Plot hole: Being transported from the west of Costa Rica all the way to Northern California by ship would take about a week. Are we to assume that Owen, Claire and Franklin were staying put in the back of the truck the whole time undetected? They would have to eat and use the restroom, at least.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
5 reviews
Directed by: J.A. Bayona
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ted Levine
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Probably the worst Jurassic Park movie yet. At least the third movie had the sense to have the characters go to a dinosaur-filled island for a rescue mission while tricking the main character into going against his best wishes. This film merely repeats the foolishness exhibited by the characters in the previous film, apparently being too dense to realise that creating dinosaurs is a bad idea.
Almost everything about this movie is mind-numbingly stupid and its justification for setting up a sequel is extremely contrived.
I rented this movie from Red Box.
I'm really on the fens about this one. I would put it between 2 and 3 stars if I could. If the rating system was on a 10 star level, I would have put it at around a 4 or 5.
The Jurassic has definitely had it's ups and downs, and while this not the worst of the bunch by far... it still lacks a lot. The characters are bland, and Chris Pratt is not given much room to shine in a dull and uninteresting character. And with his character being the second best in the film... that's a problem.
The story has begun to devolve to much into a cartoonish like battle off good dinos vs bad dinos with stagnate humans padding the run time.
It was a bit refreshing when I saw the military leader guy not being portrayed in the stereotypical gruff military colonel fashion that his type of character is usually portrayed as. But then that was ruined by him turning on the main character. If he was the stereotype, the betrayal would have been expected. So it happening like it did actually was unexpected... but not in a good way. It came off as an eye rolling disappointment of "Oh great so it is that kind of character after all" just when I was starting to like the guy.
The visuals in the story are great, and I won't shy away from admitting the fact that I almost shed a tear on the Long Neck on the lava dock scene... you know the one. But the whole movie felt like a rushed, half-assed segway trailer to part 3.
Mistake Status: Searched partly when rented. No current plans to revisit but may happen in the future if I decide to do the Jurassic Park series
A good film but a few problems for my liking.
1) Too many references to the first film. The Indoraptor clicking it's claw on the floor. Maisie using the dumbwaiter to hide from a raptor, The T-Rex doing it's traditional roar. Even the rebooting the system that puts Owen and Claire in trouble. It's been done before.
2) As another review states, The whole movie is just characters making the same stupid mistakes as they did in the first film.
3) The whole Lockwood estate makes no sense. How would anyone be able to keep that many dinosaurs there and not attract any attention.
Good points:
CGI is exceptionally brilliant with good acting by a few characters.
A few good action scenes.
Not one to re-watch straight away but still good to watch.
Really frightening and intense start to finish! Intro scene would give kids nightmares for days and the ending is enough to give anyone chills! Spectacular!
Liked it very much.
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Suggested correction: Maybe they did have to sneak around but the director thought making us watch Owen sneaking away at night to take a whiz wasn't really important to the plot.
It was established in the plot's timeline that the ship travelled overnight. A ship like this travels at about 12 knots and would take for them about 9 days to complete that voyage.
Claire Dearing: Be careful, okay?
Owen Grady: If I don't make it back, remember... you're the one who made me come. I'll be all right. (00:30:40)
Trivia: The way that the Indoraptor portrays itself behind the window and touches the floor with its claw in Maisie's room is a nod to the original Jurassic Park. (01:44:10)
Question: Who is Maisey a clone of? I know her 'mother' died in a car crash but when she asked if her mother visited the park a long time ago, Lockwood answered with "a long time ago" and the camera pans out to a model of the original park.
Answer: Masie is a clone of Benjamin Lockwood's daughter. Benjamin's daughter did die in a car accident and when that happened, he wanted to clone her. But John Hammond was against the idea of cloning humans (which is why the partnership broke up). Once John Hammond died, Benjamin went ahead and cloned his daughter. Only, because of the amount of time that passed and his age, Benjamin tells people Masie is his granddaughter and the cover story is Masie's mother died in a car accident, which is why he's raising her. However, I do not know if Benjamin's actual daughter was also named Masie or if that's a new name. I got the impression that Benjamin's actual daughter died at a young age, and since he wanted to clone her right away, he kept the fact that his young daughter died a secret. So as far as most people knew, Benjamin's daughter grew up and had a child and then Benjamin tells people his (adult) daughter died in a car accident.
I think what they mean is if she was a character from the original movies somehow.
His daughter was not an earlier character in the other films. Lockwood is just reflecting on his late daughter, who he loved and misses. Like John Hammond's grandchildren, Lockwood's daughter likely visited the park at some point. His glancing at the original Jurassic Park model seems to be a reference to the cloning procedure that produced Maisie.
In the original movies, no, she's not a character (at least what I can recall). Benjamin Lockwood doesn't even appear in any of the original Jurassic Park trilogy films (I'm not familiar with the books enough to know if any Lockwoods appear in those stories though). In "Fallen Kingdom" it's implied Lockwood's daughter visited the island where Jurassic Park was built, meaning she would have done so prior to the events of the first "Jurassic Park" film.
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