Film Review - Jurassic World

I was really looking forward to this one, about a year ago. Then the trailers took the edge off that interest as they gave away too much of the plot and the effects, and none of it was particularly good. All they should have done for a trailer was to show the first 45 seconds of the actual film.

In hindsight the trailers are even more annoying as bits of the trailer (Vincent D'Onofrio shouting about the lack of boats, guns etc) are not even in the final cut of the film!

The whole of the rest of the movie is just a bit of a let down. I didn't really care if the kids got eaten, they were dicks. I didn't really care if she got eaten, she is a heartless snob with no personal skills. I might have been upset if Chris Pratt got eaten, but more because I like Chris Pratt than because I liked his character.  The one trick pony Mososaurus was so predictable as Deus Ex Machina that it was a total let down.

Then there are all the soldiers. The amateur park rangers who are armed with non-lethal weapons manage to score hits all over the place but the I-Rex is apparently immune to their weapons. So why are they carrying them? The professionals they then helicopter in with the heavy weapons have all the shooting skills of your average storm-trooper and the tactical skills of a mouse in a room full of traps. 

Then there are just the basic stupid failures. You know what happened in the previous parks. You have the technology to tag and track every dinosaur. Why does that tag not have at least a tranquilliser, and more sensibly a small fatal poison in it that you can trigger to kill a single rogue dinosaur? Why aren't the walls alarmed? Why don't they check the tag location BEFORE they go into the cage?! 

And the story holes just get worse: They have sold thousands of advanced tickets. They have built a massive specialist research enclosure. They have grown the thing to full size over several months. They have even sold the sponsorship rights to it. But at no point has the dinosaur training expert heard anything about it?


The few good bits come from the references to the original. Returning to the old site, the computerised gene character on the videos, some of the original dinosaurs on the holo-images, the Jurassic Park t-shirt*, letting out the original T-Rex at the end. Those bits are all good but purely from a nostalgia perspective. None of them actually add to the story.


Overall a disappointing 6 out of 10.

*Actually that one is a let down as it is over-played. As is Larry the character as a whole who is just in there as meaningless comic relief.