon overlay that never quite matches up with the surrounding terrain when it’s out of the water. But, still… POSEIDON REX (publicity still) Here, while the acting (particularly by the leads, Brian Krause, Anne McDaniels and Steven Helmkamp ) is histrionically over the top (as is the dialogue, which may account for the acting), you can at least conceive of some of this stuff actually happening… well… maybe not. Personally, I found those “SyFy Originals” unwatchable, at best. Okay… let’s get this out of the way right now: POSEIDON REX is no SHARKNADO or SHARKTOPUS. (DVD and Digital ANDERSON DIGITAL/ITN DISTRIBUTION/TITAN GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT (79 minutes/Unrated) 2014)
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