100 Million BC (2008 Video) User Reviews

100 million BC - the BC stands for bitchin' crap.

[froberts73 · 1/10 · 27 January 2011]

I, too, got sucked into buying this at Wal-Mart because of the cover art - the misleading cover art.

I watched the other flick, "Journey To the Center Of the Earth" first and thought it was putrid. Well, it was, but "100 Million BC" was even (new word) putrider. I can only conclude that everyone involved during the couple of days it took to put this s--t together were drunk.

As for Michael Gross, well, oh how the mighty have fallen. As for everyone else, may they fall off the face of the earth. The jokers who were advertised as "an elite military team" were scary. In spite of the pseudo-intellectual ranting they were thoroughly unconvincing as their characters and as actors.

Well, maybe, it was played for laughs, but it was neither humorous or even mildly interesting. Being a sadist I sat through the whole thing with the feeling that it had to get better.

It got worse. CRAP with a capital K. If you spot this in the Wal-Mart bin take it out and, as a public service, stomp on the damn thing so no one else will be taken in.

One hundred million zeroes for "100 Million BC."

Just...appualing

[k-786 · 1/10 · 14 April 2008]

For a 21st century film, you gotta applause to how awful appalling the effects were. The dinosaurs were in bloody 2D god dammit! Not even sculptures were made to add some form of modern looks to these creatures but looked like a simple animation which was done using anim8or. This is by far the worst film I have seen in a long time. Not to forget the acting. No sympathy was shown when the soilders saw one of their men get taken away by these "reptiles", no thought was gone into safety of the soldiers when they were in a contested zone. This film was clearly done by a run-down production team and I really recommend you all not to waste a single penny or time for this film.

Hope this helped =) My Rating: 1/10

Machine guns, dinosaurs, and bad acting.

[shawn-421 · 1/10 · 3 May 2008]

I was expecting a big, over-the-top action movie, and boy was I disappointed. This is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. At first I thought, OK, the writing is kinda bad. And then, OK, the acting is actually pretty horrible as well. And then there was the cinematography. Some of the shots are so ridiculous and posed, that I found myself laughing at the stupidity.

As the plot progressed, I found myself questioning whether or not this was a serious movie, or some kind of spoof. Everything about it was just so bad. But if it was a spoof, then the humor was completely missing.

No, it turned out that this was an actual attempt at a sci-fi action flick. Do not waste your time with this movie.

Don't waste time and/or money on this...

[fhentschke · 8 April 2008]

heyho!

im usually into these kinds of films, but this was really, really bad... extremely poor writing (navy base standard vehicle is a Hummer H2? WTF? and so on...)

poor sound FX (guns sound like paintball guns)...

poor movie overall...

well, i understand budget issues and all the likes, but this actually looked like a movie from the 90's....ok, the early 90's... I've seen some computer games A FEW YEARS ago, which had better/ more compelling stories and SFX than this movie..go and watch Primeval...much more fun and much more sophisticated... This move would be something for, lets say a 11:30 pm timeslot on German public TV....yes..it is that bad...

please don't waste your time! Felix

Another amazingly bad 'mockbuster' rip-off from The Asylum.

[poolandrews · 2/10 · 10 August 2008]

100 Million BC starts in Los Angeles where a crack team of Navy Seals are briefed by Lieutenant Dorn (Greg Evigan) & scientist Frank Reno (Michael Gross) about a top secret mission to travel back 70 million years into the past using the time machine created by Reno to rescue the last group of soldiers & scientists who used the time machine & were stranded in the past. In no time at all the team lead by Reno are back in the Cretaceous period & have found the few surviving team members from the previous expedition. They head back to the time portal to return home but things go wrong & a huge Tyranosaurus Rex is propelled forward to 2008 & goes on a destructive rampage throughout Los Angeles...

