Review of The Dinosaur Project (2012) by Dan F — 13 Jan 2013

The found footage approach seems like a way to justify missing anything that would be centralised in a standard cinematic narrative, and that idea is exploited to extremes in this poor effort. The poster's cool, the dinosaurs aren't too shabby and the 'new' creatures are pretty interesting, but there's really nothing to see for long.

Trollhunter and to a lesser extent Monsters showed us how to exploit monster movies with found footage (Cloverfield had a notably larger budget so doesn't count), but these guys obviously weren't paying attention.

So we wait for Jurassic Park 4 and Pixar to show us what dinosaurs can do in cinemas, because no one else seems to be able to figure it out.