sci fi channel business model must have something go for it and since it survive for year by broadcasting and sometimes even make these cheapie and careless fantasy rip offs . how wrong can you go with one of the most proved premise of the 20th century represent civilize people strand in uncharted jungle where prehistoric creature and savage tribesman challenge their wit and their ingenuity and their very concept of civilization . lose world answer that question with a bland script and weak acting and lame prop and effect and character dull enough to be animal feed which many of them inevitably wind up as . an airliner crash on the beach near the amazon valley . the survivor almost totally unhurt and at least at first try to find the lost cockpit with it radio but soon encounter giant bug and little dinosaur and a single monster ape . do i already use the term rip off . a mysterious military officer ( boxleitner ) with a pistol and a lunchbox be strangely uninterested in work with the others even though he appear to know much he isn not tell . the best feature and by far and be the presence of several female character and mostly flight attendant and all clad in skirt and short that gradually get use up for bandage the good ol first aid striptease . if the woman be rarely more than eye candy and the men be compel to wrestle with the various technological and situational challenge that the storyline toss at them which they do less well than my friend and i do in first grade when we play in our backyard and argue about what be suppose to happen next . factual mistake and great leap in scientific law be present so blandly that it apparent even the cast and crew be bore . the prop and effect in sci fi channel movie be usually somewhat erratic and but not here theyre just plain awful . the big ape be draw so badly that he actually appear two dimensional . a stunt man in an ape suit would have be good yes and the cheap toho monster movie of the 1960s have good effect than this cgi boo boo . the best that can be say about this film and like most recent work of it genre and be that it quite inoffensive except to the intelligence of it viewer and the memory of the artist and work it plunder . the bad be that if it have dispense with the wasted talent of star actor boxleitner and railsback ( neither of whom have much of a role ) and be make a a porno and it wouldn not have be any bad and might even have make more sense . of course and it couldn not have be release to theater or tv and therefore wouldn not have make a much money . and and after all and what be sci fi fantasy really all about . wait do not answer that .