*After "Incredibles 2" review*
Corporate Driver: *sigh* I cannot believe how many people love "Incredibles 2"!! This is hust an utter BullS*** reaction! We better find some other films that deserves to be negative!
Secretary Driver: I know... How about "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" to make a film look boring?
Corporate Driver: Ah Ha! That will be wonderful idea! We're gonna take their film to make a good start, but in boring way, along with focus of presentation, what do ya say?
Secretary Driver: Yep.
Corporate Driver: This will be a great way to make money for us and the people who made this movie, especially for selling limited edition of Doritos which i don't care, because come on, the movie viewers are bunch of sheeps, like we're gonna laugh our asses off that they'll spend money to see this potential! Time to make a call! *grabs his phone for his manipulation*
*few days later*
Anthony: Well, after several months of waiting when i heard about the sequel of Jurassic World, maybe this will be promising and probably dramatic. *walks to the movie theater*
*2 hours later*
Anthony: *sigh* ... I don't know where i begin?
Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my movie review.
From three years ago, i talked about "Jurassic World" which is gonna be the return of our favorite Spielberg movie "Jurassic Park". Though its a nice return, but its considered a perfect film. And boy, it got a lot of money of box-office with over 1.672 billion dollars.
Due to the success of box-office, some people though it will be a good idea to make a sequel for changing the life of dinosaurs.
"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" is a 2018 sci-fi adventure film directed by J. A. Bayona, produced by Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Belén Atienza (along with Steven Spielberg returns as executive producer), and written by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly.
When it was announced, i probably knew its gotta be a sequel since i liked the previous film or maybe a box-office. But of course, it has to make something changed and maybe brought back some old characters that we like to see after 20 years, but rarely for expensive reason. One of them who gets a surprised return is Jeff Goldblum.
But oh boy, it showed that its not what we expected...
Well, lets find out.
The Story
It picks up three years after the previous film where our heroes escaped Isla Numblar and killing off Indominus Rex, the island of dinosaurs is about to be destroy from a volcano, which resulting a debate whether the dinosaurs will be extinct or maybe save them in US, meanwhile, Claire Dearing becoming an activist of dinosaurs with the group Dinosaur Protection Group, not before she has a phone call from Benjamin Lockwood to make sure some kinds of dinosaurs will be safe, but one of them is gonna be complicated for the last kind is Velociraptor. So Clair, Owen Grady, Franklin Webb and Zia Rodriguez have to find the way save the dinosaurs and probably dealing against Eli Mills for his auction to selling dinosaurs for money.
At first, its sorta like a "Lost world", which it has a similar story where it takes in abandoned island and military's "Good idea" of bringing dinosaur in US (such as New York), but sadly, it was just the beginning that it has a good start where the island is destroyed, leaving the other dinosaurs gets killed from destructive eruption. however, the rest of the story start to get boring, which it mainly focus on actions, some monologue and the bidding. I mean, it will be something cool when the island is destroyed, but nope, it feels empty with probably adding a cliche story element, which is probably an environmental content of saving dinosaurs. There's a subplot that there's another hybrid dinosaur was created after Indominus Rex's skeleton was discovered in the ocean, they called "Indoraptor", it may sounds cool, but it was just for showing from the second to third act.
The story is so average that it had a good start, but as later on, get got bored quickly.
The Production
Aside for the story the its rather lame, but the production is.. Well, what do you expect.
Nice presentation, interesting film location and of course, the production of dinosaurs. Though its obvious that most dinosaurs are all done in CGI and even animatronics like before that you've seen. But the one thing that noticed is that they brought a new dinosaurs what they originally intended to like Allosaurus, Carnotaurus and few others. But some are originally to be in the movie as Dilophosaurus for original cut, but that idea was removed for reason, maybe its the limit of budget, even the direction is actually pretty good. And you're probably wondering about my thoughts of second hybrid dinosaur called "Indoraptor"? Well, it looks more like a raptor with two times bigger and trickier with intelligent, and i think its rather cooler than Indominus Rex.
But my problem is that, its pretty much else to say, it focused a lot with dinosaurs and the action scenes, i mean i like the action scenes with dinosaurs with T Rex. It just comes off as show off the production how intense the action, scary and probably dark it is. I felt not only the story is lame, but its also being forgotten due to the focus of presentation for desperation with money.
The production looks great, but could we just make something important for the story or something? I mean geez, the multi-times that i was criticizing about the visuals/presentation makes the movie, its the story and the characters makes the movie for god sake!
The Characters
Its nice to see the characters back in the previous installment, but sadly, they're pretty above average.
There's some characters return, but they have a little development, like Owen Grady (played by my favorite actor Chris Pratt) is a retired trainer of raptor and a typical main hero and Claire Dearing (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) is now an activist for dinosaur, but she's a typical female side character. Don't give me wrong, they're pretty good for acting, its just that their developments is above average for their small change.
As for the new casts, they're pretty bellow that i felt that some characters aren't as special that i was again, expecting.
There's Eli Mills (played by Rafe Spall) who's a main villain where he wants almost all the dinosaurs for his power and money in Lockwood Estate. I mean, he's just a typical manipulator that his goal is the take the dinosaurs away for money and probably making a hybrid dinosaur with a scientist. Though Rafe did a nice work of acting, but it doesn't mean i hate that guy, its just he's a forgettable written villain.
But the rest aren't give explanation that i wanna tell, Franklin Webb (played by Justice Smith) is a nerd hacker, Zia Rodriguez (played by Daniella Pineda) is sorta tomboy former marine, Gunnar Eversol (played by Toby Jones) is a host with bidder and Maisie Lockwood (played by a young Isabella Sermon) is a typical kid sidekick.
But there's one that i probably feel bad due to the incident is Benjamin Lockwood (played by James Cromwell), he's an old partner of John Hammond for creating clone that would've been great, but with a power greed and without homeland of dinosaurs, it will never be the same for him. Which Spoiler alert, he sadly passed away in second act on the movie.
And you're probably wondering about the return of Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum)? Well i hate to tell you guys, he's basically used a cameo about his decision from the debate of dinosaurs. I know Jeff is a talented and expensive veteran actor, but good lord, talk about a waste of potential to having him as a cameo. I mean come on, Harrison Ford got more appearance in Blade Runner 2049.
The characters in this movie would've been ok for more development, instead of plain one dimensional persona. But don't give wrong, they did a good job of acting, but again, its just that their roles would've been better for the writing.
And now for my final opinion of this film.
Overall, its the second weakest installment of Jurassic Park series since the third one.
With above average story, the production is over-shown, characters is so average and boring and the writing is an absolute clunker. But sure, i do like some action scenes with dinosaurs, the emotional flashback scene with Owen and Blue, the T Rex, a new hybrid dinosaur and the musical scores. But its just that it falls flat quickly that i wanted to like this movie. Not only that, before i watch the movie, there was a bag of Doritos of grilled steak flavor limited edition, which it tasted pretty good that i might say, but the marketing of Doritos of this movie wouldn't help to make a good film, its painfully average.
But if you're a big fan of dinosaurs like Jurassic Park/World, maybe this one is for you.
I would've give this movie a 7, but i tone down badly to 5.5/10. I mean i really wish this could be very special for a good writing, but it ended up as a very average film.
But of course since we're in a summer film, if you ask me which one do i think its better, il easily stick to "Incredibles 2", which at least it was fun and worth of waiting for nearly 15 years. But "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" feels like a typical summer blockbuster that i was disappointed.
So this ends of my movie review, if you guys have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know at comment bellow and support me on Pateron.com/Blackevil915 for your big request.
Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.
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