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As it happens, weaponizing the dinos is exactly what the filmmakers do.
Thatll teach them, at least until the sixthJurassicmovie.
IsFallen Kingdoma good ride?
Filmmakers perfected CGI long before they knew how to tell decent stories with it.
Here as elsewhere they just throw stuff at you, willy-nilly.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomis set three years afterJurassic World.
Thats, like, a good year for Bill OReilly.
Spoiler: Howards Claire and Pratts Owen couldnt make a go of it yet again.
He wanted the chores and fresh air, she wanted the stores and Times Square.
You know the story.
(Fun fact: Cromwell isfresh out of jailfor demonstrating against numerous eco-scumbags and the so-called EPA.)
(She overhears the villains plans and what Maisie knows could fill a book.)
The fact that I lost count of Maisies escapes is part of the movies problem.
The first time she gets away is suspenseful, the second only a little less so.
By the third time youre thinking, Didnt I just see this?
By the fourth, youre aware that the plot is chasing its tail.
(In the last part of the movie, were marooned in what seems like a haunted mansion.)
It might not matter if Bayona and his storyboarders had more wit.
Theyre certainlytryingto be witty to create cascading, Rube Goldbergesque catastrophes.
But the movie plays like a strenuous imitation of Steven Spielberg instead of the real deal.
Here you register the cleverness without really losing your shit.
and Daniella Pineda as the hot nerdy dino-doc.
But the consequences for movies concern me, too.
But this is more or less a blueprint for franchise amusement-park movies to come.
As Jeff Goldblum said in another context, Be very afraid.
