Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review - 5 Ups & 7 Downs

5. It Commits Its Own Prophecised Crimes

Back in the first Jurassic World, Claire made a stunningly prophetic statement about how dinosaurs aren't enough and crowds only respond to bigger, scarier, killier creatures, which is why they were forced to genetically engineer new attractions.

It's said knowingly and it works there, but then Fallen Kingdom seems to have used that statement as the inspiration for its own plot. So instead of us seeing the original dinosaurs who we are SUPPOSED to care about (given the ecological message), we instead get a stupid looking Indoraptor that has been made to look weirdly humanoid to make it more creepy.

After the Spinosaur and the D-Rex, it's time to retire the gene-spliced dinosaurs behind. They're getting to the stage now where this is going to become a Pokemon movie and while that sounds great, it's not what Jurassic Park should be.

And again, the film struggles because of it being split in two and ending up with an identity crisis as well as not knowing how to make us care the right way about its dinosaurs. So at the same time as trying to give Blue, Rexy and the others personality, it then focuses way too much on the Indoraptor and neither agenda works fully.