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Not coherent, silly lines, silly scenario, childish

It's probably too late to mention this, but do NOT watch the trailers. They spoil way, way too much. Many of the movie's best sequences, or at least fragments of them, are shown in the trailers. Several times I found myself thinking while watching the movie, "I know where this is going because I saw a clip in the trailer."

Now I'll give a quick plot overview of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

After witnessing the carnage, chaos and death that ensued during the theme park's meltdown in the last movie, you may be wondering why any human would ever set foot on the island again. It's a very reasonable thought.

In brief, all the dinosaurs on the island are going to become extinct after the island's volcano erupts. Nature is clearly trying to tell us something, right? Just let nature correct the mistake humans made in bringing back the most dangerous predators to ever exist. While we're thinking about the volcano, I'm also curious about why the founders of the park ever chose to build on an island with an active volcano that could wipe out all nearby life. Seems like poor planning. Also poor planning, is endangering human lives with a rescue mission to an island with an erupting volcano.

Against all logic, operation: Save the dinos has its supporters. An animal protection group, headed by a less steely and less robotic Clair Deering (Bryce Dallas Howard), convinces a billionaire to fund a mission to rescue the dinosaurs.

But, oh no! The team needs help tracking Blue, the last surviving raptor. Cue raptor trainer extraordinaire Owen Grady (Chris Pratt). Those two are joined by a paleo-veterinarian (apparently a real thing) and an annoying tech guy who is afraid of absolutely everything, including bugs and planes. As you can imagine, he does not hold up well around dinosaurs.

I'm not sure why the scaredy-pants character was ever written into this movie. He's meant to provide comic relief, but isn't that why Chris Pratt is here? Pratt is actually funny, and he's wasted in this movie, relegated to a puppet of a character, who showcases none of the charismatic cool he demonstrated in the prior film.

Beyond the obvious character development flaws, there is one unavoidable issue: I don't agree with their mission. How can I root for these heroes if they're doing something indisputably foolish? I love animals, but these particular animals have killed countless humans and will surely kill more. I cannot support risking more human lives for this mission.

That's not the movie's only problem. For one, the directing is spotty. A few sequences will wow the viewers, as long as they haven't already seen these clips in the trailers. Director J.A. Bayona has a background in horror that becomes evident in this movie. He creates dingy lighting and makes clever use of shadows as dinosaurs approach their victims. When the dinosaurs fully reveal themselves, Bayona knows to focus the camera on teeth, claws and eyes--the scariest parts of the creatures.

Some of the action is legitimately scary. Other times, it's cartoonish. One scene in particular feels like something you would see in Scooby-Doo.

The issue with the action, other than being occasionally cartoonish, is how often in leans on callbacks to past Jurassic movies. Sure, the concepts are fun and well-executed, but we have seen them all before.

Here we are at the fifth movie in the franchise, and the filmmakers are clearly out of fresh ideas. They're banking on fans flocking to see the movie solely because it has dinosaurs. I demand something more from my movies, and you should too.

The positives:

• Ted Levine is back! (In a movie I mean. I know this is his first Jurassic Rodeo). Always love seeing Levine being as slimy as possible and he doesn't disappoint in his screentime.
• The particularly schlocky bits in the third act (and maybe a little in the first) that had me holding back laughing so loudly in a packed theater.
• Some of the horror movie parts look good.

The negatives:

• uh... Did you see that Colin Trevorrow wrote this?

Heres the deal with Jurassic World: Live at Pompeii (and then later Jurassic Castle) - this is even within the scope of one of these movies so patently unbelievable and ludicrous. This involves people who were already fairly dumb in the previous 'World' rushing in the final days (nay, the *FINAL DAY*) of a volcano erupting on this island to get all the dinosaurs off because oh look one perdy Brontosaurus and...

It is so brain-dead that one feels partially lobotomized in order for this to be alright. It's lazy and idiotic script and even quality of acting I'd expect in Mega-Croc vs Octosaur or whatever on SyFy channel, not a Steven Spielberg produced joint (but on the other hand, the man does have his name on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. So...)