Directed by Griff Furst who was probably so embarrassed by the finished product he hid under the pseudonym of Louie Myman (don't forget this is the guy who actually had the nerve to put his real name on the opening credits of I Am Omega (2007)) & is yet another 'mockbuster' from The Asylum, you know the score they take a recent Hollywood blockbuster or two & totally & unashamedly rip it off. In the case of 100 Million BC the title is obviously ripped-off from 10,000 BC (2008) although the story is more of a rip-off of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) with the whole Tyranosaurus Rex on a rampage through a modern contemporary US city, there's a touch of Stargate (1994) in the way the time travel device looks & works & probably more by accident than design the time travel angle of the film feels like the Doctor Who serial Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974) where various dinosaurs start appearing in modern day London & if that wasn't enough the plot bears more than a passing resemblance to the British telly series Primeval (2007) which also features time travelling dinosaurs wrecking havoc in moder times. There is not one single original idea or moment in 100 Million BC & that I can guarantee you. This film is so bad in so many ways it's untrue, it's just so badly made & written throughout it's impossible to know where to start. The plot has so many holes it's incredible, like people jumping out of helicopters 30 feet in the air without any safety ropes & literally landing on their feet unhurt, like the idea that someone has to stay behind to close the time portal or it will expand & destroy everything but if that's the case who prevented the time portal in the past destroying everything when the Tyranosaurus Rex ate Reno? Since Reno was dead who turned the time portal off? The whole concept sucks, only Reno knows how to operate the time portal thing? For God's sake it only has three buttons on it, how hard can it be? Erik seems to operate it OK at the end though doesn't he? What if anything actually happened to Reno? The rest of the team would have been stuck, right? I could probably go forever about all the plot holes, bad writing & the general lack of sense & logic but I can't be bothered. On the positive side at the least the film moves along at a decent pace but since it's awful you won't care & it's often unintentionally funny.

Before I watched 100 Million BC the worst dinosaur effects I had ever seen were in Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs which are literally just plastic toys & while the awful CGI in 100 Million BC aren't as bad as those they are still awful. I would say they are the second worst dinosaur effects I have ever seen, some of 3D models & the animation is absolutely dire beyond belief. It's no exaggeration to say that most regular home PC's could produce better CGI effects & your average computer game has better looking more realistic graphics & animation. The other effects are terrible too, there is one scene set inside a tunnel in which a car is seen travelling backwards in plain sight & it just looks bizarre, there are bags of continuity errors & despite spending six years 70 million years in the past those people still have nice haircuts & are remarkably well groomed! That's another thing, the film states that the team travel to 70 million years BC so why is the film called 100 Million BC? The editing is awful with a lot of scenes so choppy & badly shot it's sometimes hard to understand what's happening.

Largely shot in California this has rock bottom production values & is just badly made throughout, I don't wish to sound unkind because I don't believe anyone deliberately sets out to make a bad film but 100 Million BC is simply terrible in all regards. The acting is awful too, a few of the girls are good looking I suppose but that's the best thing that can be said.

100 Million BC is a rip-off of several much better films & TV show's, watch the film Jurassic Park or the telly series Primeval or the Doctor Who story Invasion of the Dinosaurs instead as they are all infinitely more enjoyable than this awful film & aren't that different.

The only thing of any worth here is Marie Westbrook's smoking curves!

[Munin75 · 2/10 · 31 March 2012]

...and the unintentional comedy.

I watched 100 Million BC because I had nothing better to do so I thought I could give this dinosaur film a try, and the story seemed fairly intriguing, although unoriginal. Since it's a TV movie, my expectations were pretty low to begin with. Turns out the film was even worse than expected.

The CGI was appalling but that's fairly understandable for a low budget production. What really got me was the poor acting, and the terrible, terrible editing and sound. The directing was so bad that I think even I could have done a better job although I have no training in movie making. Also, my advice to the actors is to find another profession. How can they possibly be that bad? If the cast was random people picked up in the street, statistically they couldn't have been this poor. 100 Million BC was probably filmed in a few days and grossly sold off to cable channels that needed fillers.

I'm still giving it a 2/10 because the beginning of the film was mildly intriguing, and because Marie Westbrook (yes, I actually looked her up) is a treat for the eyes, the only one in the entire movie by the way.

Dark dinosaur

[ctomvelu1 · 2/10 · 27 March 2011]

A gathering of old-timers, including Michael Gross, Chris Atkins and Greg Evigan, is the only reason I can think of for watching this badly made science fiction video. A group of soldiers led by a scientist is led back in time to rescue a group of scientists that was sent back to the same time period in the 1940s, via the Philadelphia Experiment (where's Michael Pare when we need him?). They get chased and some of them are eaten by dinosaurs, and the survivors end up inadvertently bringing along a large carnivore on their return. Much of the film is dark and hard to make out, and the carnivore loose in the big city is almost impossible to follow. The whole thing seems endless. Bad bad bad.

