| 100 Million BC | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Griff Furst |
| Produced by | David Michael Latt David Rimawi Paul Bales |
| Written by | Paul Bales |
| Starring | Michael Gross Christopher Atkins Greg Evigan Stephen Blackehart Geoff Mead Dayne Smith |
| Music by | Ralph Rieckermann |
| Cinematography | Alexander Yellen |
| Editing by | Mark Atkins |
| Distributed by | The Asylum |
| Release date(s) | July 29, 2008 |
| Running time | 85 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
100 Million BC (released as Jurassic Commando in France) is a 2008 direct-to-DVD action film by The Asylum.
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The film centers on a group of Navy SEALs, led by American Dr. Frank Reno (Michael Gross), who once worked on the Philadelphia Experiment. The film begins in 2008, when Reno has purportedly perfected time travel technology. The SEALs use it to travel backwards to the year 70,000,000 BC (despite the movie's title) of the Cretaceous Period, in order to rescue a previous, 1949 expedition led by Reno's brother Erik (Christopher Atkins).
Reno's team arrives in Gondwana at a point in time which is six years after the 1949 team arrived, to find only a few survivors. The SEAL team is ill-equipped for the dangers of this prehistoric period, and is decimated by dinosaurs and poisonous plant life.
Having accomplished their mission, remnants of the two teams merge into one and return to the present, but in the process the time machine malfunctions, allowing a fully-grown, 60-foot-long (18 m), 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) Carcharodontosaurus to travel to the present and wreak havoc in downtown Los Angeles. Reno stays behind, ostensibly to close the portal, but instead transports himself to the year 1950 after being mortally wounded by the dinosaur. Apparently he tried to leap through the portal as it closed, but was sent to 1950 instead of 2008.
In the present, survivors of the team run through the streets of LA, barely evading the rampaging prehistoric beast. Meanwhile in 1950, the wounded Dr. Reno arrives and meets up with the younger version of himself. The old Reno teaches the young Dr. Reno (Dustin Harnish) how to correctly use the time-travel technology before dying. Young Dr. Reno assembles a strike team of Korean War-era troops and leads them through the portal to 2008, where they attempt to rescue the remainder of the original team from the rampaging dinosaur.
Young Reno then has to find a means of luring the creature back into the time machine and returning it to its own time, before it takes the life of his brother from him once more. Finally the dinosaur is banished back to its time where the trip fuses it with a mountain, killing it. Frank opens a portal to 1950 for everyone to return home through. Frank and one of the rescued team members plan to start a relationship, but as someone needs to stay behind to close the portal, Erik does, his lover staying with him. The two plan to catch up with the group's old selves.