After watching several trailers for the newest installment in the Jurassic Park series, I thought that I had the general plot of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom fairly well figured out. As it turns out, most of what I'd seen happened in the first 30 mins of a 2 hour movie. And to be honest, I was a bit disappointed...

[For those of you who haven't seen it yet, I'll try not to give away anything which you haven't seen in the trailers, but this will make a bit more sense once you've seen the film.] 

To me, it felt like they went a little Batman vs Superman in this film, which was pretty disappointing. What I mean is that I think they put two films worth of plot and visuals into one film, but unlike the DC Disaster, this film was entertaining as it went along.

Overall, I think that the film had the potential to be two great films, but ended up being one film which moves too far too fast. 

The first half of the film was pretty damn good, although some of the CGI was worse than the visuals in the original Jurassic Park (or even this film's prequel Jurassic World), it was entertaining, with the plot moving at a descent pace and all the thrills which we expect from a disaster movie with dinosaurs. 
However, this is then let down as the plot takes a sudden right hand turn and follows a plot line which they'd done well to keep secret, but was a fairly predictable outcome from the secondary plots in both this and the previous movie. While I liked the idea of this plot line, and think that it was both the obvious and promising direction for the whole franchise to go in, I think it would have done better as a sequel.

Obviously, this film brings the characters back together the main characters in a search for Blue, who is still the most important dinosaur in the whole of the re-booted franchise. As well as exploring their relationships with the main characters, as they're thrown into various dangerous situations, and how they interact with the various dinosaurs on the island.
The main character development which stood out to me is between Blue and Owen (Chris Pratt). The film spends a reasonable amount of time looking at how their relationship developed as Blue grew up, and how they interact with each other after being apart for 3 years.

And I think on that note, I'll have to leave the review there, else I'll run the risk of slipping more plot details out and ruining the experience for those of you who haven't seen it yet.

If you've got this far, thank you for reading my first film review! Feel free to let me know what you think, any feedback is appreciated!

Until next time.

Tim

Plot: ✇ ✇       Performance: ✇ ✇ ✇ ✇      Overall: ✇ ✇ ✇

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