Several unsavoury types are looking for undersea treasure, but their explosives-based approach succeeds only in revealing an aggressive CGI dinosaur, which promptly eats most of them.
A group of tourists find the one survivor, who persuades them to join his search for the loot, despite the fact that a local crime boss expects the treasure to be handed over to him. You'd think "killer monster" and "killer mobsters" would be enough to put people off, but not these guys!
Spoiler: most of these idiots (and most of the mobsters) are gonna end up as monster-chow.
Poseidon Rex is a bad film, though I must give it a couple of very minor kudos for occasionally being bad in novel (if stupid) ways. Novel but stupid feature #1 is the movie's complete disinterest in having an heroic lead. There is a lead, but he's no hero: arguably he's got more than a tinge of villain in him, but apparently we're supposed to cheer him on. Novel but stupid feature #2 is that the titular monster is ... well, just a dinosaur. Sure it rampages around killing people, but as soon as the military turns up, it's all over Rex Rover.
Oh, did I just spoil the end of the movie? Well, I'm not going to apologise: you are really better off not watching this anyway.
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