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CSSCHNEIDER

This isn't a good movie, but it's so much better than the previous film and contains some really stellar direction. Yup, bad movies can have good direction.

5 years 10 months ago

sekiji

I've lost a couple of my life's hours watching this... the end it's horrible, a blend of Planet of the Apes and Resident Evil as said before.
A tip: do not watch this.

5 years 2 months ago

chunkylefunga

Just plain old lazy writing; clichéd, predictable, terrible CGI and animatronics, looks like it was made before the original.

I hope this is the last in the series.

5 years 7 months ago

Leonard1168

Una de las peores películas que vi en mi vida.

5 years 4 months ago

canaan

better than the previous Jurassic World. But the evils of the money grabbers and the military were trite and predictable

5 years 7 months ago

It is better than the previous Jurassic World, but...
despite there being a much more talented director on board with a very good cinematography and well-balanced pacing (editing), the movie still has many flaws.
Plotwise, the first half of the story is almost a repeat of The Lost World, with a team of 'good' dino-lovers vs the military scoundrels stealing all the dinosaurs off the island.
The second part is more original, altough i had the feeling that Bayona tried too hard at adapting the jurassic franchise into his own gothic horor world with references to haunted houses and Nosferatu. Also, spoiler

This brings me to another comment and perhaps the greatest weakness of the film: the cardboard characters. I practically LOVE Toby Jones in everything, but here it was all too much a caricature. The younger students served no purpose to the plot whatsoever and Jeff Goldbumm, well... he cashed his cheque and money found a way. Characters were one of the strongest elements in the original Jurassic Park, which was all about the arc of its visitors more than just a run-of-the-mill monsters gone wild movie. Let's wait anonther three years to see who's the next creative arthouse director they can convince to make a heavilly marketed monster movie.

5 years 10 months ago

DisneyStitch

It says an awful lot that spoiler

After all, why not just cram as much plot into it as possible, right?

So much of this is rehashed from other Jurassic films in the series that it's a fairly embarrassing venture. Just when you think that maybe, just maybe certain characters aren't cookie cutter versions of villains from the other films it turns out they are, and right down to the exact same motivations too. Money, greed, and power... wash, rinse, repeat. spoiler

One would think that the good guys would at least have some character development to even out the score but it's not there. Add a heavy helping of too much CGI and this was one painful outing. spoiler

7 months 2 weeks ago

Siskoid

The second Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, injects a bit more humor in Chris Pratt's character - weirdly missing from the first installment - and Bryce Dallas Howard's is less useless and grating, but the writing is still dead stupid. It's already a cliché within the franchise that venal plutocrats will want to buy dinosaurs, but the movie just doesn't make its point that these might become the new atomic bomb. For one thing, even the boring super-predator hybrid is too easily defeated by the heroes, and for another, if you've got a sniper rifle trained on someone, which is what gives the raptor its target, why don't you just fire? Weapons merchants are as dazzled as the movie wants us to be by the dinosaurs. But then, this thing doesn't know jack about anything it puts in its plot, whether volcano physics, medicine or genetics. One of the things that a friend said to me recently is that J-World wants us to think of its dinos as real animals, then CG or not, proceeds to abuse and hurt them. There is a surprising poignancy to the dinosaurs being left on a sinking island, but otherwise, you might as well be kicking cats and dogs throughout. Sure, it means the villains are evil, but that's really all they are, slimes from their first shot with no surprise when they do their heel turn. The precocious little girl - because of course there is one - is obnoxious and, as it turns out, a barely sketched-in plot device. Her last line is on the order of Neil Patrick Harris' "They're afraid" in Starship Troopers, but not meant ironically - just the worst of many, many dialogue disasters.

1 year 10 months ago