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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
6.5/10
A sequel to the franchise that I'm not sure anyone asked for in the first place. If they asked for this one too, shame on them. Chris Pratt is thrust back at us, fresh from some Star Lord success and along with Bryce Dallas Howard, they bring a storyline that will either feel like any of the other Jurassic Park movies, or something completely different. By the looks of the trailer, it's going to be a new chapter in the franchise. This time, it looks like the islands are breaking apart and some dinosaurs are taken back to the mainland to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, along with them creating some newer hybrids for the hell of it. I was always a fan of the earlier movies and was a little excited when they decided to look into Jurassic World but this new creating side of it is starting to get too much.
Quickly running through this story, it didn't really hold any surprises from what the trailer offered us. The movie is based around three years after the first Jurassic World. A team has landed to take some DNA from the Indominus Rex corpse and after narrowly making it out, the massive Mosasaurus makes it out into the open ocean. Back on the mainland, we are inside a courtroom where Ian Malcolm is discussing with the U.S. Senate as to whether the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar should be saved from an impending volcano eruption. He is in the reasoning that nature is correcting itself by killing them all after Hammond going against God's plans all those years ago. Meanwhile, Claire, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, has created a Dinosaur Protection Group with the plan to save all of the creatures from the island. After the Senate reject the rescue mission, Claire is contacted by Benjamin Lockwood, who was Hammond's partner back in the day of cloning. She heads off to meet him on his ranch, along with his aide, Eli Mills, played by Rafe Spall, who I've seen about in a number of movies. Straight away, you get a feeling about him, one that isn't good. In the background, we see a little girl scuttling about. There are always children in these movies. Lockwood and Mills want to relocate the dinosaurs onto a new island and want Claire to help. One thing they know though and that's about Blue. She will be hard to capture so Claire needs to recruit Owen once more. Owen, played by Pratt, instantly brings some humour to the movie and they discuss what happened with their relationship, instantly answering those questions for the audience.
Arriving at the island, they need to get to a bunker in order to reactivate the park's dino trackers. Once they find Blue, she is shot by the mercenaries, just before we think that Owen will calm her and then he is shot with a tranq. Zia, one of the assistants is set the task of keeping Blue alive, whilst Claire and a guy named Franklin are locked inside the bunker as the mercs all change side to bad. The Volcano starts ripping the place apart and a dinosaur attack leads to Claire and Franklin escaping before being reunited with Owen. As the hills fill with lava, ash hits the sky and the ground starts to shake, Owen puts Claire and Franklin inside a gyro-sphere from the first movie. As the dinosaurs run past to escape the lava, they are also running from predators and one sets his sights on Owen. That's until he is saved by the good old fashioned T-Rex bringing back our love of the first. One bad thing is that this scene was already ruined by putting it into the trailer. There are some things that should be left for the movie.
The gyro-sphere ends up getting knocked off a cliff with jumping dinosaurs and Owen dives afterward to save the pair. Doing so, they all wash up on a beach and head back to the dock that they arrived on. They sneak aboard a ship, reuniting with Zia and seeing nothing but captured dinosaurs, as the ship leaves for the mainland. Looking back, they see the lava reaching the end of the dock and creating nothing but red smoke. A Brachiosaurus is seen in distress as the lava hits her and she ends up on two legs falling back into the smoke and out of sight. That was probably the hardest scene I've had to watch in a move in a long time! I love dinosaurs.
Back on the mainland and on Benjamin's ranch, his Granddaughter witnesses Mills planning and action for the dinosaurs along with an auctioneer named Gunnar Eversol, who's an ugly bastard. They have also created a new hybrid called the Indoraptor. Dr. Wu plans on using the DNA from Blue and the Indominus Rex to create an even better version. Maisie runs to tell her Grandfather but when he confronts Mills, he's easily murdered due to his ill health. Mills then covers this up by acting as if the illness had finally gotten the best of him. Owen and Claire are discovered in the mansion and locked inside a cell in the basement. Zia and Franklin have evaded capture and as the auction begins, Owen and Clair escape, using a dinosaur and find Maisie, who shows them how to get to the auction. Owen opens a cage and sends it into the auction room, causing carnage and a lot of running. The Endorapter is shot dead and the lead merc heads into the cage to get a tooth as a trophy. We know this isn't going to end well, we haven't seen this dinosaur open the bedroom door and attack Maisie yet. We saw this in the trailer. The dino is playing dead, wakes up and kills the merc and the auctioneer.
On the run for Owen and Claire, Mills reveals that Maisie is actually a clone. She was created by Hammond for Lockwood when he lost his daughter. This was why the old friends ended their friendship. Lockwood was against human cloning. I didn't want this kind of film. I wanted dinosaurs, not human clones! As the Indoraptor is hunting throughout the mansion, they are saved in the bedroom scene by Blue, who was freed by Zia and Franklin. They head up onto the roof, where the Indoraptor is too heavy for the glass and falls through, impaling itself on a Triceratops skull.
It's not coming back this time. The unsold dinosaurs are stuck downstairs in their cells as a poisonous gas is killing them. They are all freed by Maisie, who opens the cages and garage doors, releasing them on the world, against what Owen wants. Mills is on the escape with the Indominous DNA but is eaten by the T-Rex and Carnotaurus. The movie ends with a new Senate hearing, as Ian Malcolm explains the humans must now learn to co-exist with dinosaurs. There is even an after credits to the movie as we see some Pteranodons land on the fake Eiffel Tower in Vegas. Here we go!
