Taking a road trip through the desert, a woman and her friend trying to make an appointment in the city are stranded by an accident near a supposedly abandoned ghost town where they find a genetically-engineered dinosaur is running loose and must try to outsmart it and get away alive.
Overall, this one turned out to be quite fun for the most part. One of the better features here is the somewhat enjoyable setup that allows them to spend time in the eerie abandoned town. Featuring the roadside accident in the middle of the desert while out on their trip, this part offers a fine initial factor to get them stranded and explore the town. These here are generally eerie and chilling, as their eerieness of being alone in the desert, the fading light, and inability to recognize anyone around them in the creepy location by themselves offer up a great start to this one. With that setup in place, the film's quite enjoyable with a fun series of dinosaur attacks. After the first attack on the worker and the first escape scenes where it tries to take out the others around the town, it all leads perfectly into the fantastic series of cat-and-mouse chases throughout the night as the action picks up nicely. The series of escapes, near-misses, and trap attempts that go alongside the suspense of the creature chasing them throughout the town and the ingenuity of managing to get out of the situation is great fun, and with the incredible effects-work on the creature gives this a lot to like. There isn't much to hold this back, and it all comes in the final half with this one doing a complete turn-around from the kind of film it had been before. After giving the escape and reveal of what's going on, the utterly bizarre twist here revolving around the stand-up comedy routine and resulting dream here is completely ridiculous and feels completely removed from the type of content that was on display before. It's not interesting or exciting, just illogical and nonsensical as well as quite idiotic, and along with the lack of gore at all generates the few flaws on display.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.
