Tuesday 3 July 2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A) – Movie Review

Returning to a movie franchise which is now 25 years old can be exciting for those who grew up with the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park.
Here we have the fifth move in the series, and the remaining dinosaurs are living out their existence on a volcanic island.  The governments of the world are in talks about whether they should save the dinosaurs or let them die.
This new movie is set three years after the last one, ‘Jurassic World’, and the animal expert couple, Clair and Owen return, although they are now estranged.
An invalid industrialist, Benjamin Lockwood (played by James Cromwell), who was an associate of the founder of Jurassic Park, which was original home of the dinosaurs gets Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her former love, Owen (Chris Pratt) to return to the island and save the dinosaurs.  Owen has the further interest of finding his own favourite dinosaur, Blue, and along the way he discovers that they will have more battles to save the dinosaurs than they originally thought.
It begins like a traditional movie, with the elderly billionaire offering the young folk the opportunity to save the dinosaurs, but the storyline gets lost along the way, although it does manage to throw in a few surprises.  The CGI of the dinosaurs is still great to see, but somehow it was more effective in the early 1990s when audiences hadn’t seen as much of these types of movies.
Jeff Goldblum returns as Dr. Ian Malcolm to give a philosophical perspective on the whole plan of dinosaurs living in the world with man, writes David Flynn
It’s a moral story, which shows some respect for animals, and it’s an interesting episode of the series.  However producers will want to come up with some new and adventurous ideas for the next Jurassic feature.

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