So when the premise is already too far gone, the rest follows... Well, there's a heap-load of Evil Corporate Business assholes, and a little girl who is (gasp) much more than she seems, but not in any ways that makes her too extraordinary, which... Is alright actually, as I could see good chunks of this - when Bayona is present and choreographing the horror set pieces - traumatizing some children, which is fine, and she's the point of empathy.

... And then that ending happens, which.... What? WHAT? The Critic parody of Jurassic Park 2 was as real as a friggin' Maysles doc compared to this. Theres schlock, and then there's lameness and illogic Roger Corman would say is too much. JurASSic World.

I love most of the others but, this was absolutely idiotic. She could care less about dinosaurs in the last film, now she an activist for dinosaurs. This had no plot. I'm astonished someone thought this was a great film. I gave it 4 stars because of the franchise and dinosaur CG.

How many times can they keep doing the same basic script about man made dinosaurs and the human greed? Same basic plot over and over. This one was probably the most lame of the franchise. Let the franchise go extinct already! The effects are only good part of the movie. But that's probably no surprise.

Lame writing and what a lousy script. Even the pyroclastic flow from the volcanic eruption was looking child's play. The A-team (our heroes) can avoid debris and dinosours falling on them while the B-Team (villains) can't hide from them. No need to watch it in IMAX which makes images are larger than life and the 3D pop-ups. Save your money and watch it on a normal theater only if you are a hard-core action buff viewer!

Audiences gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale...Sheesh! I wonder if the third installment will mange to fool the audience.

It honestly felt like the same exact things happened as in the first Jurassic World film, but they just changed locations. It was all very predictable, and the new characters that were introduced didn't seem to add much to the film in terms of originality.

Plot is as shallow as the poster implies; all characters except Starlord and blonde girl are caricatures of what they're supposed to represent with the main villain being the epitome of "mwahaha i like money im evil capitalist" white dude, alongside his weird looking pal and the one hunter dude with the tooth fetish. The entire movie relies on Starlord's character actions and present the other protagonists only when convenient; the dinosaurs are at the same time presented both as fragile dumb creatures that can be taken down with a single pistol bullet and also huge menaces that not even trained private soldiers can hope to hit a shoot even when standing literally 10 meters from them. Jeff Goldblum character has less than 5 minute screen time and change the story in absolutely no way serving only as an intro and outro narrator. Although the CGI is good it gets very saturated too quickly from the excessive amount of dinosaurs on a single scene at a time and worns off, the animatronics are okay though. The entire sequence on the island have a blue-green filter that dosen't fit with the situation and makes it look more akin to Peter Jackson's skull island from King Kong than isla nublar seen in the first movie and the last entry. Acting is good but only so far as the actors can make it, since the characters themselves are horribly written. Overall, it's both a bad Jurassic Park movie and a bad movie as whole, specially when seen alone, since it serves no purpose other than setting up the stage for the third and final entry in the Jurassic World triology. Fans of said triology may like, but conservative fans of the Jurassic Park series as a whole probably will not; even though it have a considerable amount of graphic imagery this movies seens to be aimed directly at kids and will be a massive grind to anyone that may try to take on it as an chapter in the series.

I was never a fan of the Jurassic Park series. I didn't even think much of the original. Each of the movies in the series has the most basic plot you can think of - and it's rehashed here for the 5th time.

Dinosaurs are in danger, humans try to rescue them, they escape and chase humans, happy ending.

All the rehashed elements are here: Dinosaurs run, dinosaurs roar, dinosaurs chase humans. Plot is kept to a minimum.

Bryce Dallas Howard can't act if her life was dependent on it, she's simply the most generic actor possible. Chris Pratt, usually a charismatic actor, is flat and almost transparent here - I really got the feeling he did it just for the money.

There are endless possible drinking game with this movie: Drink every time someone is in danger so he stops and slowly looks at it instead of running; drink every time someone says: "run"; drink every time someone is raising his hand to control/slow a dinosaur.

So... boring... and so long. During the movie I looked at the clock and couldn't believe there's still a full hour to go. I think the people were happy this movie was finally over.

The theme seems to rip off Joseph LoDuca's theme to ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992) (which was also ripped off in GODZILLA (1998)).