Philadelphia To Los Angeles By Way Of The Cretaceous Period

[bkoganbing · 2/10 · 7 February 2009]

If anyone is expecting a remake of the Hal Roach classic with Victor Mature and Carole Landis or even the other version with Raquel Welch pass this Science Fiction channel special right on by. In fact passing it by on general principles might be a good idea as well.

100 Million BC starts in Philadelphia of all places with that famous and mysterious experiment that the city gave its name to in which a lot of navy personnel lost their lives and left no remains behind to tell a story.

Years later one of the survivors of the experiment, now grown a lot older and played by Michael Gross has been tinkering with the failed technology and believes what happened was these men and women had gone back in time, back in a lot of time it turns out to when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Of the fifty navy personnel that went back in time only a few have survived as Gross and another navy team come to rescue them. Among the survivors is Christopher Atkins now way beyond his Blue Lagoon boy toy days.

Gross brings a few back, Atkins included through a time portal, but also crashing through the portal is a mean and hungry tyrannosaurus rex. He's not liking his new neighborhood which is 21st century Los Angeles.

Maybe one day we'll actually find out what the real Philadelphia Experiment was all about. I can't believe it was this however. The science leaves a lot to be desired, the human actors look like they just collected their paychecks and went through the motions. When the computer animated T-Rex gives the best performance in the film, you know you've got a Thanksgiving feast on your hands.

Is one out of ten really the lowest score I can give?

[mrwolfie · 1/10 · 14 April 2008]

Quite possibly the worst movie I've seen in 45 years of watching movies. It's not even so bad that it crosses the line into humour.

Just plain pathetic. On every level. The only redeeming factor is that the worst actor in it gets eaten early on (by something masquerading as a dinosaur that is a disturbing cross between CGI written in DOS and a sock puppet). However, exactly who the worst actor is might have you guessing for a goodly portion of the "movie". Trust me, you do not want to waste 90 minutes of your life trying to figure out which one of the cast is stinking up the screen more.

The FX are not so much "special" as "papier-mâché". The camera work is distinctly amateurish and the plot, such as it is, has at least one WWII personnel carrier driven right through it. Really, yes it does!

Avoid at all costs.

Good story, very bad movie

[jroefs · 3/10 · 7 April 2008]

The CGI of this thing, Mr. Lucas did a better job back in 1977 when he created Star Wars. Not to mention the camera work. As awful as I have ever seen. Think Godzilla - the one from the fifties. Might be a budget thing.

The story however, I liked very much. I must admit I'm a sucker for this kind of s.f. (the kind that touches the current-day world). It's about a secret government project gone very bad. In WO II the US government experimented with a technology that could potentially make objects invisible. In stead, they stumbled on a way to time travel. On the first away mission, things went terribly wrong and the team got stranded about 70 million years ago. The scientist responsible for the project takes this failure personally and for the next 60 years he plans on getting them back. One day he gets his chance and joins a rescue team back into the prehistoric age. When they return however, they bring back more than they hoped for.

If you can see past the bad acting, bad camera work and very VERY bad CGI, you could well like this movie. I didn't and the 3/10 points it got from me are purely for the story.

what was that?

[mmeeg · 2/10 · 11 April 2008]

mistakes rollover this non-movie movie...

it tells about a trip to 100 m b.c. but after that lots of practical mistakes ...

Direction is too bad , and the worst is visual effects , i mean in between frames shots to prehistoric animals , beside it does look like a 1960's dinosaurs movie , guys wake up we are in the 21 century .....

I mean at least be like Jurassic park Worst sound effects , story and actions are lame ...

