It is fair to say that Chris Pratt was underused on the sequel. Bryce Dallas-Howard did most of the ass-kicking and I realized a week after watching it that was deliberate.
We get more action as dinosaurs are going global. The desserted island, now at the brink of destruction as a volcano threatens to erupt, we get entangled to the false narrative of the mission to save them, instead it showed once again the main plot of all Jurassic movies: humans fuck it up all the damn time.
The visual effects are bad. Here, we get close-ups of dinosaurs hence we get to see animatronics. Although the movie falls into the cliche of predictability (on all action-driven film actually), it’s nevertheless more entertaining than ‘world.’ It is also more dramatic, tries to get dark at times, and really dark, sure nothing beats a dinosaur chase on pouring rain.
Overall, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom feels like a filler and a setup for all the Jurassic World movies we’re all supposed to watch in the future.
Grade: 3/5 stars
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