Day
180 Jurassic
World: Fallen Kingdom [2018]
Screenplay Derek Connolly & Colin Trevorrow
Director J. A. Bayona
Cinematography Óscar Faura
Music Michael
Giacchino
Leads Chris
Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Rodriguez,
James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, B. D. Wong, Jeff Goldblum, Isabella
Sermon
Production Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, The
Kennedy/Marshall Company, Legendary Pictures, Perfect World Pictures
IMDb 6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes 51%
Jurassic World and this film are the types of film you
need to watch with a good friend so that you can laugh at it whilst enjoying
the dinosaurs eating people and the odd tingle of nostalgia when there is a
reference to the original franchise. Both films are good in no sense of that
word. To give him his due Bayona has made a far better film than Trevorrow did. The first film was laughable, it’s Bryce Dallas Howard trying to
convince us she wouldn’t have taken her heels off for two hours. In Fallen Kingdom she has been to a Clarks and they have recommended that if she’s going
to a tropical country where she’ll be hiking she probably needs some tough
boots. Although they clearly felt it was ok to keep the cheesy one liners, much
of the film was enjoyable, with plenty of action and just the right amount of
dinosaurs and people killing each other and their own. There’s another boutique
dinosaur, grown from the DNA of the trendy killing machine in the previous
film. Faura got it right and nearly had me in tears with a shot
that involves volcanic ash, a double XL dino and an abandoning that puts the
Home Alone films to shame. I could take you all for a walk through the plot
holes and the stupidities that crop up but where would be the fun in that?
You’ll find them for yourselves. The long and short of it is that they would
have to do a bloody good job to make a film that came anywhere near the
original three in my books. Not only were they instant classics, but even their
gaffs are better than these Hollywood plastic movies. Where else are you going
to see a T-Rex saunter through a metal wall and fence that are seemingly the
same level as the road, when not a minute later a car is pushed back through
the very same hole and there is a 30 foot drop the other side? I nearly forgot
to say that I was very happy to see Jeff Goldblum make a comeback from the
original franchise, only for him to get barely a minute of screen time. That
alone justifies the less than pretty rating I am giving this film.
Acting 2 / 4
Writing 2 / 4
Cinematography 3 / 4
Music 2.5 / 4
HWF rating 2 / 4
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