FILM REVIEW: ​Z-REX: THE JURASSIC DEAD

BY JOE X YOUNG 

A WTF movie.
 
No, ‘WTF’ is not the production company, it’s wtf as in “What the F*** did I just watch!” If you are familiar with my reviews you’ll know I’m a tough crowd, and may by now be thinking “Oh shit, here we go, another hatchet job”, but you’d be wrong. If you’re going to make a low-budget indie flick about a rampant zombie dinosaur then this is absolutely the way to go about doing it.

Is it dreadful? Hell yeah, it has a nonsensical plot, is poorly scripted with cringeworthy dialogue and a guy in a large rubber dinosaur suit yomping around menacingly. It has a stock set of characters including some tech nerds and of course ‘Black Ops Mercs’ who might actually just be gun-happy rednecks, one of whom is an absolute hoot as there’s no effort whatsoever at disguising him being based on Duke Nuke-Em, hell they even called his character ‘Duque’ (Pro bodybuilder and U.S. National Freestyle Wrestling champ Andy Haman), that’s the sort of stuff we’re dealing with here. He’s joined by ‘Cuchilla’ Vasquez (Raquel Pennington - UFC  Fighter), ‘Stick’ (Ruselis Aumeen Perry - American Ninja Warrior) while they attempt to stop the mad Dr Borge from unleashing a chemical apocalypse on the world which will turn every living thing into a zombie . Unfortunately Dr Borge has already reanimated a smaller than average bio-engineered T-Rex which is hard to kill as it’s already dead, hence the title.

Needless to say, Duque and his crew attempt to save the world. Can they defeat the Dino and prevent Dr Borge from destroying life as we know it? You’ll just have to watch it to find out.

As someone familiar with some of the special effects production techniques the film for me was also a ‘spot the CGI’ game, not so much in that I was looking for where it was, as that’s painfully obvious, but more of a ‘which company did they get their stock from’ game. It doesn’t make a difference to the film as it’s all been done on a budget, that much is obvious from the beginning, but the production crew must be commended on giving it an almost cinematic appearance.

It’s barking mad stuff from beginning to end, and has some genuine laugh out loud moments. Oh, and make sure you watch after the credits ;)
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