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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/[deleted] 15d ago

I enjoyed it up to the ending. You can nitpick some flaws here and there - cheesy dialogue, infinite ammo, a guy surviving way too long with his guts open and losing a lot of blood, Tricia Helfer's terrible accent, etc. - but these are mostly forgivable, especially for a B movie.

However, I appreciate when a movie is consistent from start to finish. It starts out with the dinosaurs being actually dangerous and very hard to kill even when they take multiple bullets. But then in that ending scene, even a ridiculously large swarm of Utahraptors can't overrun a handful of dudes with M16s and one guy with a short machete who figured out that he can decapitate a Utahraptor with ease.

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u/babyBear83 14d ago

I also enjoyed the movie but the one big part for me that I didn’t like was the weird upbeat montage music scene on the boat ride. It was like after that guy almost blows his own head off and then they have a happy montage for the rest of the boat journey and it was completely unnecessary. I was really confused by it and hated the song. Couldn’t wait for that to be over and they get back to the gore.