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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

There is really nothing left to the imagination in this non-stop CGI chase scene involving seriously pissed off over sized animals that make you feel that really, it can't have been this bad. 
The movie opens with a few DNA pirates on a stealth mission at the now-abandoned-by-humans island park where the dinosaurs still roam.After the volcano erupts, people and a handful of dinosaurs escape, and then we get a glimpse of the kind of things that people will do to make money (spoiler: almost anything, nothing is stopping too low).  There is a small child involved, which is almost gratuitous when you stop and think about it, and her name is Maisie (what does she know?  Well, what she finds out is pretty harrowing, that is for sure, way worse than what Henry James had in mind).
The film stomps through its two-hour running time hitting a lot of action beats that the series has hit before; the variations therein are along the lines of equations you used to do for homework: dinosaurs, volcanic eruption, a number od characters the audience may or may not have any emotional investment in, especially given the precision of the special effects, leaving us with what the dinosaur movie is: soulless, bereft of personality, delivering meticulously engineered thrills.

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