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Jurassic Park: Prime Survival was the first Jurassic Park fan film featuring convincing dinosaurs. The film was directed by Jack De La Mare.

Cast[]

  • Elliott Crossan - Elliot
  • Charlie Patch - Adam
  • Liam Inder - James
  • Chris Bentley - Crash

Dinosaurs on-screen[]

Criticism[]

Reviews for the film were mixed. 180 people gave the film a "thumbs up" while 100 gave it a "thumbs down." This gave the film a 65% rating. Negative reviews constantly clashed with the positive ones. The perspective from the majority of the film's positive viewers was "the acting was decent, and the dinosaurs looked cool," which many negative people heavily criticized the film for its acting and special effects. Notably, none of the people appearing in the movie were experienced actors nor professional special effects editors.

The CGI dinosaurs on-screen are, through the opinion of the majority, very decent. They are not nearly as realistic as in the Jurassic Park films. However, they manage to look more realistic in other dinosaur movies like Aztec Rex, 100 Million BC or The Land That Time Forgot.

It is clear that the cast lacked the acting skills to make the film look convincing. The video description says "please respect that we were young when we made this film and it was our first real movie project. It was a scattered production, however I like to think of Prime Survival as a massive learning curve which it has indeed been."

Inaccuracies[]

Some things in the film are different from the movies.

  • The Compsognathus have purple stirpes.
  • The Velociraptors look as big as the dilophosaurs.
  • The brachiosaurs look smaller.
  • The male Velociraptors are based off the raptors in Jurassic Park III but lack the quills on their heads.

Novel allusions[]

Some things in the film are based off the novel.

  • The Carnotaurus that appear look like they have chameleon-like skin.

Goofs[]

  • At 20:01, you can see some passers-by walking along a distant trail.
  • At 18:39, Elliot steps away from the camera, revealing a park bench in the background.
  • The image shown on the computer screen at 31:39 is clearly the main page of the JP Toys website.
  • From the start, the characters don't have any idea whatsoever about the fact that there were dinosaurs brought back from extinction, but somehow act as if they knew about it all along due to one of them mentioning how Nick Van Owen attempted to take photographs of the animals back in 1997.

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