This film isn't really so much a documentary about the 13th Trex skeleton found, but rather, the intense legal battles and drama over this find. Basically put, their Trex discovery is so important/valuable that the land owner they initially buy the fossil from after digging it up decides to reneg on his arrangement, then the govt steps in, and then half the planet becomes involved in trying to settle the claims over the fossil. 3/4 of the film focuses on the dizzyingly boring legalities of this struggle, which could have been concluded in a single sentence. Only the very beginning of this documentary focuses on the finding of the fossil itself.
This could have been a very interesting introduction to paleontology and dinosaurs, and I was expecting this very thing, but instead just gets lost in uninteresting and complicated legal drama. Who cares?
This could have been a very interesting introduction to paleontology and dinosaurs, and I was expecting this very thing, but instead just gets lost in uninteresting and complicated legal drama. Who cares?