Primitive War
This ain't no walk in the park.
2025 | 134m | English
Popularity: 14 (history)
| Director: | Luke Sparke |
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| Writer: | Luke Sparke, Ethan Pettus |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 21, 2025 |
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| Director: | Luke Sparke |
| Writer: | Luke Sparke, Ethan Pettus |
| Genres: | Action, War, Horror, Science Fiction |
| Keywords | based on novel or book, vietnam war, survival, prehistory, prehistoric creature, dinosaur, survival horror, horror novel, war, adaptation, antagonistic, audacious, celebratory |
| Production Companies | Sparke Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $217,753
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Mar 20, 2026 Entered: Sep 28, 2025 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jeremy Piven | Colonel Jericho |
| Tricia Helfer | Sofia |
| Ryan Kwanten | Baker |
| Nick Wechsler | Eli |
| Anthony Ingruber | Keyes |
| Aaron Glenane | Logan |
| Carlos Sanson Jr. | Leon |
| Ana Thu Nguyen | Con Nhen |
| Adolphus Waylee | Xavier |
| Marcus Johnson | Ibex |
| Jake Ryan | Major Wallace |
| M.J. Kokolis | Sergei |
| Henry Nixon | Bishop |
| Ryan Panizza | Tolstoy |
| Jeremy Lindsay Taylor | Borodin |
| Kawakawa Fox-Reo | Ricardo |
| Lincoln Lewis | Zimmer |
| Adam Fraser | American Soldier |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Frederik Wiedmann | Original Music Composer |
| Alex Becconsall | First Assistant Director |
| Luke Sparke | Production Design, Writer, Director, Editor |
| Wade Muller | Director of Photography |
| Zoe Marxsen | Second Assistant Director |
| Ethan Pettus | Original Story |
| Tracey Rose Sparke | Costume Designer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Luke Sparke | Executive Producer |
| Alex Becconsall | Co-Producer |
| Carly Sparke | Producer |
| Carmel Imrie | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 25 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 3 |
| 2025 | 9 | 42 | 315 | 6 |
| 2025 | 10 | 197 | 398 | 79 |
| 2025 | 11 | 59 | 102 | 31 |
| 2025 | 12 | 24 | 34 | 19 |
| 2026 | 1 | 19 | 22 | 15 |
| 2026 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 12 |
| 2026 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 11 |
Trending Position
| Year | Month | High | Avg |
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| 2026 | 3 | 32 | 463 |
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| 2026 | 2 | 157 | 491 |
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| 2026 | 1 | 59 | 494 |
| Year | Month | High | Avg |
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| 2025 | 12 | 116 | 468 |
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| 2025 | 11 | 66 | 324 |
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| 2025 | 10 | 9 | 146 |
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| 2025 | 9 | 10 | 14 |
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.