first, some background, yes, as a kid, I loved Jurassic Park, but that's where it ended. I still thought very highly of the film, it being a fantastic film, but it wasn't something that's branded into my brain like Thunderbirds or Godzilla, It's not something I'm glued to when I catch it on the TV like it used to be. so when Jurassic park 4 came onto the scene I was ok with it, but not jumping around with glee. it goes by the name of Jurassic World, and it deals with a new and risky topic for the Jurassic Park series, genetic modification. (Yes, they're all genetically modified, holes in the DNA, bla bla bla from the first film) Introducing the Indominus Rex, a big, scary genetic hybrid dinosaur. And as Jurassic Park movies go, you shouldn't mess with nature, and bad things happen. this time the super dino breaches containment and runs rampant through the park, causing Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt to have a very bad day.
first thing's first, the good things in the film. the 2 mains of the film, Howard and Pratt, are very good, Pratt in particular, who is a complete bad-ass, and his 'relationship' with the raptors is buyable enough to not be joke. here's a negative, the film goes for emotion a few times, and it tries to make you feel for Pratt and the raptors, and as you'd expect, it fails hard. more on the feels later. more good things though. the star of the lizards, the Indo rex is completely awesome; its huge, it's mean, it's stupidly intelligent, it looks cool, and it has a few 'abilities' that I'll go into in my spoiler review. the park itself is really cool, it's cool to see John Hammond's dream become a reality, a park where people can go to see dinosaurs, though the film doesn't really explain how Jurassic world exists, I mean, Isla Nublar was over run with dinosaurs, so how did they manage to retake the island and build a dinosaur park, it's a mystery. In terms of enjoyability, the films Plateau's at watchable for a troublingly long time, the film takes a while to get going, and when it finally starts moving it gets good, as the Indo rex starts causing real problems and shit starts to hit the fan. it's first half hour or so just isn't that interesting, there' not a lot of dinos and instead a lot of talking, which minus Jeff Goldblum just isn't fun to watch. by comparison, the film's climax is dumb as hell, but it is just so awesome beyond awesome that it's difficult to comprehend, and leaves the film on a note that left me giggling like a child.
now, some negative, Vincent D'onofrio can go away, his character is just dumb, a jar headed military man who wants to use the dinosaurs as weapons, his character is like the cancerous remains of that planned script where they were making dino hybrid soldiers, and it was bad. come to think of it, most of the side characters were stupid, and their interactions with other characters more often than not was a pretty poor. this film also has another story with 2 kids, that, like so many things in this film, isn't as interesting as other things that frankly, you hope film gets back to. Dr Wu was cool, but that's because he's Dr Wu, and his story with D'onofrio is as stupid as D'onofrio himself. Like I mentioned earlier, the film goes for feels a few times, and some of those times it's bearable, and then, raptors, god dammit that was stupid. there's a romance between the 2 mains, and a subplot with the 2 kids' parents planning to divorce, and it's just crap, it's not relevant; the scene that it's in is awkward to watch. finally, the ending maybe pure awesome to watch, but it is dumb, really dumb, if you're not grabbed by it's awesomeness, like what happened to the rest of my 3 man viewing party, it's just shit.
so, verdict. I went in not confident either way, it could have been awesome, it could have been garbage, truth is it has elements of both. there is certainly things to love in here, but there is still some things that just aren't worth loving. it's worth looking at, and, judging by how packed the cinema was, you will probably see it, but know before going into it that it isn't brilliant, that there will be things that aren't good, mixed in the things that make this an awesome time. and for the record, Joss, Chris Pratt isn't sexist, there, I said it. check it out, but don't expect brilliance, just expect that you will have some fun. spoiler review coming soon with some more in depth views on the film.
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