For a movie with such an interesting subject, this one unfortunately doesn’t make the grade.

…the biggest letdown is the wafer-thin plot and some silly dialogues marring an otherwise decent story.
Partly based on the BBC’s 1999 TV documentary mini-series bearing the same name, the only thing that works best for this film is the successful melding of CGI dinosaurs in live-action landscape settings.

Makarand Deshpande’s kooky cop character is genuinely funny, but corny lines aside, one of Jackpot’s few redeeming factors here is that it moves along quickly.

The film has graphic violence and perversion, but there is no take-away. It leaves you trying to nail down what the point to this remake really was.

A promising plot like this could have offered you a full course, yet what you’re served is diet fare at best.

The only thought that this film might provoke is to make you wonder what Sandler and gang were thinking when they made this.

By and large, grossly underwhelming for a movie that could have delivered so much more.

All said and done however, while there is nothing disagreeable about this movie, there’s nothing very remarkable about it either.

Films are conceived with an idea. In this case, it should probably have been left as one because its execution leaves much to be desired.

There are menacing moments and the editing is taut but this stays in cliche territory; it’s nothing you haven’t seen before. The film suffers from a lack of ambition. After Earth aims for interstellar overdrive but barely manages to take off.