Raptor Island

Infobox Film
name = Raptor Island


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caption = "Raptor Island" DVD cover
director = Stanley Isaacs
producer =
writer = Stanley Isaacs
Dean Widenmann
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starring = Lorenzo Lamas
Steven Bauer
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released = 2004
runtime = 89 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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preceded_by =
followed_by = Planet Raptor
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imdb_id = 0401742

"Raptor Island" is a Sci Fi original movie about an island in the South China Sea. The film debuted on the Sci Fi Channel in 2004. A team of Seals chases a group of terrorists onto the island after destroying a weapons cache and rescuing a special agent held hostage. While tracking the terrorists, mutated dinosaurs appear and the mission changes into simple survival.

After losing several men to vicious raptors and killing some of the terrorists, the Seals manage to rescue the special agent captured by Azir, the terrorists' leader. The agent, Jamie, and the remaining Seals discover a crash site of a Chinese aircraft. Around the site are broken containers that originally contained nuclear waste, which raises the question, why was the Chinese government hauling American nuclear waste? It is deduced that this caused the local animals to mutate to near-perfect dinosaurs. The dinosaurs kill all the terrorists except Azir, who murders a Seal and steal his armour and machine gun. After encountering more mutant raptors, the three remaining Seals and Jamie find refuge in a cave, which turns out to be the nest of the dinosaurs. In the end, Azir is eaten by a mutated "Carnotaurus" and the entire island blows up as a result of volcanic activities. In the end of the film, three raptors escape, swimming after the helicopter.

A sequel was released titled "Planet Raptor: Raptor Island 2".

External links

*http://www.scifi.com/raptorisland/
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401742/
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460912/
* [http://www.popcornpictures.co.uk/rfilms/raptorisland.shtml Popcorn Pictures Review]