The Dinosaur Project

Right now you can watch The Dinosaur Project in Australia on Foxtel Now, and in the US on Fawesome — and it moves faster than most of the genre's competition. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. 335 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. No filler scenes, no spinning wheels between the action. There is no real reason to keep putting it off — it is right there on Foxtel Now.

The Dinosaur Project arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The Dinosaur Project understands that stakes only matter if you care who is at risk. Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs. Natasha Loring and Matt Kane lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was released in 2012. What separates The Dinosaur Project from disposable action entertainment is character work that survives the explosions. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

The genre has a long history of front-loading its best moments — The Dinosaur Project is not one of those. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. Natasha Loring anchors the chaos with real screen presence. Every set piece here is doing more than one job at once.