Primitive War (2025)
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A reconnaissance unit in a 1968 Vietnam jungle valley must survive an encounter with de-extinct dinosaurs.
The story
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, a Green Beret platoon is attacked and killed in a remote jungle valley by unknown predators while on a classified mission. Their commander, Colonel Jericho, calls in Vulture Squad, a LRRP team consisting of team leader Sergeant First Class Ryan Baker, second-in-command Sergeant Xavier Wise, rookie radio operator Leon Verne, former Air Cavalry soldiers Eli Taylor and Charlie Miller, and snipers Gerald Keyes and Logan Stovall, to find the missing Green Berets. After the Vultures are airdropped into the valley, they begin their search for the Green Berets, finding birdlike tracks and huge feathers from an unknown animal.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, a Green Beret platoon is attacked and killed in a remote jungle valley by unknown predators while on a classified mission. Their commander, Colonel Jericho, calls in Vulture Squad, a LRRP team to find the missing men. Upon entering the valley, the team finds evidence of large creatures and is ambushed by a pack of Deinonychus. They encounter a Soviet team, the Dogs of War, and a Soviet paleontologist, Sofia Wagner. Sofia reveals that a Soviet experiment with a particle collider created wormholes, bringing dinosaurs into the present. The Vultures and the Soviets eventually unite to face the dinosaurs. After a series of deadly encounters with Tyrannosaurus rex and other predators, the Vultures must decide whether to destroy the collider. They ultimately destroy it to prevent the dinosaurs from spreading, while the US military arrives to find the site destroyed, and the dinosaurs begin migrating out of the valley.
- First release year
- 2025
- Runtime (minutes)
- 133
- Production countries
- Australia
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Luke Sparke
- Writers
- Luke Sparke · writer
- Cast and characters
- Ryan Kwanten · Ryan Baker; Tricia Helfer; Nick Wechsler; Jeremy Piven
- Genres
- science fiction; horror
- Themes
- survival; military conflict; science gone wrong
- Tone and mood
- gritty; horror; tense
- Premise and plot tags
- Vietnam War; dinosaurs; time travel; action
- Source material / true-story basis
- 2017 novel of the same name by Ethan Pettus
- Reception
- The film has been viewed by critics as a B-movie counterpart to Jurassic World Rebirth.
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