After deciding to fix his life, a low-budget actor and his friends decide to rob a bank and start over, but when they're forced to take a woman hostage they stop at a cabin in the woods to a hideout where they find a deadly dinosaur rampaging through the area and must find a way to get away alive.

This was a decent enough effort. One of the better features here is a rather nice starting point to get the various storylines in place for this one. The meta-ness of the bank-robbers features an actor who's performed in numerous low-budget indie fills and his friends looking for extra money and ripoff a project's funding from a local bank so they can start over. Combined alongside the chase from the federal agents and the reasons why she's going up to the lake, the storylines here are handled well enough. There's also a lot to like with the cheesy dinosaur attacks. Mixing together scenes of the creature being prop models or stop-motion shots clumsily inserted for a truly cheesy and goofy setup here featuring the creature showing up highly unexpectedly and chomping on victims. Featuring the creature popping out of the woods to grab anyone that comes across or attacking the house and the various vehicles strewn around the landscape, there's a lot to like here with these inherently silly scenes that carry on nicely to the finale that's an exceptionally over-the-top sequence. All told, these are generally the films' positive features, although this one does have a few issues. One of the biggest factors on display here is the rather curious decision to feature obvious stalling storylines that bring the pacing down quite low. Rather than start with or even feature the botched robbery, there are several setups about their relationships and background with each other that feel unnecessary, much like the constant back-and-forth of the federal agents trying to track them down. Combined with the inability to see the robbery itself, the pacing is slightly off compared to other similar features. As well, the film is also quite obvious with its low-budget limitations at several points. The dinosaur puppet featured here is the big one, looking unlike any traditional species and being unmistakable about its creation at any point it's on-screen, which is another determining factor. While this could be given a berth as simply low-budget charm, there's little mistaking how obvious the shots of the crew being reflected on just about any reflective surface here, from windows to car-door panels and just about every character wearing sunglasses. These are obvious and immensely distracting, lowering this one quite heavily.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Saw 'Jurassic Prey' as part of my low-budget completest quest when it popped up by chance in the recommended for you section. Part of me was oddly intrigued by the premise, despite it being absolutely ridiculous and there are instances of fun dinosaurs on the rampage films (naming them would be unfair).

Was not expecting much from 'Jurassic Prey' to be perfectly honest at the same time. The cover/poster looked cheap, it had a low rating and the reviews were less than promising. So in all honesty was expecting something terrible. Seeing 'Jurassic Prey' with an open mind and fairness intended, it turned out to be irredeemably awful and deserving of every bad thing that has been said about it.

Just for the record, am somebody who hates being critical believe it or not and is more often than not encouraging and aims to be balanced and tries to evaluate rather than completely gushing or bashing, so will always severely object to being called an armchair critic/expert that is thrown around a lot immaturely.

From start to finish, the limited budget shows in particularly the not always very well organised editing and the abysmal look of the dinosaur. The camera work is similarly disorganised and drab. The dinosaur looks awful and has no personality or menace, essentially being unintentionally goofy and lumbering randomly in scenes that are messily executed, tension-free and with no urgency. Nothing memorable about the music.

The human characters are underwritten and have little development or endearing personality with so many silly and less than logical behaviours and decisions (a bugbear of mine and have found myself using it a fair bit recently). None of the actors look comfortable in their roles and don't seem to be having fun at all.

Also found too much of the dialogue on the wrong side of dumb and cheesy, complete with some soapy moments, and that it didn't flow very well. The film had an interesting premise with far too over-familiar execution that has nothing new. The lack of imagination and suspense also hurts the film, too much evokes cringing and the thrills and fun are non-existent.

It's all very contrived, truly ridiculous, paper thin and often not easy to follow. The direction felt like they were not in control of the material and not at ease with the genre.

Overall, awful and with no redeeming features. 1/10 Bethany Cox

OK, this review is based on the 25 minutes of pure boredom that I suffered through when I sat down to watch "Jurassic Prey", and I just had to give up after that, because I had completely lost the will to witness a single minute more of the nonsense that was "Jurassic Prey".

First of all, there was nothing that even remotely resembled a cohesive storyline. The movie is about a group of people who rob a bank, albeit you don't see this incident at all, as I guess the budget didn't allow for that. But wait, then there is a most horribly fake dinosaur stalking around in the area as well. A dinosaur? It just makes no sense what so ever.

The acting in "Jurassic Prey" was as to be expected from a movie such as this. And actually within the first 5 minutes of the movie, it is already established what kind of acting experience you will be in for. Just watch the scene with the two men wearing shades and the naked guy in the theater, enough said. The acting was wooden and questionable at best.

Then lets move on to the dinosaur. Correction, guy in an awfully fake and laughable rubber bodysuit. That dinosaur was so poorly made and so fake that even a blind man would go "for real?" It was so poor that it actually had me laughing hard every time I saw it. And it made absolutely no sense whatsoever that a dinosaur was walking around and just randomly eating people as it sneaked up on them. Yeah, a dinosaur skilled in stealth, it was just that epic! And to add insult to injury, then the scenes where the dinosaur tears into and eats people was just as fake as the dinosaur suit itself. Actually it is so poor that it is worth to see.

And did no one edit this movie or even have half a mind to think that if you have guys with shades, then let's at least put in an effort to have the film crew not be reflected in the lenses of the shades? It was just such an amateurish mistake to make. And it happened more than once during the 25 minutes I managed to suffer through.

It is rare that I give up on a movie, but it does happen every now and then when I sit down to watch a movie which is actually unbearable to watch. And "Jurassic Prey" was one such movie. And I can with all honesty say that I am not even going to bother with giving this movie a second chance. I have seen enough in the first 25 minutes to last me a lifetime.

"Jurassic Prey" scores a bottom-scraping one out of ten stars rating.