Dinosaurs! Who would have thought Steven Spielberg could re-create these long extinct creatures in Jurassic Park 1, in such a magnificent way, perfectly capturing its grandeur. 2 sequels followed, a reboot/sequel of sorts (Jurassic World), and now here we are with the sequel to that reboot.
Source: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Universal Pictures
Let's get this out first. This movie is your typical "popcorn movie", meaning no expectations of any out-of-this-world story, compelling characters, great and/or realistic story-telling etc. All you'd expect is interesting dinosaurs, great CGI, and an overall enjoyable movie, where the "enjoyment" differs from person to person.
Jurassic World 2 hits the similar beats. You have the cool dinosaurs (CGI is quite good), characters mumbling some dinosaurs and DNA stuff, entertaining action sequences, some 2nd villain who has to hate the dinosaurs and our heroes so that you root for him to die, our heroes escaping from dangerous situations (few were a little far-fetched though), and a main villain, who well, does villainy stuff. What this movie does give apart from the above, is a few intense scenes (not scary per se), few relationships improved, a cool ending (probably better than JW1), and made the CGI dinosaurs shine when they were on screen.
There were lot of improvements made compared to the 1st, limiting the number of unnecessary characters and their story arcs, where in JW1, a lot of time was wasted on many of those. The movie gets to the point within a few minutes or so, giving you right what you came for. I was glued to the screen the entire time, not very thrilling per se, just being pure fun. Whenever the dinosaurs were on screen, it was awesome! Definitely better than JW1, although nothing can capture that magic, excitement and pure joy of seeing the dinos for the 1st time in Jurassic Park 1, where they were really well designed, for a time such as 1993. Also hey, no John Williams score for this one....
Certain aspects what I liked, but wished they'd explored more, was whether the dinosaurs should be given their own habitat? Should the U.S. government interfere and save the de-extinct creatures, or should humans allow the act of God to once more wipe out the animals? Can the dinosaurs co-exist with the humans? It developed the relationship between Chris Pratt and Blue, the velociraptor, to farther heights, making you care for it. Some scenes genuinely made you feel the connection between these two, the groundwork for which was established in JW1. The humans, well, ehh... The on-again, off-again relationship between Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) & Owen (Chris Pratt) still didn't seem to work (script is to be blamed, not the actors), the sidekicks were kinda okay, and rest of the cast did a decent job. Well we are here for the dinosaurs, right?
Overall, JW2 is a solid enjoyable flick, that mixes good action sequences with a few thrills. Dinosaurs could have been given little more screen time, a few cliches could have been avoided, villains could have been a little better. A one-time watch. Being an improvement over JW1, I'd give it a 7/10.
(Kaala review would be up soon..... I hope...)
Source: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Universal Pictures
Let's get this out first. This movie is your typical "popcorn movie", meaning no expectations of any out-of-this-world story, compelling characters, great and/or realistic story-telling etc. All you'd expect is interesting dinosaurs, great CGI, and an overall enjoyable movie, where the "enjoyment" differs from person to person.
Jurassic World 2 hits the similar beats. You have the cool dinosaurs (CGI is quite good), characters mumbling some dinosaurs and DNA stuff, entertaining action sequences, some 2nd villain who has to hate the dinosaurs and our heroes so that you root for him to die, our heroes escaping from dangerous situations (few were a little far-fetched though), and a main villain, who well, does villainy stuff. What this movie does give apart from the above, is a few intense scenes (not scary per se), few relationships improved, a cool ending (probably better than JW1), and made the CGI dinosaurs shine when they were on screen.
There were lot of improvements made compared to the 1st, limiting the number of unnecessary characters and their story arcs, where in JW1, a lot of time was wasted on many of those. The movie gets to the point within a few minutes or so, giving you right what you came for. I was glued to the screen the entire time, not very thrilling per se, just being pure fun. Whenever the dinosaurs were on screen, it was awesome! Definitely better than JW1, although nothing can capture that magic, excitement and pure joy of seeing the dinos for the 1st time in Jurassic Park 1, where they were really well designed, for a time such as 1993. Also hey, no John Williams score for this one....
Certain aspects what I liked, but wished they'd explored more, was whether the dinosaurs should be given their own habitat? Should the U.S. government interfere and save the de-extinct creatures, or should humans allow the act of God to once more wipe out the animals? Can the dinosaurs co-exist with the humans? It developed the relationship between Chris Pratt and Blue, the velociraptor, to farther heights, making you care for it. Some scenes genuinely made you feel the connection between these two, the groundwork for which was established in JW1. The humans, well, ehh... The on-again, off-again relationship between Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) & Owen (Chris Pratt) still didn't seem to work (script is to be blamed, not the actors), the sidekicks were kinda okay, and rest of the cast did a decent job. Well we are here for the dinosaurs, right?
Overall, JW2 is a solid enjoyable flick, that mixes good action sequences with a few thrills. Dinosaurs could have been given little more screen time, a few cliches could have been avoided, villains could have been a little better. A one-time watch. Being an improvement over JW1, I'd give it a 7/10.
(Kaala review would be up soon..... I hope...)
Good review as usual. I am planning on seeing the movie.
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