Michael O'Keefe Naval commando Hacket(Lorenzo Lamas)leads a small team on a remote island in the South China Sea on a mission to hunt down a band of international terrorists. Not only is the terrorist mastermind Azir(Steven Bauer)on the loose; two other situations become desperately important. A volcano is threatening to erupt and more life threatening is the horde of hungry dinosaur-like creatures that over populate the island. What is left of Hacket's men must gather their wits and strength just to get off of the island.Obviously the budget didn't allow for decent special effects, let alone more than a mediocre script. The lack of believable dialogue goes hand in hand with the acting. Other players include: Hayley DuMond, Michael Cory Davis, Peter Jason and Atanas Srebrev.

swedzin What do we have here? The title is pretty attractive… but only if you are dumb, or just eccentric, movie fan… the incredibly bad movie that makes your head hurt like hell.Now, a group of navy seals are following a dangerous terrorist named Azir and the hostage girl that needs rescue. But… this would be just another shallow action/rescue film without dinosaurs… Did I say dinosaurs? Yep, I did. The island, somewhere, somewhere… in the south China Sea… we don't know is it unknown, uncharted, or whatever… a perfect place for action… oh let's add some dinosaur, wait wait… with the bad CGI… and there you have it, a shallow, dumb film with dumb story, bad characters, lousy camera… so, the dinosaurs came out from underground, mating and hatching… and nobody, I mean nobody checked it out… and all other things as well… Lorenzo Lamas is Hacket, a leader of navy seal team. I expected from him a good old martial arts scenes, but no, he did the role because he can act? Well, he is not a very good actor, but if you are taking a low budget martial arts star, better put in some fights in the film, because with this performance, we got just a dumb soldier who commands other soldiers. Steven Bauer? Well, no surprises here, this guy's career has been washed up since 80s, he appeared in too much low budget films, or in too many tiny roles in some better known films… nah… he is washed up… other actors did a silly performances, especially Hristo Shopov (Quinn) . What the hell is wrong with this guy? That was one of the worst performances I have ever seen. He talks in these husky, badass tones that makes you want to laugh until you s**t yourself… We also have Peter Jason here… well, no worries there, he already also did a bunch of low budget films, and he is a good actor, but, this film is one of the lowest in his career.Skip this film, and get yourself some other abomination. Not to mention a sequel called Planet Raptor (2007), which is even worse… hell even Carnosaur trilogy is better than this… Don't waste your time with this.

TheLittleSongbird As with most SyFy movies, I wasn't really expecting much, as while a few of their movies are tolerable a lot of them range from bad to bottom-of-the-barrel quality. But I wasn't actually expecting Raptor Island to be this bad, not their very worst but it is down there. The acting is pretty much non-descript, I couldn't remember any of the performances after watching, that's how bland and awful they were. They aren't helped by stereotypical, annoying characters, a lifeless, humourless and tense-less script and a story that is not just dull and ridiculous but one that you can guess exactly where it was going. Aside from the dull scenery and choppy editing, it was the effects that single-handedly ruined Raptor Island, crude, artificial and lacking completely lacking in menace they are some of the worst effects I've ever seen. Overall, laughable acting, bland acting, a ridiculous story, annoying characters and embarrassing dialogue made Raptor Island an absolute joke of a movie. 1/10 Bethany Cox

angela3511 This is one cheesy movie. Now, normally I'm a big fan of cheesy sci-fi movie of the weeks. They make me feel so much better about my life. For example, you're having a bad day. Watch a cheesy sci-fi movie, like this one, and then ask yourself (SPOILER ALERTS): are you trapped on an active volcanic island? With a crazed, murderous terrorist who wants to kill you so he can sell enriched plutonium to other terrorists? Oh yeah, and does that island happen to be populated by hungry raptors? No? Then your day does not suck as much as the characters in this movie.The plot line in this movie has tons of plot holes. Apparently there's a volcanic island that no one, except the terrorists, know about. And no one, not even the terrorists, know that there are genetically mutated raptors living on this island. In a world where Google Earth can tell me when I need to clean out my gutters or when Angelina Jolie is having a bad hair day, can we honestly believe that no insomniac geek hasn't yet noticed the RAPTORS running around on this island? The special effects are also not at all special. So you have an AK-47 and four raptors 50 feet from you, yet you can fire 50+ rounds and only hit a few trees? Boy, you are a really sucky SEAL if that's true. And the bullets must have been made by Willy Wonka- in his everlasting gobstopper factory. They can fire all their weapons seemingly for minutes without ever running out of bullets. Um, yeah, not so much in real life. Realism isn't a strong point for most sci-fi low budget movies, but the people who wrote/ directed this movie were even farther away from reality than normal.So overall, it's a not terrible way to while away a few hours; just don't expect any slick CGI effects or anything. But if you want to see dinosaurs eating people, rent "Jurassic Park" and watch Newman get munched on while he's taking a potty break instead.