8 Reasons You Should Be Concerned About Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
2. There's Just No Stakes
The only reason the original Jurassic Park film mattered at all was because audiences cared about the characters. Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm, these are characters that live on in pop culture to this day. All because Spielberg took the time to let audiences fall in love with them and then put them in highly dangerous, but believable, situations from which they had to escape.
This resulted in the stakes being consistently high throughout the film, it felt as if anyone could die or be horribly injured at any moment. It gave the effects weight and the whole film an emotional pathos to ground itself in.
This film looks to have thrown the baby out with the bath water. In the trailers alone, our protagonists survive being on an exploding island, several dinosaur attacks, a fall off of a cliffside, and Chris Pratt literally jumps through the jaws of a T-Rex. And yet they remain unscathed and alive.
Suspension of disbelief can only be pushed so far until it breaks and the audience is left with characters they know are only alive because the script says so.