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.
This ain't no walk in the park.
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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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Jeremy Piven
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Anthony Ingruber
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Con Nhen 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…
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!
Primitive War is a 2025 action and horror movie from Australia directed by Luke Sparke, starring Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer and Nick Wechsler. It was released on August 21, 2025. The running time is 2 h 15 min, in English. Audiences rate it 6.5/10 from 587 votes — mixed to positive.
“This ain't no walk in the park.”
Primitive War was released on August 21, 2025.
Primitive War was directed by Luke Sparke.
The main cast includes Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler, Jeremy Piven and Anthony Ingruber.
Primitive War runs 2 h 15 min.
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It holds an audience score of 6.5/10 from 587 ratings, so fans of action and horror titles are its best audience. Read member reviews below or add your own.
🏆 Awards: 3 wins total
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