I've got to say, the opening scene of the film I quite enjoyed, characters being dumb and getting eaten in a pretty cool set piece, it was a bit of fun, but overall Jurassic World is very disappointing thanks to a plot that is totally ridiculous. It takes itself way too seriously when the plot is like something Dr Evil from Austin Powers would dream up, "Let's collect and sell the dinosaurs to the bad guys of the world so they can use them in their armies!" What? That is the plot for your film, are you being serious with me? One of the dinosaurs being auctioned the auctioneer goes "and this one paleontologists called natures tank because of it's armor", and the villains in the room ooh and aah as they start bidding their millions of dollars, and all I thought was, have these guys never heard of human made tanks that have guns that kill things like natures tanks? The main bad dinosaurs gimmick is that you point a laser at something or someone and the dino will kill it, that's right, it's essentially just a land shark with a laser on its head, Dr Evil would be pleased.
And I'd also like to say, if dinosaurs are worth so much to these people to use as weapons, why don't they use lions or elephants? They're readily available, and judging by what I've seen in circuses can be trained to do things even without being genetically engineered. Surely a trained lion is just as deadly to a human as a trained dino is? Not to mention that owning a dinosaur would bring a bit more attention down on you than owning a lion would, oh well, to hell with logic, this is Jurassic World after all.
I know I spent a lot of words just going on about one thing, but it's the entire plot of the film and it's just so terribly bad and seemingly not thought out at all.
Apart from the visual effects there's really nothing to praise about this film, it looks good, it's directed well, the 2 lead characters are as good as they were in the first film, that's about it for the positives. On the negative you have supporting characters that are either completely forgettable or overly annoying, and when I say annoying I mean think of the most irritating comic relief character from a Michael Bay film then times their annoying factor by 10, that's how annoying this one character is, he makes Jar Jar Binks seem not that bad. The main bad guys motivation, well his entire character really, is that he's rich and wants to be richer, that's it.
The annoying thing is that the film started off quite well posing the question, what ethically should we do with dinosaurs if a natural event is going to wipe them out? In the original Jurassic Park the characters discussed the ethics of bringing these creatures back to life while in this film they were asking should we save these creatures we created from a second extinction? The moral dilemma was worth exploring and quite intriguing, unfortunately the conversation about it lasts for about 2 minutes before it's off to the island to fight dinosaurs and volcanoes and action action boom boom explosion. It was an opportunity missed.
I understand that it's a summer blockbuster about dinosaurs, but just a little bit of depth to the movie would have been nice for the people in the audience over the age of 9.
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