100 Million BC Information

100 Million BC (released as Jurassic Commando in France) is a 2008 direct-to-DVD action film by film studio The Asylum, continuing the urban myth of the Philadelphia Experiment.

Plot

The film centers on a group of Navy SEALs, led by American Dr. Frank Reno (Michael Gross), who once worked on the Philadelphia Experiment. The film begins in 2008, when Reno has purportedly perfected time travel technology. The SEALs use it to travel backwards to the year 70,000,000 BC (despite the movie's title) of the Cretaceous Period, in order to rescue a previous, 1949 expedition led by Reno's brother Erik (Christopher Atkins).

Reno's team arrives in Gondwana at a point in time which is six years after the 1949 team arrived, to find only a few survivors. The SEAL team is ill-equipped for the dangers of this prehistoric period, and is decimated by dinosaurs and poisonous plant life.

Having accomplished their mission, remnants of the two teams merge into one and return to the present, but in the process the time machine malfunctions, allowing a fully-grown, , Carcharodontosaurus to travel to the present and wreak havoc in downtown Los Angeles. Reno stays behind, ostensibly to close the portal, but instead transports himself to the year 1950 after being mortally wounded by the dinosaur. Apparently he tried to leap through the portal as it closed, but was sent to 1950 instead of 2008.

In the present, survivors of the team run through the streets of LA, barely evading the rampaging prehistoric beast. Meanwhile in 1950, the wounded Dr. Reno arrives and meets up with the younger version of himself. The old Reno teaches the young Dr. Reno (Dustin Harnish) how to correctly use the time-travel technology before dying. Young Dr. Reno assembles a strike team of Korean War-era troops and leads them through the portal to 2008, where they attempt to rescue the remainder of the original team from the rampaging dinosaur.

Young Reno then has to find a means of luring the creature back into the time machine and returning it to its own time, before it takes the life of his brother from him once more. Finally the dinosaur is banished back to its time where the trip fuses it with a mountain, killing it. Frank opens a portal to 1950 for everyone to return home through. Frank and one of the rescued team members plan to start a relationship, but as someone needs to stay behind to close the portal, Frank does, his lover staying with him. The two plan to catch up with the group's old selves.

Cast

• Michael Gross - Dr. Frank Reno
• Christopher Atkins - Erik Reno
• Greg Evigan - LCDR Ellis Dorn
• Stephen Blackehart - Lt. Robert Peet
• Geoff Mead - CPO Lopes
• Wendy Carter - Betty
• Marie Westbrook - Ruth
• Dean Kreyling - Chief "Bud" Stark
• Phil Burke - Stubbs
• Nick McCallum - Burke
• Aaron Stigger - Manriquez
• Daniel Ponsky - Jones
• James Viera - Przyzicki
• Dustin Harnish - Young Frank Reno
• Prince Pheenix Wade - Myrick

See also

• Journey to the Center of the Earth - Another film by The Asylum also featuring contact between humans and dinosaurs, and also starring Greg Evigan.
• The Land That Time Forgot - Another Asylum film with dinosaurs and time-displacement, which also features Stephen Blackehart.

Reception

Critical response

Popcorn Pictures described 100 Million BC as 'a shockingly bad film let down by everything: the shoddy acting, the ridiculous script and the abominable special effects.'