If you like dinosaur skeletons rampaging about, have I got a movie for you.
Stayton University, located in Mills County, Oregon, has purchased land from the town to expand the university and attempt to revitalize the community. The townspeople feel cheated and one Native-American man decides to take matters in his own hands. He breaks into a museum, which apparently has no security at all, and performs a ritual with some artifacts. The skeletal remains of three dinosaurs come to life and are released into the town. "What have I done?" Probably doomed us all.
The destruction and kill scenes are pretty terrible. A leader of a fraternity is "eaten" by the T-Rex, but since it has no skin/throat/stomach, the body simply falls back to the ground. I thought that was pretty funny and if you had a heart, you would think so too.
One of the poorer parts of the movie is when one of the smaller dinosaur skeletons is chasing down the police vehicle. The sheriff lines up his SUV and rams the skeleton, which reforms after being broken apart. The solution is to "run fast". Good thinking.
After several failed attempts to kill the creatures, the solution is to perform another ceremony with the artifacts. Lightning strikes are going to save the day, but when the guy performing the ceremony is injured, the sheriff's crew turn to the local substation to create their own lightning. It's hard to describe, but one of the cables is severed so the circuit cannot be completed to kill the skeleton. The guy who built the lightning contraption holds the ends of the cable together and the switch is thrown. 100,000 volts is sent into the circuit and throws him back a few paces. Not only does it not kill him, the cables are left intact for a second use. That's Hollywood for you.
One of the brighter moments in the movie is when the pterodactyl bones and T-Rex bones reconstruct to form this one colassal super-flying-dinosaur skeleton.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 colassal super-flying-dinosaur skeletons.
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