Directed by: J.A. Bayona
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ted Levine
(15 votes)
Probably the worst Jurassic Park movie yet. At least the third movie had the sense to have the characters go to a dinosaur-filled island for a rescue mission while tricking the main character into going against his best wishes. This film merely repeats the foolishness exhibited by the characters in the previous film, apparently being too dense to realise that creating dinosaurs is a bad idea.
Almost everything about this movie is mind-numbingly stupid and its justification for setting up a sequel is extremely contrived.
I rented this movie from Red Box.
I'm really on the fens about this one. I would put it between 2 and 3 stars if I could. If the rating system was on a 10 star level, I would have put it at around a 4 or 5.
The Jurassic has definitely had it's ups and downs, and while this not the worst of the bunch by far... it still lacks a lot. The characters are bland, and Chris Pratt is not given much room to shine in a dull and uninteresting character. And with his character being the second best in the film... that's a problem.
The story has begun to devolve to much into a cartoonish like battle off good dinos vs bad dinos with stagnate humans padding the run time.
It was a bit refreshing when I saw the military leader guy not being portrayed in the stereotypical gruff military colonel fashion that his type of character is usually portrayed as. But then that was ruined by him turning on the main character. If he was the stereotype, the betrayal would have been expected. So it happening like it did actually was unexpected... but not in a good way. It came off as an eye rolling disappointment of "Oh great so it is that kind of character after all" just when I was starting to like the guy.
The visuals in the story are great, and I won't shy away from admitting the fact that I almost shed a tear on the Long Neck on the lava dock scene... you know the one. But the whole movie felt like a rushed, half-assed segway trailer to part 3.
Mistake Status: Searched partly when rented. No current plans to revisit but may happen in the future if I decide to do the Jurassic Park series
A good film but a few problems for my liking.
1) Too many references to the first film. The Indoraptor clicking it's claw on the floor. Maisie using the dumbwaiter to hide from a raptor, The T-Rex doing it's traditional roar. Even the rebooting the system that puts Owen and Claire in trouble. It's been done before.
2) As another review states, The whole movie is just characters making the same stupid mistakes as they did in the first film.
3) The whole Lockwood estate makes no sense. How would anyone be able to keep that many dinosaurs there and not attract any attention.
Good points:
CGI is exceptionally brilliant with good acting by a few characters.
A few good action scenes.
Not one to re-watch straight away but still good to watch.
Really frightening and intense start to finish! Intro scene would give kids nightmares for days and the ending is enough to give anyone chills! Spectacular!
Liked it very much.
Continuity mistake: When Ken Wheatley is pointing his tranquilizer gun at Zia after he shot Owen, he puts the gun in his left hand and uses his right hand to wave his men down, but mid wave, the camera cuts to a different angle and he is waving with his left hand while holding the gun in his right hand. (00:30:00)
Ian Malcolm: Welcome... to Jurassic World.
Question: What is up with the auction scene? Knowing that dinosaurs are unpredictable, why would they want to sell them off anyway? What were people planning on doing with them; keep them as pets? Build their own park? Use them against their enemies? This scene makes no sense and plus, even with them able to make more and more dinosaurs, why keep selling them at all? I'm sorry for all the questions but this scene is just weird for me.
Answer: They were sold for the sole purpose of making hundreds of millions of dollars from the auction and future sales. The buyers had different reasons for wanting them: weaponizing them, for trophy hunting, private zoos, etc. The buyers' zeal in wanting such exotic animals overruled their sensibilities regarding how dangerous the dinosaurs were and the extreme conditions needed to manage them.
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