I hated Jurassic World (2015). It had a level of spite which made the film leave a terrible taste. But you know what -it was not boring.

Imagine a filmic task: here is a few hundred million, pick of actors and big CGI budget. Now make a film about dinosaurs BUT make it boring. You would have thought that this was Sisyphean task, impossible even but then I give you Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Instead of one film, Bayonara has made four: Aliens, The Impossible, The Orphanage and Jurassic Park. Like a victim of the Alien Queen, the progeny has fed till the host is just a husk.

The acting is so average. There is no chemistry at all between Pratt and Howard and if I hadn't just seen Avengers, you would think Pratt had lost all his filmic charisma. The ensemble struggles along as best they can.

Oh yeah, by the way who builds a billion dollar tourist park on a volcano? Just saying....

Half of this movie's plot is ripped from TLW:JP, the other half is an unterrifying camp horror film. Bad CGI all around, over the top performances, the same T-Rex saves the day at the last moment shot (used twice here, no less) with a lot of bad environmentalist ideology that leads to humanity's future being decided by a ridiculous twist that I saw coming a mile away and called early in the movie because of ridiculousness.

Save your money. Go see something else. Take a vacation. Pay your bills. Buy a cat. Just don't waste your time on this.

These movies will go on and on, but some of us are still waiting for them to evolve. This fun addition to the dinosaurs disaster franchise doesn't do much that's particularly new and fresh. The truth is tha J. A. Bayona's "Fallen Kingdom" is more watchable than its predecessor, as the director adds some creepy moments as our heroes trying to save themselves, but it's still a pointless and visually exhausting chapter in a tired series of movies. Bayona gives us a number of memorable set pieces combine tension and thrills in the right balance, but overall, these dinosaurs deserve so much better. Hollywood keeps telling the same stories over and over again, and I think if there are not good ideas, for "Jurassic World" extinction is the only cure.

It almost feels like a very bad superhero movie. I can hear Chris Pratt's face saying "Why am i even in this thing?"

No meaningful story, super lame side characters and just very very boring in general.

They want to save the dinos from dying but bad guys actually want to sell them for money. Yeah shocking i know.

Yo. Can we talk about the dock scene?! Because what the serious hell is that about.

I had a bad day. This movie made it exponentially WORSE.

Good job on tugging on every single heart string and ripping them out and proceeding to do a jig on them while you were at it.

Lazy, lazy, lazy. The only people who gave any effort in this movie were the CGI folks--and really, how hard did they have to try considering they probably had everything they needed saved on a hard drive somewhere. I can't believe how bad this movie was. Almost immediately I was shaking my head in disapproval.

Jurassic anything is no longer original and no longer unique. That's OK though. We're willing to watch so long as you can bring an interesting enough plot. Well, that didn't happen.

The premise is that the dinosaurs have to be rescued from Isla Nublar because of an active volcano that's going to destroy them all. We could just let them die but where's the movie in that? We have to rescue them but we also have to have some other nefarious plot in play to make it interesting. At the core of it all was an ethical dilemma: allow the dinosaurs to die or rescue the dinosaurs.

Ethical dilemmas is part and parcel of Jurassic Park/World. From the very beginning it was an ethics issue by recreating dinosaurs, so there is no reason to stray from ethical dilemmas now. And I agree with that. In fact, that was the only interesting thing about this entire movie. After that it was just a replay of the first Jurassic World: you know, catastrophic failures, harrowing escapes, bad guys getting eaten, a kid right in the middle of it all, etc. The whole thing just annoyed me.

How one dimensional can you make these characters? Almost every character was a walking cliche: the macho shoot first henchman, the smart witty doctor to show brains are better than braun, the shady child-yelling antagonist, the genius kid and other character types that wore bright neon signs letting you know their role and their fate.

I was rolling my eyes the entire movie as I just watched the first Jurassic World play out before me as they tried to convince me this was different. They will make a third, fourth, fifth and so on because as long as they have sharp toothed prehistoric beasts and evil gullible homo-sapiens they have a formula for hundreds of millions of dollars. Yuck.