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on her list of the five worst dinosaur films ever made. Regarding the premise of dinosaurs against the military, Black wrote that the filmmakers "somehow managed to make it boring". Critic Mike Mayo wrote in 2013: "Even though the setting is your basic empty-warehouse industrial park, the whole film
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said about the production: "A lot of it made me laugh. It looked like there was a guy in a dinosaur costume running across the room. So it was a challenge to get to the real reality part of it, but ultimately it was a blast". The cast includes actor Rick Dean, who had previously played a different
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was critical of the film and stated that it was lacking in "originality, taste, logic" and realism, but wrote about the dinosaurs: "Seen in quick cuts or by the light of flickering bulbs, the
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major diseases. A huge shipment of meat is on the dock, so the three remaining soldiers hunt in this area, encountering a unit of
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