When I first saw it, I was really angry that it was so bad. It wasn’t until years later that I learned that it wasn’t just sloppy or unprofessional, but that the film fell victim to the most common saw-off of money by a rogue studio. It was planned as a film for 80 million, and spent on it was less than 10 million. Special effects were done on a tiny surcharge, which was paid by investors after the thief who robbed them went to the bottom along with the investments. Yeah, it turns out that's not just us. And this situation actually explains a lot. But that doesn't make it any easier for the viewer.
The film is insignificant, there is nothing in it that could induce to put the rating above one. The visual is so scary that the film even has a low FPS. The drowned mannequin is a crash test dummy. Crushed butterfly cut out of paper! Crush the real one for the movie and shoot it, and the man in front of the camera like a sticker her off the boot. In general, the butterfly turned out to be funny - everyone read the classic story, everyone perfectly understands that the uncle according to the script is supposed to crush it, everyone is waiting for it - and the character honestly works out his meager role, he maniacally hunts for this butterfly, aims at it from their first meeting ... It's just a circus.
And if the disgusting graphics can still be explained by money, then there is nothing to explain the miserable scenario. He barely even pulls on a series of passing series from the 90s type "Stargate". Some waves of time in the form of a tsunami, meaningless schemes with “you can not jump through the circles of time, but if you really want, you can”, killing the same dinosaur every time. Where are the other teams of hunters on the same bridge? Maybe their new trips are canceled? So why did he meet the last team at the end?
As for the story itself, it is the wildest stupid, naive and childish, like almost all the stories of the time. We are going to hunt dinosaurs, of course, it will immediately be a Tyrannosaurus, the author did not know anyone else! The butterfly was crushed – everything, kaput, the world has changed, and the fact that the bridge was built for several kilometers in the Cretaceous period – this should have no effect at all. I am amazed at the old-fashioned fiction, it is so wretched, constantly pretending, that it warns us all about something, but does it with the seriousness of a kindergarten morning.