10 Amazing Practical Movie Effects Shots Everybody Assumed Were CGI

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a $190 million CGI-slathered behemoth of a movie, such that it's easy to forget that the film actually features more practical effects work than any other entry in the Jurassic Park series.

Perhaps the most technically impressive of all the practical dino scenes occurs when Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) sneak into the T-rex's cell to acquire some of its blood, so that they can give beloved raptor Blue a blood transfusion.

Despite the technically imposing intimacy of the scene, Pratt and Howard are indeed acting opposite a gigantic T-rex animatronic.

Though it's easy to picture a scenario where the two actors were instead working with an unsightly green blob which would be painted into dinosaur form later, director J.A. Bayona wanted to ensure Pratt and Howard had something tangible to react to.

In a thoroughly mediocre movie, it's tellingly one of the very best scenes.