Stop the press: dinosaurs are still scary

Rating: 4/10 (1 February 2016)

It's a 1960s B-movie with 2015 special effects. The basic plot premise is that a giant, genetically-engineered dinosaur goes postal and starts eating everybody. A small band of plucky folks have to save the day. Well, whoopie-doo.
What salvages the film is that the dinosaurs are amazingly well-executed, and very frightening. There's a real sense of dread, even though we know that in a movie of this type the heroes ... well that would be a spoiler, I guess, although I'm sure everybody knew how the movie would end after the first ten minutes.
All in all, a thoroughly one-dimensional movie -- long on dramatic effects, short on everything else. But enjoyable enough, so long as you're not expecting great art.