I'm not too sure what to say about this movie. We've come to know Pratt and Dallas Howard in this franchise now but even with the chemistry and humour that both could bring, it is often forgotten when you think of the turn the storyline is taking. I'm all for dinosaur storylines and bringing them back onto our screen but they may have gone as far as possible now. They have made it to the mainland, once again but this time it could be absolute carnage if we get a third. One thing I think they should look at is setting the next many years in the future, give the dinosaurs a chance to settle in and not just a few years. Get some new blood onto the screen and give us something a little fresher. The way that Owen and Blue looked at each other at the end of the movie reminded me of Rise of the Planet of the Apes with James Franco and Caesar. I swear to God, if Blue ends up talking by the next movie, I'm done with the franchise. The graphics looked great and so did the setting, for the first half of the movie anyway. I didn't like the second half of the movie at all, it was ruined by the storyline and it wasn't for me. It didn't seem fresh and was very recycled. If they carry on with this franchise, they need to stick to what they know best and what always draws a great reaction from the audience. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
Arriving at the island, they need to get to a bunker in order to reactivate the park's dino trackers. Once they find Blue, she is shot by the mercenaries, just before we think that Owen will calm her and then he is shot with a tranq. Zia, one of the assistants is set the task of keeping Blue alive, whilst Claire and a guy named Franklin are locked inside the bunker as the mercs all change side to bad. The Volcano starts ripping the place apart and a dinosaur attack leads to Claire and Franklin escaping before being reunited with Owen. As the hills fill with lava, ash hits the sky and the ground starts to shake, Owen puts Claire and Franklin inside a gyro-sphere from the first movie. As the dinosaurs run past to escape the lava, they are also running from predators and one sets his sights on Owen. That's until he is saved by the good old fashioned T-Rex bringing back our love of the first. One bad thing is that this scene was already ruined by putting it into the trailer. There are some things that should be left for the movie.
The gyro-sphere ends up getting knocked off a cliff with jumping dinosaurs and Owen dives afterward to save the pair. Doing so, they all wash up on a beach and head back to the dock that they arrived on. They sneak aboard a ship, reuniting with Zia and seeing nothing but captured dinosaurs, as the ship leaves for the mainland. Looking back, they see the lava reaching the end of the dock and creating nothing but red smoke. A Brachiosaurus is seen in distress as the lava hits her and she ends up on two legs falling back into the smoke and out of sight. That was probably the hardest scene I've had to watch in a move in a long time! I love dinosaurs.
Back on the mainland and on Benjamin's ranch, his Granddaughter witnesses Mills planning and action for the dinosaurs along with an auctioneer named Gunnar Eversol, who's an ugly bastard. They have also created a new hybrid called the Indoraptor. Dr. Wu plans on using the DNA from Blue and the Indominus Rex to create an even better version. Maisie runs to tell her Grandfather but when he confronts Mills, he's easily murdered due to his ill health. Mills then covers this up by acting as if the illness had finally gotten the best of him. Owen and Claire are discovered in the mansion and locked inside a cell in the basement. Zia and Franklin have evaded capture and as the auction begins, Owen and Clair escape, using a dinosaur and find Maisie, who shows them how to get to the auction. Owen opens a cage and sends it into the auction room, causing carnage and a lot of running. The Endorapter is shot dead and the lead merc heads into the cage to get a tooth as a trophy. We know this isn't going to end well, we haven't seen this dinosaur open the bedroom door and attack Maisie yet. We saw this in the trailer. The dino is playing dead, wakes up and kills the merc and the auctioneer.
On the run for Owen and Claire, Mills reveals that Maisie is actually a clone. She was created by Hammond for Lockwood when he lost his daughter. This was why the old friends ended their friendship. Lockwood was against human cloning. I didn't want this kind of film. I wanted dinosaurs, not human clones! As the Indoraptor is hunting throughout the mansion, they are saved in the bedroom scene by Blue, who was freed by Zia and Franklin. They head up onto the roof, where the Indoraptor is too heavy for the glass and falls through, impaling itself on a Triceratops skull.
It's not coming back this time. The unsold dinosaurs are stuck downstairs in their cells as a poisonous gas is killing them. They are all freed by Maisie, who opens the cages and garage doors, releasing them on the world, against what Owen wants. Mills is on the escape with the Indominous DNA but is eaten by the T-Rex and Carnotaurus. The movie ends with a new Senate hearing, as Ian Malcolm explains the humans must now learn to co-exist with dinosaurs. There is even an after credits to the movie as we see some Pteranodons land on the fake Eiffel Tower in Vegas. Here we go!
I'm not too sure what to say about this movie. We've come to know Pratt and Dallas Howard in this franchise now but even with the chemistry and humour that both could bring, it is often forgotten when you think of the turn the storyline is taking. I'm all for dinosaur storylines and bringing them back onto our screen but they may have gone as far as possible now. They have made it to the mainland, once again but this time it could be absolute carnage if we get a third. One thing I think they should look at is setting the next many years in the future, give the dinosaurs a chance to settle in and not just a few years. Get some new blood onto the screen and give us something a little fresher. The way that Owen and Blue looked at each other at the end of the movie reminded me of Rise of the Planet of the Apes with James Franco and Caesar. I swear to God, if Blue ends up talking by the next movie, I'm done with the franchise. The graphics looked great and so did the setting, for the first half of the movie anyway. I didn't like the second half of the movie at all, it was ruined by the storyline and it wasn't for me. It didn't seem fresh and was very recycled. If they carry on with this franchise, they need to stick to what they know best and what always draws a great reaction from the audience. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
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