The 'Jurassic' series has come quite a long ways from the original 93' blockbuster hit. I remember seeing the original Jurassic Park in the theater when it came out and being amazed at the first scene with the large brontosauruses, the terrifying T-rex scene, and the insidious Velociraptor scenes. Now, some 29 years later we have the latest addition to consider. It seems to have established excellent Dominion over ticket sales.
It is incredible to think that this movie had a 265 million dollar budget and was able to snag 1 billion. It demonstrates the power of digital dinosaurs, even when the storyline is patchy at best. What can be done next with the digital dinos now that we are on the 6th installment? Bring in new dinosaurs? Check. Bring in old cast members? Check. Make a new park? Check. Have the new park destroyed by dinosaurs? Check. Have some thrilling dino scenes? Check. Have some action scenes? Check. Have T-Rex show up and save the day? Check.
That is the movie in a nutshell. It is more like a safe reboot than anything, which seems to be the pattern of modern Hollywood films. The storyline really did not matter much as long as some key elements were included to satisfy the fans in this massive cash grab. Overall the movie seems long, clocking it at over 2 hours. It appears to have elements of different directors kind of glued together into one heavily edited end result. Graphically it is a beautiful film with all boxes checked: Snow scene? Check. Adventure scene in exotic location? Check. Mountain scene? Check. Night time? Check. Mysterious Labs? Check. Water scene? Check. Desert? Check. Forest? Check. Farm? Check. All of the graphics are there. It somehow worked, even if it seemed as tired as the old cast members making their re-appearance.
This film also had more obvious social commentary 'woke' content than previous films to reflect the modern era with all necessary evil white guys, strong female leads, strong minorities, etc. Included. Everything almost worked together too well to where the viewer did not feel anything bad could possibly happen to the leads despite being in certain "scary" situations. This is particularly clear in the scene with all of the main characters hiding behind a car from the Super-T-rex. It almost had a Scooby-doo type silliness to it. It is a reflection of the producers of this film not taking any risks to deliver a safe product to check all the boxes to grab the necessary cash! In that regard the film accomplished its goals.
The only strange element that I noticed in the film is Malcom's lecture to the student as well as the film's jab at the Bible by flipping Genesis 1:26 KJV (And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.) to say that the creatures have dominion over the earth rather than mankind. There are obvious shots at God in this film which were silly and unnecessary in my opinion. The film tried to be deep with a plot, but ended up being very recycled and lame for the most part. I give the film a 6.
It is incredible to think that this movie had a 265 million dollar budget and was able to snag 1 billion. It demonstrates the power of digital dinosaurs, even when the storyline is patchy at best. What can be done next with the digital dinos now that we are on the 6th installment? Bring in new dinosaurs? Check. Bring in old cast members? Check. Make a new park? Check. Have the new park destroyed by dinosaurs? Check. Have some thrilling dino scenes? Check. Have some action scenes? Check. Have T-Rex show up and save the day? Check.
That is the movie in a nutshell. It is more like a safe reboot than anything, which seems to be the pattern of modern Hollywood films. The storyline really did not matter much as long as some key elements were included to satisfy the fans in this massive cash grab. Overall the movie seems long, clocking it at over 2 hours. It appears to have elements of different directors kind of glued together into one heavily edited end result. Graphically it is a beautiful film with all boxes checked: Snow scene? Check. Adventure scene in exotic location? Check. Mountain scene? Check. Night time? Check. Mysterious Labs? Check. Water scene? Check. Desert? Check. Forest? Check. Farm? Check. All of the graphics are there. It somehow worked, even if it seemed as tired as the old cast members making their re-appearance.
This film also had more obvious social commentary 'woke' content than previous films to reflect the modern era with all necessary evil white guys, strong female leads, strong minorities, etc. Included. Everything almost worked together too well to where the viewer did not feel anything bad could possibly happen to the leads despite being in certain "scary" situations. This is particularly clear in the scene with all of the main characters hiding behind a car from the Super-T-rex. It almost had a Scooby-doo type silliness to it. It is a reflection of the producers of this film not taking any risks to deliver a safe product to check all the boxes to grab the necessary cash! In that regard the film accomplished its goals.
The only strange element that I noticed in the film is Malcom's lecture to the student as well as the film's jab at the Bible by flipping Genesis 1:26 KJV (And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.) to say that the creatures have dominion over the earth rather than mankind. There are obvious shots at God in this film which were silly and unnecessary in my opinion. The film tried to be deep with a plot, but ended up being very recycled and lame for the most part. I give the film a 6.