Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

2018 • 128 minutes

About this movie

It's been three years since theme park and luxury resort, Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

Ratings and reviews

*Spoilers* It's not a terrible movie, but it's certainly not a GREAT one either. The points I liked: The cinematography, the camera angles worked well. The effects are phenomenal. The main actors, Chris and Bryce did a good job in their performance. I like the addition of personalities to the dinosaurs like Blue. The Brachiosaurus scene was emotional, and The villains, while cartoony are believable at the same time. I can totally see people auctioning off dinosaurs for maybe agricultural, medical, and recreational purposes. I like the ideas this film presents. I also love the Indoraptor in this film, design and personality, especially when it smiled. Face it, that thing's no dinosaur...it's a MONSTER! The points I didn't like: The overall execution and writing. Colin is a great director, but his writing could use some improvement. And it shows here. Some characters make dumb decisions, like when the poachers comes inside the Indoraptor cage without at least locking it! Some ideas make no sense, like using the T-rex blood to help save Blue. And the little girl, while I liked her and her acting wasn't so bad, was not well written. Though I will say I do like the idea that she's a clone, though it could've been explored...which is another dislike, the potential ideas behind the girl and the Indoraptor not being explored enough. Still, the strong points are very strong. If you're not a Jurassic park fan, or didnt like the first 1st Jurassic World,I'd avoid this one. But if you do like it, and want to see some Dino action, great effects and score, and want to see this franchise take a new direction, then I would absolutely give it at least a one time viewing in cinema. And if you want to see it again, I'd wait till it comes out on DVD, Blu-ray, and one line for streaming. As it's own, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom presents gorgeous effects and interesting ideas, as well as a new direction the franchise needs, but is devoid of a good execution. Those are.my thoughts on the film; Great idea executed poorly.

Jurassic World (2015) was the movie that proves that dinosaurs are not monsters of fictional myth and legend, they are creatures or animals that lived millions of years ago, and they were on earth long before we arrived. Now, in this sequel called "Fallen Kingdom", things get more personal and more compelling, and it takes itself gravely; This sequel embraces the same messages and themes from it's predecessor (nature and science can't be controlled, and animals are unpredictable), but this time, it is good-vs-evil over animal conservation; saving the species from going to extinction due to habitat destruction from a volcano eruption. Things get even more serious when a group of ambitious buisnessmen led by the insane financial director named Elijah Mills decided to sell the endangered dinosaurs for huge riches, including designing a ferocious 28 million dollar prototype dinosaur called the Indoraptor. This concept is inspiring and pleasing, and for me, the story is surprisingly easy to follow, with some smart script-writing or maybe just the writing in general. The mood of the film provides effective gravity to add more to it's genre to make "Fallen Kingdom" dynamic; it is a serious drama, a gothic horror movie, a thriller, an unintentional comedy, and a disaster film all wrapped up into one. The direction by Spanish film director (J.A. Bayona) contains clever ideas; from the timing, the locations, and the emphasis that he brings to the emotion to make it feel real. As I said before, the writing is clever; from the script, the plain yet genius dialogue, and the artistic screenplay. Let's not forget the cinematography; breathtaking imagery that will never leave my mind, especially when the dinosaurs are roaring at the sky. Every character has both brains, brawn, hearts and are part of the personality of the whole movie; Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Howard) and even Ian (Jeff Goldblum) are back, not to mention that Own has a sweet appealing video about himself playing with his Velociraptors when they were babies. Now the new characters are introduced; Zia (Daniella Pineda) is a Paleo-Vet who is a member of dino protection group, Franklin (Justice Smith) is an information systems technician who may have an easily fearful and nervous personality, but he does care for all dinosaurs and is a member of the team, Maisie (Isabella Sermon) is a young girl who is intelligent and big-hearted legal ward following the death of her parents. All of these are the definition of supporting characters, and they are all very well-utilized. There are even more dinosaurs in this film, from the Allosaurus, the Sinoceratops, the Baryonyx, and even the Carnotaurus. The Indoraptor in particular is one awesome creature with it's threatening presence and lethal hardware. There is even some information about this beast too. The third act of the film has a thrilling showdown with the Indoraptor at the Lockwood manor, and it's well-structured and highly imaginative with tense atmosphere, as if it was a terrifying dragon terrorizing a cursed gothic castle. Speaking of Lockwood manor, the Lockwood manor is an imposing mansion with excellent construction with different rooms; the museum parlor, the subbasement, the Auctioneer room, an office, and two bedrooms. The composer (Michael Giacchino) strongly compliments the whole movie with an emotionally powerful and raucous music score, and it is just as superb as his first score. In conclusion: This superb sequel is a brilliant gem of it's own genre; part drama, part horror, part thriller - all dynamic power with serious resonance and realistic themes. Not to mention that this sequel is on par with it's predecessor that was released four years ago. Highly Recommended!

Taking into account the loss of human life and the billions of dollars in property damage brought about by cloned dinosaurs, it begs the question; Are you people stupid? There are countless extinct species of fauna, why on Earth would anyone choose to revive the ones that can eat you? So far in these epic disasters of Jurassic folly no one has seemed to learn a lesson, except of course for Jeff Goldblum's character. Which brings us to the burning question. When faced with the mysteries of paleontology or the morality and ethics of cloning species gone extinct by natures hand, do you truly need a mathematician? And, why is Chris Pratt trying to train Velociraptors? Sure they're cute, but sooner or later they are going to attack the main exhibit at your theme park. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, follows the same formula as its 4 predecessors. A really bad idea of monetizing the revival of giant reptiles is made worse by some shady, deals, and hey if a couple of kids can be endangered along the way? That's not just a movie but an entire franchise.