Age of Dinosaurs - Terror in LA

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Movie
German title Age of Dinosaurs - Terror in LA
Original title Age of Dinosaurs
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Joseph J. Lawson
script Hank Woon
production David Michael Latt
music Chris Ridenhour
camera Richard J. Vialet
cut Rob Pallatina
occupation

Age of Dinosaurs - Terror in LA is an American Monster - Horror of for low-budget films known film company The Asylum from the year 2013 . Director Joseph J. Lawson already made the film Nazi Sky - The Return of Evil! For Asylum . and was responsible for the visual effects for many Asylum productions. Lead actor Treat Williams was best known for his role in Hair , which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination .

action

The biotechnology -Unternehmen Geneti-Sharp , known for its medical advances in the healing of burn victims is known, experimented with the DNA of dinosaurs to this breed again and marketing of all kinds of events. Justin, CEO of Geneti-Sharp , invites prospects and potential buyers to the company's headquarters in Los Angeles to demonstrate the results of the experiments. Indeed, several species of carnivorous dinosaurs have succeeded in breeding, which are presented to the public under great safety precautions. Among the guests are the fireman Gabe Jacobs and his daughter Jade, who leaves the hall bored at the beginning of the performance.

During the presentation, the dinosaurs manage to overcome the safety barriers; the guests in the audience are attacked and panic breaks out. Jade can escape into the basement and hide in a closet. The building is locked to prevent the dinosaurs from breaking out into the city. The alerted police and SWAT units initially believe in a joke, but can be convinced of the real danger by taking a cell phone photo. Gabe succeeds in freeing his daughter and escaping with her. The electricity in the building is turned off, which means that the numerous breeding facilities in which more dinosaurs are raised are destroyed and dozens more specimens are released. These can finally break through the doors of the building, massacre the police units present and penetrate downtown Los Angeles .

In the city center, they storm a shopping center into which Gabe and Jade have also fled. There is bloody fighting between humans and dinosaurs on the streets. Helicopters are attacked by pterosaurs . When the building threatens to collapse, Jade manages to escape to the roof. Justin, who reaches the mall by helicopter, tries to save her father from the house with her. Gabe and Jade manage to escape to the roof, Justin is killed by a dinosaur. When attempting to reach the rescue helicopter, however, Jade slips and falls into the depths. A pteranodon seizes them and drags them onto the Hollywood sign . Gabe follows him with the helicopter, which is attacked by the pterosaur and comes to rest on the lettering. Finally, Gabe succeeds in distracting the dinosaur from Jade and making it fall into the depths with the helicopter.

reception

“Also a business model: For a good ten years, the US company“ The Asylum ”has been recreating blockbusters from A for“ Avatar ”to Z for“ World War Z ”under similar-sounding titles (“ Zombie Invasion War ”) as cheaply produced mockbusters. (...) More to pity than to fear. "

- cinema.de

“Asylum lets the dinosaurs off the chain, hires comparatively well-known actors, and gives the animated creatures to celebrate the day a multiple of the playing time that Asylum normally allows expensive morphs. Treat Williams makes a good face to predictable game, Ronny Cox as an insane rag hands in the farewell early. Quasi the finale of the first "Jurassic Park" in the extended version, in-house clearly above average. "

- kino.de

Others

The idea of ​​breeding dinosaurs from preserved DNA has already been discussed in several films. The most successful film among them was Jurassic Park from 1993.

One scene shows a bottle with a label that says Dodgson 06/09/93 . It is a reference to Jurassic Park : Dodgson was the name of the man who hired technician Dennis Nedry in the film to steal the dinosaur embryos; 06/09/93 is the US spelling for June 9, 1993, when Jurassic Park opened in theaters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Age of Dinosaurs - Terror in LA (2013). cinema.de, accessed on April 23, 2014 .
  2. ^ Age of Dinosaurs. kino.de, accessed on April 23, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Trashecke: Age of Dinosaurs - Terror in LA rezessition.de, accessed on April 23, 2014 .