Primitive War

"This ain't no walk in the park."

2025 2h 15m EN

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6.6

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60%

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5.3

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★6.6TMDB · 560🍅60%Rotten Tomatoes★5.3IMDB · 11,899

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During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

“This ain't no walk in the park.”

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Cast

Ryan Kwanten
Baker
Tricia Helfer
Sofia
Nick Wechsler
Eli
Jeremy Piven
Colonel Jericho
Anthony Ingruber
Keyes
Aaron Glenane
Logan
Carlos Sanson Jr.
Leon
Albert Mwangi
Miller

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Luke Sparke
Writers: Ethan Pettus, Luke Sparke
Languages: English, Vietnamese, Russian
Countries: Australia

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1 / 8

ERA

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Released last year.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, Vietnamese, Russian.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Luke Sparke, shot by Wade Muller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Frederik Wiedmann. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Luke Sparke shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Ryan Kwanten and Tricia Helfer and Nick Wechsler carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "This ain't no walk in the park.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt18312380 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Luke Sparke directs. Wade Muller behind the camera. Frederik Wiedmann scores. Luke Sparke cuts. Produced in Australia. Dialogue in English, Vietnamese, Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released last year.
2Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, Vietnamese, Russian.
3Directed by Luke Sparke, shot by Wade Muller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Frederik Wiedmann. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Luke Sparke shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Ryan Kwanten and Tricia Helfer and Nick Wechsler carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "This ain't no walk in the park.".
8IMDB entry: tt18312380 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 15 themes, including "vietnam war", "based on novel or book", "time warp", "wormhole".
10Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Wade Muller
Original score: Frederik Wiedmann
Editing: Luke Sparke
Production design: Luke Sparke
Runtime: 135 min · 2h 15m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $217,753
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Primitive War (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 60% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 5.3/10 · 11,899 votes

Awards

3 wins total

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Chandler Danier2026-02-01
★ 7/10
Is the Vietnam war the most fun setting to be an actor? Racism! Murder! One-liners! Also, the Russians are back, baby! I would like to have seen Crowe revisit his accent, perhaps as Tolstoy, but these Russians are good. I really enjoyed the top 40 of this. I was flying high on the equisite blend of terrible and fun within this adventure. All good things must come to an endtimes and the movie struggles to innovate fun over the following 90. Pretty much everything except the baddest Russian come out within the first 40 and after the cold war and now uhhh the new order, Russian baddies are hard to innovate. This also follows the recent trend to paint Russians as Nazis. The Nazis were German, right? I guess Russian nazis make sense as Putin is a guy who doesn't speak English as a first language. The tunnel scene really worked for me. Jumping mini dinosaurs, long chin-cam close-ups topped off by a one-liner, and a constant barrage of bullet sounds. All the individual scenes make no sense when we pull back to a pile of dudes firing at weird angles with super imposed dinosaurs directly in the line of fire just jumping or looking at them. The donk when the T-rex snaps is worth the wait.
Sejian2026-06-25
★ 7/10
Dare I say, this was more entertaining than that awful Monster Hunter live-action movie, and most of the Jurassic movies. There are, of course, some really stupid moments, like Keyes not remembering that when the little murder turkeys run away, it means a bigger murder turkey is lurking, but hot dayum, the reveal of big murder turkey was gruesomly awesome, and the two giant murder turkeys tearing !@#$ up at the end was just the best a dinosaur lover could ask for. This might just be one of my favorite dinosaur movies!