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Okay, on the one hand it is a passable action adventure, provided you only pay matinee prices. That leaves the other hand, which has the burden of holding all that is wrong with the movie story-wise. There are so many points where you, the audience member will want to shake your head and say "What?" or possibly "Why?" and most definitely "Huh???" The characters are annoying (the ones who live, which are easy to pick out...the names above the title and of course the kid.) The rest are quickly dispatched Star Trek Style. The remaining ones, plunging through the dino-laden jungle like an especially loud herd of elephants, made me want to yell "SHUT UP!" if only they could have heard me. Unfortunately, no helpful dinosaur showed up to eat them as I wished. Which is surprising considering the never-ending supply of dinosaurs on the island.
Many things do not make sense in this film, from the relative durability of structures (the dinosaur retaining fences do not hold, but the Spinosaurus is put off by a half-demolished hut...) to the raptors so intelligent they can count their eggs, figure out some are missing and pinpoint the location of the thief, but never quite manage to outwit the supposedly smarter humans (except for the aforementioned appetizer people.) And the ending was soooooo lame. I don't need to reveal it but boy was it unbelievable. Too easy, like they just gave up on the story and decided to end the movie. I could never tell what the time of day was, it seemed to switch from morning to afternoon, to morning and then to night all in about 15 minutes of screen time. Many more items could be mentioned, but they can be summed up as lazy screenwriting.
For the record, I liked Jurassic Park (the original) very much and this doesn't hold a candle to that flick. I liked the dinosaur effects in all three movies, but although they should have been better in this film they weren't. Maybe more dinosaur sequences would have improved the story. My three year old son was unfazed by the dino fight scenes, they weren't that scary. I was startled many times by the exceptionally loud noises, but not the menacing dinosaurs. I wish it would have been a better story, but have pretty much come to expect this state of affairs in Hollywood today. Too bad for us.
Okay, on the one hand it is a passable action adventure, provided you only pay matinee prices. That leaves the other hand, which has the burden of holding all that is wrong with the movie story-wise. There are so many points where you, the audience member will want to shake your head and say "What?" or possibly "Why?" and most definitely "Huh???" The characters are annoying (the ones who live, which are easy to pick out...the names above the title and of course the kid.) The rest are quickly dispatched Star Trek Style. The remaining ones, plunging through the dino-laden jungle like an especially loud herd of elephants, made me want to yell "SHUT UP!" if only they could have heard me. Unfortunately, no helpful dinosaur showed up to eat them as I wished. Which is surprising considering the never-ending supply of dinosaurs on the island.
Many things do not make sense in this film, from the relative durability of structures (the dinosaur retaining fences do not hold, but the Spinosaurus is put off by a half-demolished hut...) to the raptors so intelligent they can count their eggs, figure out some are missing and pinpoint the location of the thief, but never quite manage to outwit the supposedly smarter humans (except for the aforementioned appetizer people.) And the ending was soooooo lame. I don't need to reveal it but boy was it unbelievable. Too easy, like they just gave up on the story and decided to end the movie. I could never tell what the time of day was, it seemed to switch from morning to afternoon, to morning and then to night all in about 15 minutes of screen time. Many more items could be mentioned, but they can be summed up as lazy screenwriting.
For the record, I liked Jurassic Park (the original) very much and this doesn't hold a candle to that flick. I liked the dinosaur effects in all three movies, but although they should have been better in this film they weren't. Maybe more dinosaur sequences would have improved the story. My three year old son was unfazed by the dino fight scenes, they weren't that scary. I was startled many times by the exceptionally loud noises, but not the menacing dinosaurs. I wish it would have been a better story, but have pretty much come to expect this state of affairs in Hollywood today. Too bad for us.
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