If We Don’t Learn From The Past We’ll All Get Killed By A Dinosaur. Jurassic World Movie Review

  
Although the sequels of the Classic Jurassic Park are absolute failures, Jurassic World ignited doubt when was announced and worried people when the first trailer appeared, when it looked like we will be bombarded by CGI and nothing more. 
The CGI was indeed fantastic and although it wasn’t bad but also not good enough, the carefulness and care was felt all throughout the film. There was the attempt not to fail and the audience felt it. 
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard was both underused. They weren’t enough. It feels like they did nothing. It was all about the dinosaurs and the human inability to grasp the fact that you cannot control everything. And that includes a genetically modified dinosaur. 
It was nothing compared to the classic but it pays homage to it anyway. It was 20 years after that tragic incident and you know what they say, people don’t really learn from their mistakes so history did repeat itself. 
The dinosaurs wasn’t that scary. The one dinosaur that caused everything was just loud. Humans have found an ally too with the raptors which is Avenger-like in my opinion. The real deal here was the final scene, where it was so satisfying, not to the audience but to that dinosaur who for the first time, is free. 
Visually thrilling and exciting, Jurassic World pretty much lived to the hype, but Pratt and Howard conjures no chemistry and their presence was nothing compared to the dinosaurs which is what the movie is about anyway. Don’t mess with the extinct stuff is the lesson here. 

Grade: 3 stars

Insidious Chapter 3: James Wan screwed us over. Hard.

Although he didn’t direct this movie, it feels appropriate to blame him for this movie’s demise. Insidious was good. Insidious 2 was somehow okay but sloppy. He passed the torch to someone else then boom. Disaster. 
I didn’t expect it to be good anyhow but a part of me hoped it will surprise me, or shock me at least. Nope. James Wan, the blockbuster director, somehow made sure it disappoints, and it did. So much like how he screwed us over too for Anabelle. 
Set as a prequel for all the “Insidiouses,” we find Elise pretty much alive, with a predictable back story, and of how she met the two sidekick she had for the first two movies. The main character Quinn, with the most predictable back story too, managed to summon a violent spirit and quite frankly, she deserved what happened to her. 
You see, you just don’t talk alone to yourself and call out to the dead.  And the most disastrous thing of all here is how she became the most abused protagonist on a horror movie  ever. She should be filing a lawsuit. She got herself ran over by a car, break both legs and break her neck all in 24 hours. Instead of rooting for her, you’d feel bad for her. 
You’ve seen all the scares here. Nothing new. The only thing you can get out from this is if you watched it with friends, you’ll have fun. Something to mock with them after. 
The story is confused. And cheesy. Confused because it is shoving the eerie atmosphere down your throat then put in something funny out of the blue. It managed to become a comedy when Elise and co goes in. Then cheesy because the grieving father of Quinn who suffered a loss too, doesn’t want to lose his child to some vengeful ghost. This the “I am not gonna lose you” moment. 

  
Everything was okay at the end of course. But the most infuriating thing here is the tease of the fourth Insidious movie and you will be like “come on!” 
Unscary, inconsistent and honestly quite pathetic, Insidious Chapter 3 might be the end game for the series if the producers will not wise up, or unless James Wan will come back and save it. A good popcorn movie for friends, but if you’re looking for horror, you can get more from Fifty Shades of Grey. 

Grade: 1 star

San Andreas Movie Review

  You have seen this before. The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Armageddon and on every Michael Bay film. Chaos everywhere, rubble left and right. Explosions here and there and a tsunami at the end. That is what the “strongest quake in history” can do. Set again in San Francisco, now I’m not sure why this city been suffering so much of late from Hollywood.                         You got it right. San Andreas fault’s is at fault. The entire west coast suffered quakes all throughout the movie. Visual effects are top notch. Something you’ve come to expect from Warner Brothers and co. It’s basically 2012 all over again. The characters miraculously make it out from tight spots for dramatic purposes. Actually everything in this movie is cliche. You’d know what will happen next. There will be this cheesy dialogue then the earth trembles after. Someone kisses then something falls off the sky. It’s quite pathetic to be honest.                                                

   The Rock is the obvious choice for box office purposes, otherwise this movie will become a complete flop. Now, I’m not sure about this but I keep on wondering why Alexandra Daddario’s breasts are all over the place. Pretty sure it’s not just me, but there are moments I felt it’s being shown for a reason. You see her running over there but the costume designer made sure the boobs will be trembling too along with the ground. It’s pointless, mean and unnecessary. San Andreas brings the fault line to shame and we will probably be punished with a real quake because of this. Cheesy, poorly acted but visually stunning, San Andreas offered nothing new. We already know we are all going to die, thank you very much.                             Grade: 2 stars