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

1. The Way It Sets Up The Sequel

The film ends with a message about the possiblity of humans and dinosaurs living peacefully together in harmony as if a dinosaur can be reasoned with and won't just imemdiately go and eat everyone it encounters. It's another of the stupid moments, mostly because it suggests the next movie is basically going to be the Flintstones or a Planet Of The Apes clone.

Post-apocalyptic dinosaur wars might be an exciting idea, but it's just astonishing how we get to that ending, with another moment of melodrama that is entirely unsatisfactory and unearned when some dying dinosaurs are saved heroically. The fact that that basically escalates the single biggest problem Jurassic Park movies have always warned against (dinosaurs literally wanting to eat people), is just fully ignored.

It even feels like the final is setting up a solo spin-off movie about a dinosaur making his way through the cut-throat world of man and learning to adjust, because the ecological message is so badly garbled.

And not to the positives...