Also known as Jurassic Valley, writer-director Scott Jeffrey's low-budget "mockbuster" quickie feature, as with many others, trades on the name/brand of the late author Michael Crichton and the resurrected-dinosaur blockbusters following in the mighty footsteps of Jurassic Park. The difference, of course, is Jeffrey and his ilk, thanks to CGI now accessible even to low-budgeters, render these knockoffs cheaply for streaming/straight-to-video audiences, not summer Universal theatrical epics.
The sketchy setup here (which has to be repeated a few times, lest viewers understandably are confused) is that a corporation "rolled back evolution" to revive Cretaceous-era dinosaurs to discover human immortality...or something. All that mischief ended when the global war (not shown) erupted in 2030.
Two years later, scientists and roughnecks interred in the company's survival bunker in the British Isles - primordial rural locations in England and Wales - run low on food and medicine (still, the ensemble looks like they've all got a smashingly great fitness club down there with them). A team finally unlocks the door to explore the outside, assuming any escaped dinosaurs might have died or migrated. The dinos haven't.
Examples of poor problem-solving ensue, as velociraptors infiltrate the base (which includes one very pregnant woman), while T.rexes thunder through the landscape outside. Some of the digital-saur f/x hold up well on good-sized screens; some are mediocre; some (the pteranodons) are rather poor. The whole thing amounts to a loose-plotted Jurassic Park fan-fiction, wherein digital dinosaurs are illuminated by flares, by lightning, or chasing a girl clad in nothing but a bath towel (which modestly clings to her, even after death).
Spielbergian-widescreen format cinematography is a plus but dino addicts must be warned that more time goes to UK thespians, who act terrorized and emote glumly—perhaps hoping to be spotted and rescued off to better roles in Disney's new J.R.R. Tolkien fantasies. And who wouldn't?
Though violence/gore and swearing have strictly PG-13 level DNA, the title is not recommended for public libraries.