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Bad acting, Bad CGI, Bad script.

Don't waste your time.

Absolutely rubbish, I quit mid way cause of worst CGI and worst acting.

Bad plot, bad acting, bad, bad,bad!

And it you have a smart tv it gets worse because everything looks so real time that you can see the horrible visuals.

The movie is slow and I've never seen anyone take so long to realize that a dinosaur is literally next to them. How can you NOT know that a T-Rex is close? Really?

There are serious amounts of cliches and it's just the cheesiest thing I've seen in a long while.

I take it that this was merely an exercise to give practice to new actors, new directors, cinematographers, CGI, et cetera. That's the only explanation I can give.

After missing out on several communication attempts, a woman and her family head out to a farmhouse owned by their reclusive brother to check on what happened to him, only to discover that an experiment has created several living dinosaurs forcing them to find a way to get away from the house alive.

This was quite a fun genre effort. Among the more enjoyable facets to this one is the intriguing and enjoyable setup that manages to play off quite nicely as for getting the group stranded at the house and into danger. As we're given a glimpse of what he's supposedly doing with his research and experiments at the beginning with keeping them locked up and away from the family requiring the rest of them to head up to check on him for his strange disappearance, everything is in order to keep them at the house long enough for the dinosaurs to emerge. With the revelations of what he's doing and how they came to be, the film generates some intriguing aspects to get it started. Once it gets this setup started, the film gets a lot to like with the dinosaur attacks which is the main point of the film. Focused mainly on the Rex getting some fun ambush sequences where it comes out of the wilderness to snap up victims in a messy fashion, these are rather fun while setting up the smaller-scale sequences of the group interacting with the Raptors more frequently in the house. The chasing featured in those scenes is handled well enough to generate some impressive suspense in the race to get away from the creatures and get to safety which is matched rather nicely with the initial arrival of the military to help save them. This mix of ambush sequences and action-packed stalking allows for a nice mix which is quite enjoyable here. That carries over into the final half where there's an enjoyable mix of action and even more enhancements to the story that ties everything together rather nicely. The dinos going through the commandoes which has some highly impressive attacks with the creatures getting some fun screentime, much like the finale out in the surrounding woods that introduces a few rather unexpected elements into the story. These new additions to the story, which flesh out the side-effects of the experiments and what can potentially happen to the dinosaurs in the future, this section of the film gives this a lot to like that manage to hold the film up for the most part. There isn't a whole lot that holds this one down. One of the biggest drawbacks is the seemingly random inclusion of the small military force that's designed to protect them only to end up being two ill-equipped commandoes, an insane leader, and a useless scientist. Based on the information given at that point in time, there's no reason for that squad to be this small in terms of a rescue mission even if we later learn the true reason for their arrival which is even less logical. On top of that, there are the usually expected limitations with the dinos on such a small budget, ranging from some struggles with integration into the environment properly to proportion problems and repeating movements that highlight how unnatural they really are which is to be expected here but doesn't come off as detrimental overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Hatched was a pretty good British dinosaur flick. It was suspenseful enough and had a decent back story. Maybe the premise is a little farfetched to believe that a single individual was able to accomplish what a myriads of scientists could not. In comparison with the Jurassic Park franchise, this had much more superficial explanation for what transpired. It is curious that these actors were cast since I didn't find the teenagers particularly interesting, and I find it hard to believe that any law enforcement person would have the authority to do what he threatened and eventually carried out. Still, there was quite a bit of suspense and the movie proves you don't need a whole lot of dinosaurs to reign terror in a relative small space.

What a load of old tosh! Why was the so called private wearing a bicycle helmet! Terrible acting and very poor story line. The Doctor went from replicating DNA to reproducing dinosaurs...as one would of course. People in the world are suffering so why no bring back t-rex?

The whole thing should really have been watched before releasing and put in the bin... The CGI is not the best and the army chaps are no more army than me! I don't know how much the budget was but it was too much. Its a shame really as it could have been so much better and the acting better. Never mind...Hatched??? More like Hatchet!

Well, I will admit that I wasn't really expecting much from the 2021 movie "Hatched" when I sat down to watch it. Sure, I liked the movie's cover/poster, but it definitely had that 'oh, it's going to be one of those horrible CGI movies' feel to it. But still, I opted to watch it.

And I will say that the movie wasn't actually as bad as I had initially feared it to be. Sure, this wasn't by no means a milestone in cinematic history, but it was better than I had anticipated it.

Granted, the storyline told in the movie made little or no sense at all, and there were just so many plot holes throughout the course of the movie. Not to mention the stupidity of the actions performed by the characters in the movie. So yeah, in terms of a proper script and plot, then "Hatched" was a less than mediocre movie.

Visually then I found "Hatched" to actually be a surprise. The movie definitely had much nicer CGI renderings of the dinosaurs than I had thought it would have. But the CGI could only do so much for a movie that lacked a proper script and storyline.

The acting in the movie was a bit of a mixed bag of nuts so to speak. Some of the performers actually put on adequate performances with whatever little they had to work with, while others put on lukewarm or amateurish performances.

Directors Scott Jeffrey and Rebecca Matthews just didn't really manage to come up with an overwhelmingly interesting movie here. It felt like a "Jurassic Park" movie on a very, very tight budget. But hey, at least it wasn't as bad as the dinosaur movies that is churned out by The Asylum.

Ultimately then "Hatched" is a semi-watchable movie, albeit not an overly interesting or entertaining one. I am rating it a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. This is, however, not a movie that I will be returning to watch for a second time, nor is it one that I will run out and encourage people to rush in to watch.

Mark can't be a boy. I don't get it . Pretty cheesy movie. I thought it was Hatching....wrong movie. I heard the Hatching was a lot better...be it in a different language. The car won't start....really ????

But my god!!!.....The characters were frustrating, just did so many things that made you think...Really?

Like waiting for a long period of time as the dinosaurs got closer and closer so they can eat them. Not doing obvious things like closing doors behind them when being chased by raptors in the house. And nearly EVERY time someone broke into a run they tripped over.

Some of the overreacting was hilarious.

The dinosaurs themselves were convincing enough.

It is so awfully, painfully slow. You can easily doze off between lines of dialog. OK, not that slow, but you get the picture. It is very rare that I don't watch a film to its end. But this is one of those rare films. I had to turn it off and see something with more suspense/action. A photo shoot of someone chewing gum would be more gripping than this film.

Overall, it's not bad. In detail, there are many holes in the story. Therefore, I recommend watching movies with a light heart. I hope it's a movie that can be seen lightly for those who are tired of many things to think about.

If you look forward to it too much, you may be disappointed, so watch it without expectation Then you will be able to see a satisfactory movie. I like the director's style. Both music and directing were good. Don't focus too much.

Obviously, i think i seen this before. Just like that. I can say that all. But Not Bad. I learned that if i gonna bring someone's life, make sure that they never gonna eat me up.

I saw it while I was quarantining at home. It wasn't bad. If it's just a movie that fills my boredom, I've watched it in a hurry, but it was actually quite good, so I recommend it. The directing or story may be boring, but I liked the subject matter.