{"id":28327,"date":"2018-06-22T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2018-06-24T00:21:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T04:21:56","slug":"jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s a shame that we\u2019ve reached this milestone, but it warrants noting that \u201cJurassic World\u201d is the first \u201cJurassic Park\u201d movie to ever put me to sleep. I\u2019m not saying \u201cFallen Kingdom\u201d is an awful movie, it\u2019s just that it\u2019s not a very good one. If \u201cJurassic World\u201d became a Saturday morning cartoon to entertain kids between bowls of cereal and bathroom breaks, \u201cFallen Kingdom\u201d would be the pilot episode. It\u2019s thin on narrative, but crowded with a ton of half baked, under developed characters, all of whom are so paper thin we barely get to know them, or engage ourselves with them all over again.<\/p>\n

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Owen and Claire are back as Claire (Sans her obnoxious nephews) is called back to one of the Jurassic Islands to help save some of the dinosaurs as a dormant volcano threatens to destroy the entire species. For some reason, Claire enlists the help of ex-boyfriend Owen to help in the expedition and find his old friend, the friendly neighborhood raptor Blue. Meanwhile, Claire brings along two new assistants to help in the capture of the dinosaurs, but are unaware that the man staging the expedition is an evil millionaire. He plans to create a super dinosaur with the DNA of other dinosaurs, and with the help of his evil hunters, he hopes to\u2026 um\u2026 I don\u2019t know, sell them as weaponry. I think that\u2019s what they explained, I was drifting in and out. With the help of the rambunctious little brat named Maisie, they hope to stop the bad scientists before they begin hurting the dinosaurs and creating a new breed of dangerous predators. Look! It\u2019s Jeff Goldblum collecting an easy paycheck!<\/p>\n

For a movie that\u2019s two hours, \u201cFallen Kingdom\u201d hits the ground running, sprinting for the finish line without ever letting up. There\u2019s no down time, or time for us to catch our breath, because the script anxiously pads its paper thin script with action sequences, and dinosaur rampages that frankly felt redundant and repetitive after a while. These characters haven\u2019t changed at all, and we don\u2019t feel much growth with them. Owen is still kind of a lunk head who dons an in and out Southern boy accent, while Claire is a fine heroine. If \u201cFallen Kingdom\u201d were well written and exciting, she\u2019d be a wonderful heroine and a great addition to the canon. Meanwhile the three younger characters all feel tacked on, and wasted with nothing to do but react off of Owen and Claire.<\/p>\n

They literally have no forward motion or life, save for Maisy, whose sub-plot feels like someone tossed it a whole other movie in to the script before filming \u201cFallen Kingdom,\u201d just to hit the two hour mark. Nothing about \u201cFallen Kingdom\u201d ever really clicks, as it all feels like recycled plot elements from previous \u201cJurassic Park\u201d films, from the expedition, the crooked hunters, the evil organization, right down to the child being chased around by dinosaurs. It\u2019s all so lazy and half hearted that it pretty much jumps in to auto drive mid-way and never stops. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are fine in the movie, but their characters don\u2019t evolve or grow; they\u2019re merely reduced to being props for the action scenes, in the end. \u201cFallen Kingdom\u201d threatens to make oodles of cash at the box office, which is disheartening, since audiences deserve so much better than this drivel that never moves anything forward, or devises new ideas.<\/p>\n