For those of you who might’ve wondered, Primitive War is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Ethan Pettus, who both co-wrote the script for the film. Part of me would have loved to have seen that this was filmed outside of Australia instead of on the Gold Coast in Queensland. The eucalyptus trees that can be seen throughout the movie didn’t help with the visuals of this movie being set in Vietnam (After some brief research I found out Eucalyptus trees were Introduced from Australia in the 1930s-1950s widely planted for pulpwood, construction poles, and furniture, covering roughly 600,000 hectares.)

I’d like to think that Primitive War could have benefited from a slightly larger budget considering how CGI heavy the movie some of the effect shots looked like something you’d expect from a movie from the 90’s.  Primitive War managed to negate a small amount  of the ill will that I had towards the “dinosaur” genre I had because of the new Jurassic Park movies. I have always seen Ryan Kwanten as a romantic lead. I loved him in the 2013 movie The Right Kind of Wrong. But after watching him in Primitive War I’m starting to see that he’s a viable action star. I really enjoyed Tricia Helfer’s performance as Sofia Wagner. In the past with certain big budget movie franchises criticism has been levelled at their female characters and how poorly they are written Sofia Wagner is an example of how well a female character can be written. I was a little surprised to see that Jeremy Lindsay Taylor popped up in this as General Grigory Borodin.