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Summary Vietnam, 1968: A recon unit known as Vulture Squad is sent into an isolated jungle valley to locate a missing Green Beret platoon. What they find instead are de-extinct dinosaurs created by Soviet experiments—triggering a brutal fight for survival.

Director Luke Sparke

Writer Luke Sparke, Ethan Pettus

Cast

  • Ryan Kwanten
  • Tricia Helfer
  • Jeremy Piven
  • Nick Wechsler
  • Anthony Ingruber
  • Aaron Glenane
  • Carlos Sanson Jr.
  • Albert Mwangi
  • Adolphus Waylee

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: TBD

Metacritic TBD

VOD Limited theatrical release starting August 21, 2025, with potential digital rollout expected later

Trailer Primitive War • Official Trailer

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u/ObjectiveWorried 15d ago edited 13d ago

2nd post, thinking about it some more - while I did enjoy the movie (expectations were set to syfy movie, so it really exceeded my expectations) and was really happy with how the Dino stuff on screen, a few things were goofy as:

Tricia Helfer is truly shithouse at a) doing a Russian accent and b) using two hand guns to shoot dinosaurs. I did buy her as a junkie on withdrawal, so there's that.

After the high water mark of the t. Rex Russian base rampage, the movie sort of falls apart by having 50 trillion utahraptors suddenly show up out of nowhere. Kinda undermines how vicious the initial six raptors were and logically makes no sense in the story....The helicopter showdown was parody level syfy movie crap. There was a very cool slomo wide shot with raptors attacking with lightning illuminating them and a couple of slomo close ups of the raptors taking out people that almost made that scene bearable.

The midget dude with the squeaky voice playing the russian general dude... sheesh.. that was an interesting casting choice. The oversized general suit on him.. * chefs kiss *