Poseidon Rex
At this stage, we are all familiar with the expectations for these films characterized by low budgets and monster creatures. We look forward to the terrible CGI grand designs, a plethora of trite phrases in the scripts, bad acting, and total illogical scenarios. It is all part of their very popularity; the ‘it’s so awful that it is funny’ style. Sadly, Mark L. Lester’s (Commando, Firestarter) Poseidon Rex does not commend itself to even such a goal. It is nothing but a dull feature of the string of similar films that are becoming less and less amusing.
In this movie, an aquatic T-Rex called Poseidon Rex starts terrorizing hordes of civilians on an island near Belize. Over the landscape of mayhem is treasure hunter and con man Jackson Slate (Brian Krause) who is a wanted man, marine biologist Sarah (Annie McDaniels) on vacation with her husband Rod (Steven Helmkamp), Jane (Candice Nunes) and diving instructor Henry (Berne Velasquez) who’s still out on business.
As expected from the low-grade copy paste work of films like Jurassic Park or Alien, the action is tight: exaggeration gets carried away with background and plot continuity issues that are a bit laughable. But like many movies of the same genre the story is definitely flawed. The show blends well into the larger picture that resonates with the whole cringe-level of the piece.
This movie also does not possess the ironic humor which is present in the last great film of the genre, Sharknado. McDaniels makes a terrible marine biologist Sarah dull for no reason as if she was reading cue cards in her dreams. It’s true that the actors tried to imply a great deal into their work, but in reality, the film was meant to follow these stereotypical roles with little advancement into the future of cinema. There are times where her character is needed alongside Jackson’s, where Krause portrays the hunter role quite nicely, and the combination of the two actors makes for a tedious viewing experience over being entertaining.
There are plenty of cheesy and cliché action sequences in the film so it is no surprise that Poseidon Rex does not do anything interesting with the kills which however was the driving force behind the audience watching the movie in the first place. There are people who would gladly sit through terrible dialogues and a pathetic love story just to see some really crazy dinosaurs but these expectations are shattered. Most people would view the monster fighting frail characters in a love story or monstrosity but such hope is stifled as well.
There is however a different problem which is that, in a very fundamental sense, the movie is poorly made. Sure, what financial backing and resources are available to a film like this have a degree of expectation, character motivation is basic and does not cost anything but an appreciation of storytelling techniques, and Poseidon Rex does not manage that either. Moods swing suddenly, people don’t even remember their own objectives and goals, and they do not evolve at all as individuals. This terrible monster mash barely has a story line but even that would have afforded some structure.
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