Day 180 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom



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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