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

4. It's A Bit Boring At Times

Though the action is very good, the bridging work between the dino-heavy sequences is a little boring, which is pretty fatal. The script sags badly when it's not getting things to chase or eat other things and it's really, really hard to care about a group of characters who are living the same mistakes every single character in the history of Jurassic Park movies has lived.

And the reptition doesn't help either. The film spends way too much time falling back on the pillars of Jurassic Park film-making - like Rexy or a raptor making a last minute save, so some of the drama ends up feeling a little hollow. That would be fine if it wasn't so heavily signposted. It's all too much like Deus T-Rex Machina.

If you try and think back to any conversation or any story point that doesn't involve the dinosaurs, it's pretty hard to conjure anything up. The first Jurassic Park had Dr Alan Grant's fear of fatherhood and family and Dennis Nedry's evil - both of which had real complexity - but there's just none of that sort of nuance here and it's all very grey.