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Saturday, 1 August 2020

The Last Dinosaur (1977)

In a perfect world, the only living thing that people who hunt for 'sport' would be allowed to shoot are each other. But life isn't like that, and more often than not you'll find a rich person at the head of it. Such is the case with The Last Dino, a US/Japanese co-production between Rankin/Bass and Eiji Tsuburaya's FX studio, Tsuburaya Productions. The pairing produced an English language adventure film in a Lost World setting with kaijū-like dinosaurs (i.e. men in suits). To that location goes the "world's richest man," Masten Thrust (Richard Boone), under the guise of research, but in reality he wants a T-Rex head for his parlour wall. The T-Rex, however, has other ideas.
With very few sympathetic characters, there's little reason to feel sorry for the team when things go wrong. And the mixed message that surfaces, which seems to justify Thrust's murderous tendencies, doesn't help matters.

2 behavioural footprints out of 5

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