I wasted 90 minutes in this nonsense and i hope it is never on the big screen

Incredible film that changed my life and everyone's around me

[HobbesFly · 10/10 · 26 April 2008]

This film is the epitome of what a film should be. Although skeptical at first, I have to admit that the quality of the acting, animation, etc. completely changed my mind. I laughed at times and I cried at times. Christopher Atkins will surely be up for the academy awards and I think best actor will be captured by him. The action in the film, done mostly through $15.99 airsoft guns and $45 worth of Windows Movie Maker add-ins, was exhilarating. The film was incredibly moving and gave me a whole new appreciation for life. I am really looking forward to the sequel: 101 Million BC.

It is a movie-buff must-have film. The DVD even has extras with the entire crew and cast (all 14 people) and commentary from the writer, Paul Gales. They even go into the extensive scientific research needed to recreate the time period. EVERYONE needs to see this movie!!!!

Good

[Knollbang · 6/10 · 23 June 2008]

For a free movie on a Sunday night it was pretty good. Remember the B-Movies of the 80's - well you're not going to pay 14 bucks a ticket to see a movie like this in the 2000's, so the Sci-Fi channel is good enough to produce and show it for us, and I'm grateful for that.

Lets face it, any time travel movie has more holes in the plot than a cheese grater, and this was no exception.

I've read people bashing the special effects.....they are no worse or better than most of these types movies, namely the "dinosaur" running around. But there were some good ones as well, like when the "transport" goes horribly wrong. Explosions, crushed cars, not too bad.

Greg Evigan (alias BJ without the Bear) is a great actor and he barely rolled out of bed for this role....seriously. I thought he was going to be the main actor. The "Family Ties" dad played a good scientist, I'd like too see him in a lot more roles like that, even on the big screen, I didn't have a problem with him as well.

Reno - the real main character, at least since his introduction 1/2 way through the movie was OK. I knew him from somewhere and it bugged me till I checked IMDb to see he was the kid from Blue Lagoon. I was glad to see he was still acting.

I think the "writing" could have been better if anything........you had at least 3 experienced "good" actors, yet it was tough to get anything going.

I say, watch it one lazy day when nothing else is happening and you'll enjoy it.

LOL oh dear!

[bgyoung · 1/10 · 8 April 2008]

Defiantly up there with the worst films I've ever seen.

Basically they send a team of seals back in time 70 millions years, to rescue a group of folks from the fifties that got trapped there. However instead of arming them to the hilt they decide to arm them with a bunch of pea shooters. The team then come across a bunch of dino's that can dodge bullets, become invisible at will and run at what looks like 1000 mph.

Most of the team are eaten, but just when its looks like its all over the dudes from the fifties jump out and whip the bullet dodging, semi invisible 1000 mph dino's with a few sharpened sticks.

They then come back to the present and just so happen to leave the door open for what looks like a REX but is three times the size, to come through. In any event this REX like thing, is also bullet proof, can smash armoured cars with its head and run about 40-50. What would we do in such a situation? Well i'd prob suggest sending a few tanks to greet the chap, knowing fine well one shell would rip a REX in half. However the people in this film had a much better idea, have the REX chase a group of joggers from 1950 around.

Total crap!

[Madd_Mann · 1/10 · 11 April 2008]

Don't waste your time.

Unless of course you like poorly-acted crap, featuring characters you couldn't possibly care about, annoying music, and the filmmakers' inability to agree on just what the "dinosaurs" in this mess should be constructed of. As a result they gave us big rubber "crocs" (at least I THINK it was a croc), stop-motion animated "raptors", and the dreaded poorly-rendered CGI T-rex.

Ugh! What garbage.

A pity you can't award "0" stars. I LOVE dinosaurs, and gave this movie 1 star based entirely on that.

Awful Movie

[lainy1982 · 1/10 · 29 May 2008]

Please don't waste anytime watching this movie, trust me it is time badly spent. For a film of this day and age, the special effects were terrible, the Simpsons movie had better effects, and the acting was also better in the Simpsons as well. Poorly written and very predictable, I was hugely disappointed with the "movie" and it's overall story. The creators should watch Jurassic Park then get back to us with something a little less wooden. This film must have been made on a budget of about £10 because the so called dinosaurs were drawn and the guy playing Reno must have done his part for free as it was so bad. It's a straight to bin movie for me

Silly fun romp with familiar faces and hot guys

[ApolloBoy109 · 4/10 · 2 September 2008]

The feeder bands of hurricane Gustav released a torrent rain on southwest Florida over the weekend, so it was a b-grade movie weekend!! Starting off with my new favorite bad b-grader 100 Million BC. The faces, both new and old, kept my interest.

