Jurassic World Movie Review

Jurassic World (2015)

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Written by: Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly (screenplay); Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (story); Michael Crichton (characters)
Directed by: Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Ty Simpkins, 
Rated: PG-13
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Plot
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.

Verdict
There's a lot of ridiculousness to this movie. The simple premise is that they engineered the most dangerous dinosaur ever and are then shocked when it causes problems and escapes. This isn't much more than a big dumb action movie. While it has its moments, there's just as many that stretch credibility too far. It's a B-movie with a big budget.
It depends.

Review
This represented the Jurassic Park movies coming back. The prior movie had released in 2001. This marked the return of the franchise. Somehow the investors have fixed Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, turning it into a safe and popular theme park titled Jurassic World. They did it! Hammond's vision is finally realized.

Despite a park full of real dinosaurs, people are tired of seeing them. At least that's the premise of the movie. Yet zoos are still around. How do you explain that? This park appears to be packed.. We've had three movies where multiple people died just trying to set foot on the island, and somehow in this world they've figured out how to run a safe amusement park, and that's not good enough. The park needs a new attraction, the Indominous Rex that's been genetically engineered to be bigger, meaner, and worse in every way. It escapes before the attraction is even open to the public. It's loose in a public park. I want to know how long this park was open and safe before this happened. I find that amazing based on the original Park movies. Greed wouldn't infect the park until now? I doubt it.

Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt play Claire, owen

We see the park through two kids visiting their Aunt Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) who works at the park. Behind the scenes Owen (Chris Pratt) trains Raptors. How'd he do that? His training is quickly put to the test when he ends up in the pen with his pet Raptors. He's soon the only hope against a dinosaur on the loose that's been bred to escape. They made it smart, able to camouflage and alter its body temperature. Who approved that? It's a series of incredibly stupid decisions, and then the park is shocked the I-Rex escapes when it was designed precisely for that.

The I-Rex is loose but the park doesn't want to alarm anyone. Right. It all comes down to trying to maintain appearances and not wanting this mistake on the record. Killing dozens of people does seem worse though. Claire's nephews are trapped in a hamster ball ride with the I-Rex after them. If you can get over the premise of creating a dinosaur bred to escape, half way in it's not bad. The goal is to recreate the original on a larger scale. This even acknowledges the original, hiding the entirety of the original park inside Jurassic World. There's no way it wouldn't have been torn down due to needing the space and the potential danger. It's fan service. Somehow the nephews get a Jeep running despite the gas in it being twenty years old.

Chris Pratt plays Owen

CGI allows this movie to do a lot more than the original. We see a dinosaur attack on an occupied park.

Then we have Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio) who wants to weaponize Raptors. The inherent mistake in the franchise is thinking you have any control over dinosaurs. This movie tries to do everything. It's like they were concerned they wouldn't get another chance and just included every idea. Hoskins puts cameras on Raptors to make them hounds. It's ridiculous. The movie keeps complicating the plot. In the original movie the dinosaurs mutated to breed. In this movie they knowingly bred killer dinosaurs for military weapons. That's just silly. These subplots easily could have been streamlined or excised.

To fight the I-Rex, Claire frees the T-Rex. The flaw in that logic is that the I-Rex is more dangerous in every single way. That and Claire also outruns the T-Rex in heels. There's no way she could outrun it if she were the fastest human on the planet. We get a wild dinosaur fight that ends in a surprise, not that there are many.

The premise of this movie was that a dinosaur park can be safe and sustainable. This movie blows that up in just a few minutes. Either the park can be sustainable or it can't. This movie tries to have it both ways. It's a retread of the original with a flimsier foundation. At it's core it's just a dinosaur attacks movie with a big budget that tries to hide the numerous flaws.