My most anticipated movie of the last years. Especially when it was announced that my childhood heroes Grant, Sattler and Malcolm are coming back for it. So I was pumped.
The result -as expected with that level of expectation - was mediocre. But I am biased with my rating because I got my fan service and thats most I could ask for.
If you look rationally at it, it was not much of an innovative movie beside the fan service I was waiting for the past 30 years... The plot is not really exisiting and pretty much all over the place. They had an opportunity with this one, showing the co-existence of man and dinosaur. However this was not really used just for a few scenes that didnt do much to the main plot because in the end they went back into a jungle and run away from monstersauruses as in the past films. Also during some phases of the film it felt like the dinosaurs are just playing a supporting part - instead we got giant bugs (?!?!) and a plot around a cloned child that was much more in the focus than anythng else.
Oh well... Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum got major of screentime so that's what saved it for me. Especially with a strong focus on Dern's Ellie Sattler which made me especially happy. She was great and perfecty back to the roots. While Sam Neill had his moments but he was a bit sleepwalking through it. I had the feeling they did not know how to focus on Jeff Goldblum except for the last third so he was a bit wasted, but as well as Dern he truly went back to the roots with his character. It was good the trio of legacy characters were back because Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard did not add anything to it. It always puzzled me why unexciting characters liek their Owen and Clair got to be major characters in a 3 of those films. This one showed most that there was nothing left to be added to their roles. No character development whatsover. The only real character development was seen in BD Wong's character but this was butchered and made no sense at all. I did not like Isabella Sermon who really did not act well (what was going on with her eyes all the times?). I liked a few new addtions most notably DeWanda Wise who possibly gave the best performance besides Laura Dern and Mamoudou Athie who was as always underrated. Campbell Scott made a decent villain but I really hated Dichen Lachman and was glad she had a rather minimal role. (Phew).
But agin I am biased so yes I like this movie. Its also by far not the worst of the franchise. We got a lot of great dino action, fantastic effects and locations (at one point it felt like a James Bond movie). Too bad they did not risk to break the formular though there were opportunities to do so. - Oh but then.... at one point they brought back the abandonded plot idea of the mid 00s when Dinosaurs were used as weapons.... I was scared for a second but this was just used for a few scenes in the mid section (again.. Phew!... because that was the point the movie really went down the hill but luckily it got back to familiar tracks in that case.
Oh well...good conclusion (or isn't it?) of a franchise even I as a major fan have to admit, is officially over now because there is really not much to tell anymore - and if you dare it anyway... it becomes a franchise about giant bugs or whatever.... Sorry for the good rating #fanboy.
The result -as expected with that level of expectation - was mediocre. But I am biased with my rating because I got my fan service and thats most I could ask for.
If you look rationally at it, it was not much of an innovative movie beside the fan service I was waiting for the past 30 years... The plot is not really exisiting and pretty much all over the place. They had an opportunity with this one, showing the co-existence of man and dinosaur. However this was not really used just for a few scenes that didnt do much to the main plot because in the end they went back into a jungle and run away from monstersauruses as in the past films. Also during some phases of the film it felt like the dinosaurs are just playing a supporting part - instead we got giant bugs (?!?!) and a plot around a cloned child that was much more in the focus than anythng else.
Oh well... Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum got major of screentime so that's what saved it for me. Especially with a strong focus on Dern's Ellie Sattler which made me especially happy. She was great and perfecty back to the roots. While Sam Neill had his moments but he was a bit sleepwalking through it. I had the feeling they did not know how to focus on Jeff Goldblum except for the last third so he was a bit wasted, but as well as Dern he truly went back to the roots with his character. It was good the trio of legacy characters were back because Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard did not add anything to it. It always puzzled me why unexciting characters liek their Owen and Clair got to be major characters in a 3 of those films. This one showed most that there was nothing left to be added to their roles. No character development whatsover. The only real character development was seen in BD Wong's character but this was butchered and made no sense at all. I did not like Isabella Sermon who really did not act well (what was going on with her eyes all the times?). I liked a few new addtions most notably DeWanda Wise who possibly gave the best performance besides Laura Dern and Mamoudou Athie who was as always underrated. Campbell Scott made a decent villain but I really hated Dichen Lachman and was glad she had a rather minimal role. (Phew).
But agin I am biased so yes I like this movie. Its also by far not the worst of the franchise. We got a lot of great dino action, fantastic effects and locations (at one point it felt like a James Bond movie). Too bad they did not risk to break the formular though there were opportunities to do so. - Oh but then.... at one point they brought back the abandonded plot idea of the mid 00s when Dinosaurs were used as weapons.... I was scared for a second but this was just used for a few scenes in the mid section (again.. Phew!... because that was the point the movie really went down the hill but luckily it got back to familiar tracks in that case.
Oh well...good conclusion (or isn't it?) of a franchise even I as a major fan have to admit, is officially over now because there is really not much to tell anymore - and if you dare it anyway... it becomes a franchise about giant bugs or whatever.... Sorry for the good rating #fanboy.