Skunkyrate
Gripping story with well-crafted characters
Ceticultsot
Beautiful, moving film.
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
TheLittleSongbird
Raptor was atrocious in every single aspect, but unlike many other terrible movies I've seen there was something hilarious in how awful it was. It looks cheap for starters, the dinosaur effects and designs are incredibly artificial and the editing is all over the place. The footage is over-used and clumsily incorporated in the movie also. The script is terrible and largely incoherent, with Corbin Bernson faring the worst of the actors and the story is predictable, doesn't know what tone it wants to be and also manages to be so derivative of Jurassic Park and Carnosaur yet with the none of their thrills that you can swear they're the same movie. The characters are clichéd, annoying and never developed enough, while the direction is wretched, the attack scenes are visually frenzied and despite the high body count largely unexciting and the acting is very poor with Eric Roberts a bland lead and Corbin Bernson struggling with his terrible dialogue. Of course there are some redeeming values to Raptor, it does have some novelty value and it is not dull either. That doesn't stop it from being badly made, written and acted, so all in all I've seen worse but Raptor was atrocious. 1/10 Bethany Cox
biteyourself
This movie reaches an all time low in quality. Most shots not involving the painfully fake raptor or the main characters is a shot taken from the directors previous movies, Carnosaurs 1, 2, and 3. Which only adds to the cheese factor of this movie. Make no mistake, this movie is far from scary, but the violence and bad acting are incredibly funny. Instead of scares, you get gallons of Kool-Aid colored fake blood and cheesy death sequences. As with all other Sci-Fi Channel movies, you should not expect a quality horror movie, but a comedy. I suggest watching with friends, as this always makes the movie more laughable and bearable. Give it a chance, and don't expect even the slightest amount of seriousness,and you'll love it.
erik_ud
I must say that I did expect to see a movie that was a lot worse. It's a cheap exploitation-movie OK, but it could have been a lot worse. Ir read that they used footage from the three Carnosaur-movies, but they did that rather well. Eric Roberts plays his role as a sheriff in a way you would expect in this kind of film, but does a better job than most exploitation-actors. Lorissa McComas is great as the daughter. It would have been better if she'd died a horrific death, because I'm sure she would be great at it. Melissa Braselle was OK as well. The "bad guys", however, were pretty lame.It was a big mistake to let the "evil professor" wear such a silly hat. I mean, if you're going for stereotypes, don't be afraid to pick up the bald German professor again. When people are watching a cheapo flick, it doesn't matter... we *do* want to see what we expect to see. Originality is OK, but only in the butcheries ;-) No, seriously: I enjoyed Raptor. I didn't *love* it. I don't recommend it to people. I'm just glad it wasn't a lot worse.
Phillemos
So I was sick with the flu one Saturday and the silver lining was that SciFi Channel was having a marathon of dinosaur movies that day - the "Carnosaur" trilogy, "Pterodactyl," "Raptor Island." Then I flicked ahead on my cable remote to see which movie SciFi placed in its glamorous, Saturday prime-time slot. Some movie I had never heard of before called "Raptor." I was pretty excited. The movie begins with some teens driving around in a jeep, when they get stalked and killed by a Velociraptor. I was like, "Hmmm, that's odd, that looks almost exactly like a scene in "Carnosaur," except it was in the middle of that movie." Then I sat through some really bad acting and then some guy was suckered into walking into an underground research laboratory where he got eaten by a ferocious T-Rex. Now I'm like, "Wait a second, that was also a scene in "Carnosaur." Then, after I saw some scenes blatantly ripped off from "Carnosaur 2", I figured out just what the hell was going on. So basically, Roger Corman & Co. ripped off scenes from the "Carnosaur" trilogy to use as the action scenes, weaved in a basic "dinosaur-runs-amok" plot, and tried to pass it off as an original movie. Shameful. I don't know who I'm more angry at, Roger Corman or SciFi Channel for trying to pass this off as worthy of the prime-time slot. The only reason why this was worth watching to its conclusion was to pick out the actors/actresses who looked like their counterparts in the "Carnosaur" trilogy and guess which scenes would be lifted next. As much as it pains me, being a dinosaur lover, I have no choice but to give this the lowest possible rating because I feel completely ripped off.
