I went to go see this today in a 3D theater and was pretty excited because as many of you know I live in a town where the theaters rarely, if ever have any movies in English at all. However, I am currently in Hanoi and all of the movies come here and they are not overdubbed.
The opening sequence is pretty intense and takes place underwater, which always makes things more freaky for me because you have the added bonus of drowning as a way to go. I know this is pretty typical of movies that they get you interested with a shocking first 5 minutes and I feel as though they did a pretty good job in this one.
obviously they are going to get ate
The action stays pretty consistent and a lot of the story centers around Chris Pratt's character being needed in order to capture "Blue," a raptor that he raised since birth that has some sort of connection with him and affinity towards him that results in Pratt being like a parent to him (IE, it doesn't want to eat him immediately.)
The special effects are great and there are some truly breathtaking location choices made. However, the negative aspects of JP is in this one as well as all the rest of them. That is, they are incredibly predictable. There are virtually no instances of anything that happens that you are surprised about other than "gotcha!" moments where something jumps out (this was even better in the 3-D theater.) The usual aspects of being trapped by some horrible circumstance that seems unwinnable only to have someone intervene at the last minute over and over again, gets a bit tiresome.
Also the cages that the dinos are kept in (yeah, they did that again) are shockingly easy to open - to the point where a child and someone who has never actually interacted with the cages before manage to get them open easily, yet we are supposed to believe that it keeps a T-Rex safely inside otherwise.
Of course the good guys win but not before unleashing a bunch of dinosaurs onto the planet where Jeff Goldblum warns the world that we may have just done something to lead to our own extinction. Sure Jeff, because 20 some-odd dinos are obviously going to easily overwhelm the military of all countries. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
I would say that because the film is visually pleasing and action-packed it is worth seeing. But there is nothing groundbreaking about anything else in the movie... but i really didn't think there would be.
6 / 10