Chris Atkins of "I got nekked in Blue Lagoon" fame now all grown up to a handsome middle aged dude. Doug McClure anyone? Come on those AI 1970s rich releases, "The Land that Time forget", "At the Earth's Core" et. al.

Also starring Michael Gross (Termors) and a bunch of hottie army boys who were nothing more than dino fodder. Main stud Greg Evigan bites it way too early (And gee only one army guy lives but at least he was the cute one).

The skinny: Goofy time travel tale loosely tied in with the Philadelphia Experiment storyline. Prof has to sent his baby brother back in time to avert disaster and it takes 50 years to get his brother back and set things right.

I loved it. It was silly and fun.

Two things however.

1. When Gross goes back in time to save his brother Atkins (from the 50s) His brother and the rest of the castaways behave in a very modern 21st century way . . nothing like folks from the 1950s, especially for a scientist and his nerdy brethren. I must ask: was that Atkin's wife cause he was all over her . . . her character.

2. The worst dino effects ever. When the Rex would roar I busted a gut laughing. His mouth would shoot open like a pop-up book. I love it!!!

Who cares, it rained, I watched, I laughed!

I've seen worse...

[TheLittleSongbird · 2/10 · 28 June 2011]

But in all honesty, is it really saying that much? I watched this out of curiosity as I make it a habit of watching these Syfy movies(most of which are really bad) when there is nothing else on. I have seen worse movies than 100 Million BC and there have been worse from SyFy, however this aside that doesn't stop it from being terrible. The production values are cheap and shot so darkly sometimes you can hardly make out what was going on and the effects look phony and the sound is both murky and lacking in authenticity. The music is canned, which can mean tacky and annoying, the case here, the story is badly paced often being dull and there are no thrills, suspense or tense build ups to savour and the dialogue is toe-curlingly bad. The acting not helped by some stock and clichéd characters is awful, Michael Gross tries but Chris Atkins is wooden and painful to watch. All in all, I've seen worse, but this was not a good movie at all. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Oh no! Not the big one!

[mark.waltz · 5/10 · 24 January 2021]

Most Asylum films really are pretty bad so this one is a step above the other half dozen that I've seen. At least there's no teens around this time to muck everything up, just mixed up science that can take people back to the prehistoric times and reverse it, this time bringing a T-Rex back with them. The science part looks cheesy but when they do get back to the times before civilization, there are some pretty good special effects involving various breeds of dinosaurs including a vegetarian brontosaurus, some smaller meat eaters, a pterodactyl and of course the biggest meat eater of them all. This one also has the benefits of Michael Gross and Christopher Atkins, with the star of "The Blue Lagoon" looking quite the same as he did 28 years before.

Atkins and his crew have been stuck in this prehistoric land for six years, having gone there in 1949. So Gross, who finds his brother there, decides to change places with him, but by some mix-up, the T-Rex gets blitzed 100 million years ahead. This is full of action but rather stock characters, although it is amusing that the crew that has been there since 1949 doesn't see how society has changed. I guess if I was trying to avoid a big meat eater, I wouldn't notice that either.

Another one of the amusing thrilling moments comes when one of the soldiers is spat at by some sort of big plant, falls into the water and encounters something that we do not see that obviously gets a little snack. This isn't your normal milkweed because it appears to blind him. So at least some imagination went into this, and the results aren't as hideous as a good majority of this straight to video product.

The Asylum's worst

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 18 March 2018]

100 MILLION BC is one of the very worst films I've seen The Asylum put their name to. It's as bad as that SHERLOCK HOLMES film they made with monsters and the like. The story has a badly-acting group of marines heading back to prehistoric times to catch some dinosaurs. They manage to bring one back to the present, but it escapes and goes on a rampage. The whole film is an odyssey is terrible performances mixed with equally terrible CGI dinosaur effects which are even worse than the ones in that BBC series WALKING WITH DINOSAURS. The slow pace means that the film just goes on and on with no end in sight until most sane viewers will be tearing their hair out at the inanity of it all.

