Jurassic World Review
After all these years since the first Jurassic park one
thing hasn’t changed and that’s that dinosaurs are still awesome.
I wasn’t a fan of the original Jurassic Park and I’ve never
seen either of the two sequels (Although I’m assured they’re pretty abysmal) so
I can talk about this new film with no nostalgia to influence this review.
To cut to the chase I really enjoyed Jurassic World, I think
it did a large amount of things well. I liked the characters in this film and
while they weren’t exactly original, there’s the badass former military guy and
the cold women who’ll learn passion and love but these arcs were done well and
both were fun and likeable. Being a Jurassic film means there obviously has to
be kid characters and they were okay too, the older one in particular
progressing throughout the film.
Some of the side characters were quite well done too. While
not overly memorable they were fun to watch such as the rich person who owns
Jurassic World and the science comic relief man. The biggest weakness in the character roster
was the villain and while I won’t spoil who it is, it is pretty damn obvious.
He was pretty much just a dumb cartoon character which was kind of
disappointing and made you wonder why a film about a hybrid dinosaur killing
machine needed a human villain.
The most important characters of the film arguably however
are the dinosaurs. The thing to get out
the way is the effects are fine. They’re not ground breaking like the first
Jurassic park but they’re not bad and I never really noticed them which can’t
be a bad thing. The hybrid dinosaur itself wasn’t anywhere near as stupid as I
thought it would be. Take one look at it and you can probably guess what
dinosaurs have been combined to make it but it served as a good monster for an
antagonist for the film.
Everyone saw the trailer and thought the raptors looked like
they’d be ridiculous. Were they tame or something? As it turns out no, the film
made it very clear that they were still wild animals and killers. I liked their
integration into the plot, they played quite a big role and they weren’t silly
so that’s good although it really bugs me that these Jurassic films have such a focus on Raptors, a dinosaur from the cretaceous period.
Honestly you can see where the plot is going throughout the
film and nothing was really surprising and the pacing seemed a little off. It seemed
to have quite a slow build up before at one point everything went crazy. It
would be kind of like slowly cooking a jacket potato in an oven for a while
before deciding to shoot it with a rocket launcher. The first half of the film
was good too while the second half was a little up and down. Jurassic world had
some really good creative scenes with others that felt really forced and kind
of messy.
The thing is, it’s a fun mess. I found out afterwards that
part of the team that worked on Pacific Rim worked on Jurassic World and that
seems like a good comparison to me. It’s no masterpiece but I don’t think it’s
really trying to be. At the end of the day it was well acted, kept you on for
the ride and was fun and for a cynical mind like mine to be able to look past
all the dumb stuff in the film it must have done something right.
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