jimmy reeves is a down on his luck wildlife wrangler his career once saw him traveling the globe working on relocation programs and starring in documentary films now he and his business partner paul franciscus are lucky if they can get a gig wrangling bulls in arizona until one day when they receive a massive advance payment from a mysterious company based in florida in return they are to do what once brought them glory the world over trap and relocated endangered animals little do they know theyre not going to the everglades to trap alligators theyre going through time and space to rescue great big dinosaurs but others have come to pillage the cretaceous world for its natural resources and to enslave and exploit the prehistoric inhabitants they are ruthless they are well equipped and they will stop at nothing its up to unwitting reeves to make a stand not just for the dinosaurs but to save his own life teaming up with an alluring paleontologist and a helicopter pilot nicknamed crash to save the land of the forgotten from human annihilation