Michael’s Movie Grade: D-
This franchise needs to end.
While I didn’t care for the previous two Jurassic World films, I must admit that the last one ended with a good cliffhanger. The idea of dinosaurs breaking out into our world is a fantastic idea for a Jurassic Park movie. So what does this film do with that great idea? Pretty much nothing. We get a few opening scenes with this idea and then the film abandons it. Instead the focus turns to giant locusts (which not surprisingly aren’t as exciting as dinosaurs) and a boring human villain. The human villain seems to exist simply to spout cliché after cliché and to reinforce the same moral that the past 5 movies had. Only this time it is more heavy handed than ever. When the dinosaurs do appear they don’t do anything they didn’t do in the previous movies and none of these scenes actually deliver on the great premise that this movie should focus on. Also disappointing is that there is no sense of awe and wonder here. The feeling of awe and wonder was what made Jurassic Park such a good film. Yet here the dinosaurs lack everything that made the special in the first place. The movie is also nearly two and a half hours long. The problem is it feels twice as long. I admit it was really cool to see the old gang from the first movie back together again but I just wish it could have been in a better movie.
Just watch the original Jurassic Park again.
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