During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

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Primitive War (2025)

This ain't no walk in the park.

★ 6.5/10 August 21, 2025 135 min

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Director: Luke Sparke  ·  Writer: Luke Sparke

During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

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Director

Luke Sparke Luke Sparke

Cast

Ryan Kwanten Ryan Kwanten Baker Tricia Helfer Tricia Helfer Sofia Nick Wechsler Nick Wechsler Eli Jeremy Piven Jeremy Piven Colonel Jericho Anthony Ingruber Anthony Ingruber Keyes Aaron Glenane Aaron Glenane Logan Carlos Sanson Jr. Carlos Sanson Jr. Leon Albert Mwangi Albert Mwangi Miller Adolphus Waylee Adolphus Waylee Xavier M.J. Kokolis M.J. Kokolis Sergei Ben Corlett Ben Corlett Nikita Ana Thu Nguyen Ana Thu Nguyen Con Nhen

User Reviews (2)

Chandler Danier
Chandler Danier February 1, 2026
★ 7/10

Is the Vietnam war the most fun setting to be an actor? Racism! Murder! One-liners! Also, the Russians are back, baby! I would like to have seen Crowe revisit his accent, perhaps as Tolstoy, but these Russians are good. I really enjoyed the top 40 of this. I was flying high on the equisite blend of terrible and fun within this adventure. All good things must come to an endtimes and the movie struggles to innovate fun over the following 90. Pretty much everything except the baddest Russian come out within the first 40 and after the cold war and now uhhh the new order, Russian baddies are hard to innovate. This also follows the recent trend to paint Russians as Nazis. The Nazis were German, right? I guess Russian nazis make sense as Putin is a guy who doesn't speak English as a first language. The tunnel scene really worked for me. Jumping mini dinosaurs, long chin-cam close-ups topp…

Sejian
Sejian June 25, 2026
★ 7/10

Dare I say, this was more entertaining than that awful Monster Hunter live-action movie, and most of the Jurassic movies. There are, of course, some really stupid moments, like Keyes not remembering that when the little murder turkeys run away, it means a bigger murder turkey is lurking, but hot dayum, the reveal of big murder turkey was gruesomly awesome, and the two giant murder turkeys tearing !@#$ up at the end was just the best a dinosaur lover could ask for. This might just be one of my favorite dinosaur movies!