2018 · sci-fi · action · horror
The Jurassic Games
Directed by Ryan Bellgardt1h 26m2018
In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.
Our read: The Jurassic Games (2018) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
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