Dino Crisis
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Billy Cruder
Based on the Capcom video game
DINO CRISIS SERIES
Cast:
Karen Gillan .... Regina
Daniel Kaluuya .... Rick
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau .... Gail
Stephen Lang .... Dr. Edward Kirk
Jack O'Connell .... Tom
Taylor Handley .... Cooper
Plot: The Secret Operation Raid Team (SORT) has sent an agent, Tom (Jack O'Connell), to investigate a research facility on Ibis Island. During the recon mission, he learns that Dr. Edward Kirk (Stephen Lang), a world-renowned scientist who was reported dead three years ago, is leading a secret weapons project within the facility. SORT sends four agents: Regina (Karen Gillan), an intelligence agent and weapons expert; Gail (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau), team leader; Rick (Daniel Kaluuya), computer expert and hacker; and Cooper (Taylor Handley), communications expert, to acquire Kirk and return him to custody. The team arrives on the island under cover of darkness, dropping in via parachute. Cooper is blown off course and lands in the jungle away from the others. Lost in the dark, he is chased down by a Tyrannosaurus rex and eaten. The other three agents, unaware of his death, proceed with the mission.
Once inside the base, the agents discover the eviscerated and partially devoured corpses of security personnel and scientists. After splitting up to restore power to the facility, Gail goes missing. Whilst searching for him, Regina is confronted by a Velociraptor. Re-uniting with Rick, the two determine it was the dinosaurs that caused the bloodbath at the base. Although their mission to recover Dr. Kirk still stands, it is now more important to signal for a rescue. Regina sets out to activate the main antenna to contact their airlift. On her way, she is attacked by another Velociraptor and is rescued by Gail, who then leaves to continue searching for Dr. Kirk. After restoring communications, Regina heads back to the control room and they receive a signal on their communicators. Believing it might be Cooper or Tom in trouble, Rick wants to investigate. Gail shoots down the idea, wanting to follow up on a closed-circuit television sighting that might have been Kirk.
They come across Tom,badly injured and near death. Rick takes him to the medical room, however a Velociraptor attacks them, but Tom sacrifices himself to kill it and save Rick. Later, Regina and the team manage to locate Kirk and apprehend him. As they are preparing to leave via helicopter, the T. rex returns and destroys the helicopter, forcing them to flee back into the base while Kirk manages to escape. Regina and Rick flee into the facility and locate keys to a watercraft, but find a vortex in the way of getting to it. Rick speculates this is the spacetime distortion that brought the dinosaurs back. The two split up to find an alternate route off the island, and Regina ends up being held at gunpoint by Dr. Kirk. He is about to kill her when the gun is shot out of his hand by Gail, and they arrest him again.
Kirk reveals that the dinosaurs were brought to their time by an experiment he was running using his Third Energy technology. A rift in space was created and a pocket of the island from their time was exchanged with the same from the past, bringing dinosaurs back into their time. Kirk then tells them that if the reactors are set to overload, the energy coming from them and the vortex should cancel each other out if they come into contact. After Regina gets the stabilizer and initializer and uses them to overload the reactors, the energy shakes the base, causing a vent to fall on Gail allowing Kirk to get free again. The team heads towards the waterway to escape the blast, but Gail says they still need to capture the doctor. He starts to hobble away on his gun to go after Kirk, and orders Regina and Rick to leave without him if he does not return in thirty minutes. Regina is given the choice to either go after Dr. Kirk with Gail. Gail reveals that the whole mission was a front and the U.S. government did not want Kirk, but instead wanted the Third Energy to use in warfare. A T. Rex appears, and the surviving extraction agents must fight it to escape. After killing the dinosaur, Regina, Rick and Gail escape the island via a watercraft, but Dr. Kirk has disappeared.
