10 Movies That Peaked Too Soon

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom may have been one of the most disappointing blockbusters of the last few years, but it's tough to fault the efforts of director J. A. Bayona, who did everything within his power to make the film visually enticing and entertaining.

And so, the delirious instigating sequence where Isla Nublar is destroyed by a volcanic eruption, forcing the humans on the island to flee and killing all non-evacuated dinosaurs, was clearly in search of a much better movie.

Bayona does a fantastic job making the audience feel concerned with the poor dinos - more so than the humans, it has to be said - as befits the film's general animal rights messaging.

No matter your opinion on the film as a whole, it's tough to argue against the unforgettably haunting departing image from the island, where the Brachiosaurus from the original Jurassic Park is shown being felled by the volcano's pyroclastic flow.

But there's still an entire 80 minutes of movie left, not a second of which gets close to the efficient thrills of this sequence.

From the goofy dinosaur auction to the dubious third-act shift to horror to the whole human cloning subplot, the latter two-thirds of Fallen Kingdom are an abject mess.

Nobody needed yet another film set entirely on a dinosaur-infested island, but the subsequent mainland scenes felt like perfunctory time-wasting until the ending could set up the upcoming threequel, Jurassic World: Dominion.