I saw this film yesterday and was a bit excited when I remembered the name being the same as that of the Ray Bradbury story it's based on, hoping that at least a fairly good interpretation could be made. Boy, was I wrong. I was almost completely aghast at the painfully obvious green screen scenes, most especially early on when Edward Burns and that one girl are facing the camera and walking towards it on a frickin' treadmill! I did like the futuristic city look and some of the car designs and wasn't too surprised to see so many cabs of the same design, either. After all, how many cabs of the model featured in "Taxi Driver" have there ever been in big cities? However, the subway trains were also painfully obvious miniatures. And if this is supposed to be 50 years in the future then why do they still use keyboards on their computers instead of flat panel screens like those we first saw on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"?
Anyway, it's very hard to do a decent time travel story (all of the Star Trek spin-offs all too often fell back on that tired plot device, more often to ridiculous resolutions than not), and it was unbelievable that the company would only take people back to the exact same point of time when the party kills the Allosaurus (I never knew they had twin red crests on their heads; I guess it was to differentiate them from the even more popular T-Rexes) because in reality they'd just keep running into themselves back then, which would then create multiple time lines! Of course, they conveniently ignored that little tidbit till later on when it was more important to the storyline.
The Allosaurus, looking huge and mean and so obviously fake (the Jurassic Parks dinos were far superior!) most likely probably would've just started eating everyone instead of waiting around for them to kill it moments before it would've otherwise died anyway, so there was no tension there for me. Well, tension of waiting for the stupid thing to start eating those idiots. The evolved baboon hybrid characters were interesting in concept but just looked and moved too unrealistically.
This film fails so badly on so many levels that I'm not sure I'd even recommend anyone rent it on DVD, no matter how much extra content may be included, like deleted or restored footage. After all, why waste anymore time watching this drivel than you could help? Bradbury should've had more of a hand during production of this film to make sure that it was more accurate to his short story, like the episode of some sci-fi series (Showtime's The Outer Limits, perhaps?) that I seem to recall doing a much better version of it.
Anyway, it's very hard to do a decent time travel story (all of the Star Trek spin-offs all too often fell back on that tired plot device, more often to ridiculous resolutions than not), and it was unbelievable that the company would only take people back to the exact same point of time when the party kills the Allosaurus (I never knew they had twin red crests on their heads; I guess it was to differentiate them from the even more popular T-Rexes) because in reality they'd just keep running into themselves back then, which would then create multiple time lines! Of course, they conveniently ignored that little tidbit till later on when it was more important to the storyline.
The Allosaurus, looking huge and mean and so obviously fake (the Jurassic Parks dinos were far superior!) most likely probably would've just started eating everyone instead of waiting around for them to kill it moments before it would've otherwise died anyway, so there was no tension there for me. Well, tension of waiting for the stupid thing to start eating those idiots. The evolved baboon hybrid characters were interesting in concept but just looked and moved too unrealistically.
This film fails so badly on so many levels that I'm not sure I'd even recommend anyone rent it on DVD, no matter how much extra content may be included, like deleted or restored footage. After all, why waste anymore time watching this drivel than you could help? Bradbury should've had more of a hand during production of this film to make sure that it was more accurate to his short story, like the episode of some sci-fi series (Showtime's The Outer Limits, perhaps?) that I seem to recall doing a much better version of it.