Raptor (2001)

When three kids in a jeep are slaughtered, Sheriff Jim Tanner calls in animal control officer Barbara Phillips. Phillips wears a confusing outfit with a shirt that is half unbuttoned and has a patch on the arm that seems to be military rather than animal control.  She's not sure what type of animal killed the kids, so they head off to think about what it could have been.

Meanwhile at the old factory across town, Dr. Hyde is berating his employees for letting one of their raptors escape.  Until 12 years ago when there was an incident, Hyde was funded by the US military. Now he's receiving help from Pakistan, for what ends I have no idea. Is the country going to wage war using dinosaurs? Who knows. It's never clear.

Tanner has a rule that no one in the Sheriffs office should ever go on a call without back up. Yet everyone does and it always ends badly.  This leads to Tanner and Phillips being taken prisoner when they go to investigate the factory.  Unfortunately for them, this is also the time that the US military decides to go in and destroy the factory to cover up what Hyde has been doing as they don't want any leaks that reveal they used to fund him. Hilarity ensues. No, no it doesn't.

Actually it's pretty boring overall. When I was looking for into on the movie, I read that footage from other Roger Corman movies was used in this one, which would explain a lot about why this feels so disjointed.

 I wonder how real marines feel when they watch movies like this where marines are called in and they are total dolts.  It must be really frustrating.  Although there is a hilarious scene in which the marines are being given instructions on their mission that are so vague they have no idea what they are seeking.  So we take out the genetically engineered thing that is dangerous? But what is it?