‘Jurassic World’ Review: Everything Wrong With The Latest Film [Spoilers]

Most Jurassic World reviews have been positive, and it does strike a similar chord as its original predecessor. However, Spielberg’s latest dinosaur film also does a lot of things wrong.

It’s a good movie for popcorn audiences who just want to sit back and see the amazing things CG can do on the big screen. There is plenty to be amazed at, from the return to the infamous park created by author Michael Crichton, to several nods to the first film. It was penned by the writers behind the Planet of the Apes reboot, if that tells you anything.

This is not a spoiler-free review, so if you haven’t seen it yet and want to experience it fresh, you should probably click on a previous, more positive review by The Inquisitr.

This movie would have benefited from one major element which made The Lost World watchable. Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm delivered an exchange with Richard Attenborough’s John Hammond in that movie which almost sums this one up.

When Hammond tells Malcolm he’s “not making the same mistakes again,” the reply was too perfect in describing this movie. “No, you’re making all new ones.”

In the case for this movie, they’re making the same mistakes again, as well as all new ones, and a cameo to tell us this would have been a clever inside joke.

What the positive Jurassic World reviews have said about this film might have overlooked the fact that this movie follows almost all of the same plot points from the first one. A family is brought to the park, scientists are so obsessed with what they can do that they never stop to think about whether they should, and even the introduction of the dinosaurs mirrors the first film. It even sets itself up for a sequel by having an insider escape with the specimens, and showing the Tyrannosaurus Rex running free again.

Moving on with this Jurassic World review, there is a scene where Chris Pratt’s Owen witnesses his velociraptors communicating with the Indominus Rex. He concludes from this that the new dinosaur is in fact half raptor. Later on, you see the same communication between the same raptors and an original T-Rex, meaning that either Owen’s conclusion makes no sense, or the movie decided to ignore that plot point.

The love story seems forced in this movie. In the first three films, it felt a lot more natural, but this time you had Owen, a pragmatic risk-taker, trying to woo Claire, someone who would rather crunch numbers than get her hands dirty. While she has a realistic enough character arc, it seems that the movie forced them to be together by the end, even using her nephews as a device to make her feel guilty if she didn’t.

Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) shouldn’t have let them wander off, never mind put them in the hands of someone so busy she was just as irresponsible.

This Jurassic World review also has a problem with the way the kids interacted. From the beginning, the younger one, Gray (Ty Simpkins), was revealed to be highly intelligent while the older one, Zach (Nick Robinson), seemed to have no personality at all. Suddenly as soon as the authority figure wasn’t paying attention, the older one developed a personality and regularly made bad decisions for nearly the rest of the movie, endangering them both. The problem with this is that, despite being a “genius,” Gray never stopped him. He just accepted Zach’s word over and over.

Their idea of fixing up a jeep that had been sitting there for 20 years by simply swapping out the battery was little more than storytelling convenience. Any mechanic will tell you that 20 years of deterioration will require a lot more engine work than they had time to fix.

Do you agree with this Jurassic World review? Was there anything I missed? Leave a comment below if there was anything else you found wrong with this movie.

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