Primitive War review — 'An exploitation movie with teeth'

DC Comics once published a series called The War That Time Forgot , notable for weak writing and terrific art — and, most of all, for great cover images of World War II GIs battling dinosaurs. Primitive War is set during the Vietnam War but otherwise offers the same genre mash-up and goes all out to deliver the gruesome dino-action which recent Jurassic World films have shied away from.

The plot, from a novel by Ethan Pettus, is basic. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, an unhinged Soviet has tested a ‘collider’ deemed too dangerous to play with in Russia… and dinosaurs have charged through a time warp. A US platoon are sent to investigate the area and find themselves chased, chewed and stomped on by prehistoric monsters when they’re not being shot at or stabbed by the regular enemy. Ry