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Billy Cruder
Based on the Capcom video game
DINO CRISIS SERIES
Cast:
Karen Gillan .... Regina
Daniel Kaluuya .... Rick
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau .... Gail
Stephen Lang .... Dr. Edward Kirk
Jack O'Connell .... Tom
Taylor Handley .... Cooper
Plot: The Secret Operation Raid Team (SORT) has sent an agent, Tom (Jack O'Connell), to investigate a research facility on Ibis Island. During the recon mission, he learns that Dr. Edward Kirk (Stephen Lang), a world-renowned scientist who was reported dead three years ago, is leading a secret weapons project within the facility. SORT sends four agents: Regina (Karen Gillan), an intelligence agent and weapons expert; Gail (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau), team leader; Rick (Daniel Kaluuya), computer expert and hacker; and Cooper (Taylor Handley), communications expert, to acquire Kirk and return him to custody. The team arrives on the island under cover of darkness, dropping in via parachute. Cooper is blown off course and lands in the jungle away from the others. Lost in the dark, he is chased down by a Tyrannosaurus rex and eaten. The other three agents, unaware of his death, proceed with the mission.
Once inside the base, the agents discover the eviscerated and partially devoured corpses of security personnel and scientists. After splitting up to restore power to the facility, Gail goes missing. Whilst searching for him, Regina is confronted by a Velociraptor. Re-uniting with Rick, the two determine it was the dinosaurs that caused the bloodbath at the base. Although their mission to recover Dr. Kirk still stands, it is now more important to signal for a rescue. Regina sets out to activate the main antenna to contact their airlift. On her way, she is attacked by another Velociraptor and is rescued by Gail, who then leaves to continue searching for Dr. Kirk. After restoring communications, Regina heads back to the control room and they receive a signal on their communicators. Believing it might be Cooper or Tom in trouble, Rick wants to investigate. Gail shoots down the idea, wanting to follow up on a closed-circuit television sighting that might have been Kirk.
They come across Tom,badly injured and near death. Rick takes him to the medical room, however a Velociraptor attacks them, but Tom sacrifices himself to kill it and save Rick. Later, Regina and the team manage to locate Kirk and apprehend him. As they are preparing to leave via helicopter, the T. rex returns and destroys the helicopter, forcing them to flee back into the base while Kirk manages to escape. Regina and Rick flee into the facility and locate keys to a watercraft, but find a vortex in the way of getting to it. Rick speculates this is the spacetime distortion that brought the dinosaurs back. The two split up to find an alternate route off the island, and Regina ends up being held at gunpoint by Dr. Kirk. He is about to kill her when the gun is shot out of his hand by Gail, and they arrest him again.
Kirk reveals that the dinosaurs were brought to their time by an experiment he was running using his Third Energy technology. A rift in space was created and a pocket of the island from their time was exchanged with the same from the past, bringing dinosaurs back into their time. Kirk then tells them that if the reactors are set to overload, the energy coming from them and the vortex should cancel each other out if they come into contact. After Regina gets the stabilizer and initializer and uses them to overload the reactors, the energy shakes the base, causing a vent to fall on Gail allowing Kirk to get free again. The team heads towards the waterway to escape the blast, but Gail says they still need to capture the doctor. He starts to hobble away on his gun to go after Kirk, and orders Regina and Rick to leave without him if he does not return in thirty minutes. Regina is given the choice to either go after Dr. Kirk with Gail. Gail reveals that the whole mission was a front and the U.S. government did not want Kirk, but instead wanted the Third Energy to use in warfare. A T. Rex appears, and the surviving extraction agents must fight it to escape. After killing the dinosaur, Regina, Rick and Gail escape the island via a watercraft, but Dr. Kirk has disappeared.
BOX OFFICE
Budget: $99,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $76,139,537
Foreign Box Office: $238,727,392
Total Profit: $56,796,380
Domestic Box Office: $76,139,537
Foreign Box Office: $238,727,392
Total Profit: $56,796,380
REVIEWS
"This routine video-game spinoff borrows heavily from James Cameron action flicks and the Jurassic Park films but doesn't do much else." - Michael Wilmington, Rolling Stone
"Despite the cast's pedigree, all of the characters in this film are stock, one-note cliches that have been done to death. Karen Gillan is an immensely watchable actress, but the tough female lead has a real "been there, done that" quality." - Stephen Ridley, Boston Globe
"An exciting, uneven thriller that uses great special effects to pit dinosaurs against soldiers. This movie should not have been very watchable given the source material, but director Matt Reeves uses every trick up his sleeve to keep this movie churning at a quick, entertaining pace." - Paul Onkean, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and some language
Filming Locations:
Potsdam, Germany
Potsdam, Germany