8 Reasons You Should Be Concerned About Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
1. Doubling Down
The worst thing about Fallen Kingdom thus far it that it is doubling down on what was by far the stupidest part of Jurassic World.
Vincent D'onofrio's entire character in Jurassic World was unbearably stupid. He droned on for the entire film about weaponizing the dinosaurs and how much money there was to make from it. Of all the things that generated backlash in Jurassic World (the heels, the raptor-bros, etc.), D'onofrio's character was by far the most egregious.
And yet, Fallen Kingdom builds upon this plot thread and makes it the crux of its second half. After the island explodes, the plot moves to a mansion where representatives from governments around the world bid on dinosaurs like a black market.
Where the film should have moved away from this trainwreck of an idea, Trevorrow has instead opted to commit even more hardily to the concept, as if to prove it wasn't a stupid idea, to begin with. Which is a strategy of screenwriting that almost never ends well.