oh my . what a wonderfully awful film this turn out to be . it even have troy . er i mean marc mcclure in it . you may remember him from . no . no . i will stop now . anyway and epoch be a film with a simple enough plot . think 2001 a space odyssey and but without any space bit . basically and an alien artifact appear in bhutan and a team be send to investigate . a team which include the like of david keith and craig wasson and ryan oneal . poor old ryan be look a little the bad for wear in this one . it be a long time since love story and for sure . anyway and the action be pretty lame and i get a good laugh out of the scissor lift hq truck ( watch and you will see what i mean ) . the plot be pretty hokey and have more hole than a swiss cheese . i would like to give you a spoiler alert and but honestly and i be not ruin anything by tell you this . the artifact be put here by alien eon ago . every now and again and it pop up and and if whatever civilisation be not advanced enough to deactivate it and it wipe that civilisation out completely and disappear for another few million of year . i can not honestly recall if they say so or not in the film and but the implication be that it wipe out the dinosaur . now and call me picky and but i have trouble understanding just why an alien race would create such a device . give the timescales involve in life forming and evolve to a civilised state and what do they get out of it . and since the device could wipe out a civilisation just a few year before it be able to deactivate the artifact and surely that would be counter productive ( to whatever motive the alien have in the first place ) . far good to create the device to wipe out any advanced specie before it become a threat to the creator . yet this be clearly not the aim of the artifact . and what wonderful test of civilisation do our humble human hero perform to deactivate the device . perhaps solve some complex alien language and press the off button . or simply provide the miss part to some quantum mechanic equation . no and all our hero do in the end be nuke the artifact . a triumph of brute force over ingenuity . no thought require and just fry it . the only small ray of sunshine in this otherwise overcast film be brian thompson . he regularly play bit part in film and tv and usually end up the villain or goon . here he play a special force captain . but despite his square jaw glaring and even his dialogue and part be dismal and forgettable . summary represent one to miss .