100 Million BC starts in Los Angeles where a crack team of Navy Seals are briefed by Lieutenant Dorn (Greg Evigan) & scientist Frank Reno (Michael Gross) about a top secret mission to travel back 70 million years into the past using the time machine created by Reno to rescue the last group of soldiers & scientists who used the time machine & were stranded in the past. In no time at all the team lead by Reno are back in the Cretaceous period & have found the few surviving team members from the previous expedition. They head back to the time portal to return home but things go wrong & a huge Tyranosaurus Rex is propelled forward to 2008 & goes on a destructive rampage throughout Los Angeles...

Directed by Griff Furst who was probably so embarrassed by the finished product he hid under the pseudonym of Louie Myman (don't forget this is the guy who actually had the nerve to put his real name on the opening credits of I Am Omega (2007)) & is yet another 'mockbuster' from The Asylum, you know the score they take a recent Hollywood blockbuster or two & totally & unashamedly rip it off. In the case of 100 Million BC the title is obviously ripped-off from 10,000 BC (2008) although the story is more of a rip-off of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) with the whole Tyranosaurus Rex on a rampage through a modern contemporary US city, there's a touch of Stargate (1994) in the way the time travel device looks & works & probably more by accident than design the time travel angle of the film feels like the Doctor Who serial Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974) where various dinosaurs start appearing in modern day London & if that wasn't enough the plot bears more than a passing resemblance to the British telly series Primeval (2007) which also features time travelling dinosaurs wrecking havoc in moder times. There is not one single original idea or moment in 100 Million BC & that I can guarantee you. This film is so bad in so many ways it's untrue, it's just so badly made & written throughout it's impossible to know where to start. The plot has so many holes it's incredible, like people jumping out of helicopters 30 feet in the air without any safety ropes & literally landing on their feet unhurt, like the idea that someone has to stay behind to close the time portal or it will expand & destroy everything but if that's the case who prevented the time portal in the past destroying everything when the Tyranosaurus Rex ate Reno? Since Reno was dead who turned the time portal off? The whole concept sucks, only Reno knows how to operate the time portal thing? For God's sake it only has three buttons on it, how hard can it be? Erik seems to operate it OK at the end though doesn't he? What if anything actually happened to Reno? The rest of the team would have been stuck, right? I could probably go forever about all the plot holes, bad writing & the general lack of sense & logic but I can't be bothered. On the positive side at the least the film moves along at a decent pace but since it's awful you won't care & it's often unintentionally funny.

Before I watched 100 Million BC the worst dinosaur effects I had ever seen were in Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs which are literally just plastic toys & while the awful CGI in 100 Million BC aren't as bad as those they are still awful. I would say they are the second worst dinosaur effects I have ever seen, some of 3D models & the animation is absolutely dire beyond belief. It's no exaggeration to say that most regular home PC's could produce better CGI effects & your average computer game has better looking more realistic graphics & animation. The other effects are terrible too, there is one scene set inside a tunnel in which a car is seen travelling backwards in plain sight & it just looks bizarre, there are bags of continuity errors & despite spending six years 70 million years in the past those people still have nice haircuts & are remarkably well groomed! That's another thing, the film states that the team travel to 70 million years BC so why is the film called 100 Million BC? The editing is awful with a lot of scenes so choppy & badly shot it's sometimes hard to understand what's happening.

Largely shot in California this has rock bottom production values & is just badly made throughout, I don't wish to sound unkind because I don't believe anyone deliberately sets out to make a bad film but 100 Million BC is simply terrible in all regards. The acting is awful too, a few of the girls are good looking I suppose but that's the best thing that can be said.

100 Million BC is a rip-off of several much better films & TV show's, watch the film Jurassic Park or the telly series Primeval or the Doctor Who story Invasion of the Dinosaurs instead as they are all infinitely more enjoyable than this awful film & aren't that different.

100 MILLION BC is one of the very worst films I've seen The Asylum put their name to. It's as bad as that SHERLOCK HOLMES film they made with monsters and the like. The story has a badly-acting group of marines heading back to prehistoric times to catch some dinosaurs. They manage to bring one back to the present, but it escapes and goes on a rampage. The whole film is an odyssey is terrible performances mixed with equally terrible CGI dinosaur effects which are even worse than the ones in that BBC series WALKING WITH DINOSAURS. The slow pace means that the film just goes on and on with no end in sight until most sane viewers will be tearing their hair out at the inanity of it all.

But in all honesty, is it really saying that much? I watched this out of curiosity as I make it a habit of watching these Syfy movies(most of which are really bad) when there is nothing else on. I have seen worse movies than 100 Million BC and there have been worse from SyFy, however this aside that doesn't stop it from being terrible. The production values are cheap and shot so darkly sometimes you can hardly make out what was going on and the effects look phony and the sound is both murky and lacking in authenticity. The music is canned, which can mean tacky and annoying, the case here, the story is badly paced often being dull and there are no thrills, suspense or tense build ups to savour and the dialogue is toe-curlingly bad. The acting not helped by some stock and clichéd characters is awful, Michael Gross tries but Chris Atkins is wooden and painful to watch. All in all, I've seen worse, but this was not a good movie at all. 2/10 Bethany Cox