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This film somehow won the Science Fiction Film Award for Special Effects. For an independent film at that time the special effects aren't really terrible, but they can't compare to today's standards. It isn't the worst movie in the world, but I think anyone watching it will agree that it doesn't have the most clever plot. A spaceship and its crew crash-lands on a strange planet. It's never explained what the crew was doing before it crashed. As far as acting goes, the cast is mediocre at best, sometimes hokey, but not completely unwatchable. The women look great. Sadly, the best looking one dies five minutes into the film. The film shows the survivors walking around too much and taking way too many rest breaks. A lot of those scenes could have been cut out, but that would have made this 85 minute movie probably less than an hour. It's a sci-fi adventure, but certainly not action-packed. I would think a movie with this title should have had more dinosaurs in it. If this sounds like a middle-of-the-road review, that's because it is. If you're into the sci-fi genre, this movie is interesting to watch maybe once or twice. The writing is below average, but the ideas strung together are some pretty romantic concepts reminiscent of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers style of sci-fi stories. It has space explorers, gorgeous women, and dinosaurs all in one. The ending of this film has a neat twist, though. It is neither apocalyptic or wholly optimistic. You'll have to see it to know what I mean because I don't want to spoil it for you. And I do agree with the last person who commented on this film: the soundtrack is terrible.