Nerds That Geek Movie Review: '100 Million BC'

Written by Scott Edwards

Time travel is one of those things that everyone still has questions about, especially when it comes to temporal paradoxes, mainly because we don’t know what this invention would really do to the time line. While it seems like we are still years off of breaking the secret to time travel, you have to question if it is something that we really need? Going back in time to change something major, like taking out Hitler before the Holocaust or stopping the assassination of JFK, there would be major changes to the landscape of our time today. It may be fun and educational to travel through time to witness some events, but when all is said and done, if you change something in the past, it will have some sort of impact on the present day, no matter how small the change really is.

After receiving some very convincing evidence that his time travel team from fifty years ago made a successful jump, Doctor Frank Reno is ready to bring them home. Calling in the finest search and rescue team that the Navy has to offer, Frank shows them that it is possible for time travel to occur. With everyone on the same page, Lieutenant Peet gets his men ready for a jump through the Rainbow device that will take them back into the Cretaceous Period when monsters walked the planet. Making a successful jump with most of the unit, the group finds out that this is a violent time period, and anything can kill you if you are not paying attention. 

Tracking the previous beacon, Frank is convinced that he will be able to find his own team that he lost fifty years ago but getting deeper into the wilderness is proving to be difficult for the team. After a raptor attack cuts the rescue group into half, Frank is shocked to see that his old team comes to the rescue. With nothing but spears, Erik, Ruth, Betty and Bud are able to end the threat for the time being, but the soldiers’ gunfire awakens the Big Red Rex who is very hungry for out of time humans who are in his territory. Being able to escape that threat, Frank lets his team know what has been going on for the fifty plus years they have been missing from, even though it may not be what they want to hear.

After making sure that the cost is clear, the remaining members of the rescue group and the four survivors of the previous time jump make their way back to the beacon to be sent home for a final time. But there is a catch, as Frank comes clean about needing to stay behind to shut the time rift. Allowing Frank to stay behind, the group makes their way back to the present, but they are not the only ones as Big Red Rex makes his way through the rift before it is shut down. Seeing that a dinosaur is wreaking havoc in the city, Erik and his team of survivors need to find an alternative way of stopping the old killing machine since even modern guns seem to have little effect on it. 

This might not be the best dinosaur movie out there, but damn it was pretty entertaining once the giant lizards arrived on the screen. I must admit that even with the hokey CGI that was used, it was still pretty fun to watch the humans meet their delicious fate. The group dynamic is really what drove this movie until the third act made it to the screen, because then, it was nothing but city carnage taking place and a lot of running towards and away from Big Red Rex. With plenty of gunfire, some dinosaurs, silly people problems, fake cave paintings, a reunited love story and plenty of time travel, this is one of those movies that will leave you with a smile on your face. While I think that time travel would be cool to explore at some point, I am pretty sure that it would change the world as we know it, and not necessarily for the better. Happy Viewing.

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