Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Review: Mindless Entertainer With Dinos In Action

We have seen quite a lot of dinosaurs since the original Jurassic Park.

We have evolved from the Park to the World and Fallen Kingdom is the second movie involving the “World”. And the movie picks up three years after the Jurassic World (2015).

Right from the start we get to see action and thrill – the chase, the rain, the super-sized dinosaurs, the lava, the emotions, the good, the bad – all are entangled throughout the run time.

Fallen Kingdom is all about a rescue mission – but unlike the ones we have seen in previous movies where a rescue team rescues the people, here the rescue mission is for the dinosaurs at the park.

There is a volcano that’s about to erupt in the island Isla Nublar, and if it does, the dinosaurs there will be all washed away.

So Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) who has worked with the founder of the Jurassic Park John Hammond, wants to rescue all the dinosaurs at the Park and bring them to a calm island that he has developed solely for them.

He hands over the mission to someone he trusts, but that person is after making money with the dinosaurs by auctioning them based on each of their specific qualities.

Now, in order for the rescue mission to be implemented he seeks the help of Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) since she has to authorize the tracking system used in the park.

And, to find and rescue “Blue” in particular, they seek the help of Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) via Claire.

The team successfully helps rescuing the dinosaurs but things go wrong once Blue is found – one of the team members shoot her.

And then Claire and Owen come to know that they have been used in the money making plot.

The dinosaurs are brought back home and auctioned. Things don’t go as planned because Claire and Owen simply open cages and release dinosaurs so they can escape.

I mean, why would you open a cage with a furious dino inside to escape from a man pointing a gun to you (there are more than one instance where this happens)?

And how is that the dinos just feast on the “bad” men and ignore the good men and women?

There are so many things that seem illogical throughout the Fallen Kingdom. But if you choose to ignore the logic you can get a good dinosaur treat.

The CGI has improved a lot since the original Jurassic Park. To add to the scare factor, we had Indominus Rex in Jurassic World.

And, in Fallen Kingdom we have one more new engineered dinosaur that’s named Indoraptor. The animal is clever and is a beast (and really entertains you!).

The dinosaurs in the movie have not only be used for scares. They are also used to kindle other kinds of emotions from sadness, to sympathy and even comedy (look out for the one that helps Claire and Owen escape by breaking walls).

One thing that would bother you after seeing all chasing, hiding scenes is this – even though the dinosaurs (especially Indoraptor) are capable of jumping, smashing and munching the people they see and even though they can smell to track people, why do they take small steps and halt when they see the important characters in the movie?

Like Lockwood’s grand daughter hiding in the bed? Owen, and Chris hiding behind the tables with the Indoraptor just a few inches behind?

All the three of them on the glass roof top and still the mighty Indo deeply thinking about whether or not to jump on to any of the three?

Nevertheless, there are also serious plot holes. What is the reason to have Hydrogen Cyanide pipes in the place where the animals are parked (may be I missed something)?

And what were they thinking simply unleashing all the animals, just like that, into the public?

I mean for five movies we have seen how beasty and dangerous dinosaurs are, and now in the climax, they are just unleashed into cities.

And we also are talked into “dinos living with men” – but I am not sure how that’s going to be addressed in the sequel!

Anyways, kids will love this movie. And if you choose to ignore the plot holes and the lack of logic you too can enjoy the movie.

For the effects, scares, thrills, chases and the dinos itself, the movie definitely scores.