Review of The Eden Formula (2006) by Jason D — 08 Dec 2008

The Eden Formula is a very poor, poor man's Die Hard, mixed with an even poorer man's Jurassic Park as terrorists (lead by the deliciously mad Tony Todd who hams up his bad guy role perfectly) take over a warehouse that's posing as a bio-genetics lab where the ultimate formulas have been used to create a giant and very, very hungry T-Rex.

The lead suits for this formula are Jeff Fahey (smart, lead guy who also happens to have military ops training) and Dee Wallace (who pretty much runs around screaming the whole time). It's fun to see these three legends doing work, regardless of the silly story and cockamamie direction from another legend (sorta) John Carl Buechler (Troll, Friday the 13th 7, etc).

Like I said, it's great to see these 3 folks playing decently-sized roles that are longer than 5 minutes. They all make up for the rest of the dreadful cast. Oh yeah, throughout the film, there is a T-Rex (sometimes large animatronic, other times hand puppet) that goes around and eats a shitload of people, adding to the moderately gory film.

Yeah, when people aren't getting eaten, they are getting getting it right smack in the head with bullets or knives. Definitely low budget film, but surprisingly entertaining...in a VERY guilty pleasure sort of way.