Raptor Island

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Raptor Island
Directed by	Stanley Isaacs
Written by	Stanley Isaacs Dean Widenmann
Starring	Lorenzo Lamas Steven Bauer
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	89 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Raptor Island is a Sci Fi original movie about an island in the South China Sea. The film debuted on the Sci Fi Channel in 2004. A team of Marines chases a group of terrorists onto the island after destroying a weapons cache and rescuing a special agent held hostage. While tracking the terrorists, mutated dinosaurs appear and the mission changes into simple survival.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After losing several men to vicious raptors and killing some of the terrorists, the Marines manage to rescue the special agent captured by Azir, the terrorists' leader. The agent, Jamie, and the remaining Marines discover a crash site of a Chinese aircraft. Around the site are broken containers that originally contained nuclear waste, which raises the question, why was the Chinese government hauling American nuclear waste? It is deduced that this caused the local animals to mutate to near-perfect dinosaurs. The dinosaurs kill all the terrorists except Azir, who murders a marine and steal his armour and machine gun. After encountering more mutant raptors, the three remaining Marines and Jamie find refuge in a cave, which turns out to be the nest of the dinosaurs. In the end, Azir is eaten by a mutated Tyrannosaurus rex and the entire island blows up as a result of volcanic activities.