I felt embarrassed for the Actors and Animators while watching this movie.

[woodhousebuttler · 2/10 · 24 September 2011]

The Animations/special effects were very bad, I would say just lazy more so than an issue of budget. Very low quality and unfinished effects. There is even one Green scene shot where your view is behind the cast and they are looking at a Dinosaur running from right to left. You can see the editors did not even match up where the actors are looking to the creature added in that they are supposed to be looking at, Thats Just lazy.

As for the acting, Have you ever been to a show and seen someone try to perform but do very badly and you feel embarrassed just watching it? That is how I felt during most of the character scenes during this movie, bad acting, the actors come off awkward trying to pull off the scenes.

Often the actor is supposed to be happy or excited but they do not pull it off, Its like when someone does a fake smile and it is obvious it is a fake smile because the rest of the face does not match the emotion that the mouth is making? This is true in this film for most emotions from most of the actors, They either do not pull it off or over do it.

The bad acting and lazy CGI work keep pulling you out of the story, You can not get into the movie because you keep thinking wow that looks so fake, or wow, that was bad acting.

Ready For Reuse

[tedg · 21 April 2008]

Watching this made me wonder. When a movie isn't good enough to keep me in the movie, my mind wanders to matters about the experience. I am free to explore the world surrounding the movie. Regular readers ask me why I bother. I seem to watch a lot of movies that I report as a waste of time.

Well, they are, and this one is. But this one made me think that we are not far away from the time that ordinary people can make inexpensive movies with effects, and have them be good. No, this one isn't good, and the effects aren't either. But what they've tried with apparently zero talent is pretty ambitious — and its impressive how far they got.

For me, what this indicates is that soon we will have films on the web that are pretty decent — perhaps as decent as much of what is in theaters and on TeeVee. Not you-tube cleverness, but long form compositions, which despite its other weaknesses, this actually pulls off. This all became possible because so much of the cinematic vocabulary is set, and we do use clichés and things much like them. This one dabbles in a few, but thankfully avoids a common one:

There are two women who are sent back in time, and who end up battle a dino. They aren't babes. They aren't stereotypical in any way. They are attractive in this context, despite being as bad at acting as the men. Because they are attractive simply because they are allowed to be human.

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

an experience like no other

[brownlieava · 10/10 · 19 April 2021]

Immensely talent filled film. Shocking sfx so unreal! It was so out of the ordinary that we got to watch floating dinosaurs, unbelievable acting, a love scene between a 60 and 20 year old, and action like no other. Ah to spend twenty minutes watching a zoom panning of a puppet dinosaur stepping on a flaming car as if it were a can of soda. Not to mention that every single car was exactly alike from the helicopter's point of view down to every headlight! A whole new perspective indeed. This was especially wonderful when learning that this was not a 1960 movie but a 2008 movie. How advanced ! And you'd think that the fact that each character's costume design- lack of clothing- and fake tattoos would be a distraction from the levitating dinosaurs- but no! It was absolutely splendid. So in short I am thankful that I wasted 90 minutes on t h i s.

Cool movie

[leader-16 · 7/10 · 23 June 2008]

There are some good things about this movie, and there are some misleading things about this movie. First the good stuff, the action part of the movie was good, also good music score. Acting was good, and the story line was well done. Some misleading things were the relationships between the people that saved sarge from the raptor, I just didn't understand that, and the person from WW11. A funny thing is that when they transport back to 1950 at the end, doesn't that sound remind you of a Pokeball?

I give this film a 7/10

Good action movie

Buy it if your into this kind of stuff

This is not a total wast of time...But its close

[cay-9 · 2/10 · 6 April 2008]

If you take a pretty god director like Griff Furst and put it in to a blender with 2 million dollars and a promise to promote the upcoming actor Christopher Atkins you pretty much got the picture of this production.

The theme is something like a mixture of Jurazic Park and "The Gate". But in this case it really don't make it. Soldiers from a experiment gone bad are sent back in time and back to the present comes with them a TIRANIUS SOURIUS REX. Could ya believe it? This is a good movie to watch if your on a hangover and wants to fall asleep without loosing the contents of the movie. Like a Rambo nr5.

It's not a bad picture but I would pay more for the popcorn than I would do fore the ticket.