With the remaster of the original game coming out on steam I decided to re-watch this, last time I did was years ago and it holds up fairly well. The story is pretty basic but at least it keeps it to the basics, Native American gets stuck in a land with dinosaurs. Maybe they added a bit too much backstory to his origin but it doesn't hinder the story while it may not be the next classic if you are a fan of the concept you'll like it. I remember this coming out of nowhere with basically no advertising and unrelated with the Turok game coming out at the time which had nothing to do with classic Turok. Sadly we never saw a sequel to this but I would've loved to see more.
With Jurassic World hitting it big and other dinosaur properties trying to be revived because of it, it'd be cool if Turok was given another chance. Luckily Disney and their generic version is long dead and out of control of the franchise. But who knows, Dark Horse tried reviving the property a few years ago trying to stick more to the original formula and while neat it didn't get anyone's attention, it was sort of a revival without any big announcement either. I being a big fan found out by chance as I did with the movie. Dynamite comics also tried a reboot last year which lasted for a year but apparently they won't continue it. It wasn't very good from what I heard and also slipped under everyone's radar including mine. It also tried to modernize the original concept. That might be the problem, the original concept while it lasted 28 years in comics doesn't seem to get a lot of people's attention and it's the revival version made famous by Valiant comics and Acclaim of modern technology with dinosaurs that people remember more even if it didn't last as long.
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