So this movie wasn't much of a surprise. To be fair, I had no intentions to see it, based off of my own predictions and the fact that it got a lot of mixed reviews. The only reason I saw it, was because I came to see Ant-Man so late on opening weekend, there were no seats. This shows that you should never spend money on a movie that your friends want to see, when you're the only person in the group who actually remembers what the other movies in the series were about and fully watched them. This movie is proof that high box office results mean nothing in terms of the quality of a film.
It was a 6 out 10, which to be fair, is higher than what I thought I would give it, but it least its better than Terminator Genisys.
So why did it suck?
Let's start with the beginning. It was too long and too slow. The first 5 minutes were filmed in such a way that it was made to appear that perhaps there would be a time skip of the boys into Chris Pratt's character, which could have ideally made for a better movie. Too bad, this never came to fruition, since the kids were very annoying, and the focus of family neglect, divorce, and brotherly love were forced. There was an unbearably long opening full of talking, where no one was being attacked by dinosaurs (just saying, I would have very much appreciated a helicopter being attacked by dinosaurs, since there were so many practical scenes to do so).
Jumping to Chris Pratt's character. It was okay, its just that there was very little depth, for which I couldn't take his character seriously. In the end, no matter how heroic he was trying to be, he was never really the "alpha". He was a douche. He had no real control over the dinosaur, which was demonstrated multiple times throughout the film. Therefore, he had no real right to really lead anybody, if you think about it. Literally, all he was doing was trying to get the girl. I honestly think the fat bad guy, made more sense than Chris Pratt's character, and that's saying something. All the other characters were irrelevant, and like the nanny, should have been killed off. Surprisingly, the black guy didn't die.
The I-Rex was cool, but too powerful. I say I-Rex since two years from now, no one will be able to remember the name of this dinosaur. First off, you have a GMO, that could turn invisible in every sense. There is no way, so few people died. It's also ridiculous you make the most powerful dinosaur, and it just kills for fun, and doen't eat its victims. That's just stupid. It makes no sense, being the largest being on the island, that it was not the fastest. There should have been more cool kill scenes, like that in the movie Predator. Sadly, this movie was clearly made for family and kids, so that practical idea got tossed out the window. There were cool scenes, don't get me wrong. But they were not violent enough and they dragged on too long. When you have something too powerful, everything else immediately becomes inferior.
The ending was complete crap. The T-Rex was crap, honestly just for show and for the fans. Sadly upon, fighting it was utterly worthless. The raptors were unbelievable, and were pretty much inexplicable turncoats. And yet, a sea-monster conveniently kills the I-Rex. Literally, cheat code. You're saying you GMO a dinosaur, and you can't make it swim!
In the end, there's still dinosaurs left on the island, the bad guys get away with dinosaur DNA, the kids return to a broken family, and Chris Pratt ends up with the girl that arguably risked everyone's lives. (Literally, there's a scene where she cries for the massacre of dinosaurs, but sheds no tears for the crew she let die). Entertainment goes only so far, and I have no desire to go for lesser quality. I don't care if you like dinosaurs on the big scene, like this movie, you shouldn't set yourself up for such failure.
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