Friday, June 22, 2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

So all the dinosaurs are on Isla Nuba with no human interference after the last fiasco (see Jurassic World). And somehow they are confined there (weird sea gate but only in one place??? flying dinos can't fly to mainland???). When the island volcano begins an eruption cycle, there is discussion about how to save the animals. The old team is brought back together to help save the dinos, are double crossed, and have to improve their way around a bad situation. My critique of this film is primarily that is seems like lazy story-telling. Over and over again, the details don't make sense or are cheap tricks to move to the next stunt (e.g. a brontosaurus is transported, but the largest truck seen is an 18-wheeler, a knife in a crack suddenly pops off an entire pod door, etc.). The only good that can come out of this movie is perhaps it sets up a Planet of the Apes scenario now. Unfortunately, there is only one intelligent dino, so we would again have to take a big leap to make it work.
2 stars (out of 5)

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