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Rating: 1/10 (27 June 2015)

This movie is mostly garbage.
It is mainly a giant advertisement for various companies. As I have only seen it once, I cannot list everyone of them. You might as well watch a Football game instead of this movie (without skipping the ads). The chief perpetrator is Mercedes, followed closely by the US army apparatus, Starbucks, Samsung and Pepsi.
The main actor, Chris Pratt, is the only reason the movie does not descend into a CBS news special. Dude is real as it comes. Bryce is a smidgen shy off campy and, even less shy of being in an episode of icarly. The Indian actor Irfan Khan tries his best, but still looks like he saying "I can't believe how douchy Hollywood really is." Vincent is convincing as a red neck. He is even touching himself in his first scene with Irfan, just as most hicks do when interacting with minorities.
The dialog is barely there, and often unnecessary, especially during the action. The monosyllables gutturally uttered snap you out of the scene.
The story line is unresolved. What happens to the Pterodactyls after they are done briefly mauling the crowd? Why is the crane mentioned while feeding the GM Dino, but never used in the story? How are the four Velociraptors hurt so often and come back for the climax, but only one leaves the scene? The one time they might have gotten hurt in the confusion of the climatic fight is when they were killed. The possible solution to the conundrum of the GM Dino is another GM dino who is not mentioned in the entire movie until the conclusion. Total Cop out. How does the fight move from central plaza of the very expensive theme park to the edge of the water containment of the Whale Dino, when most of the scenes have Bryce lying between the Dino's feet? Why pay homage to the first series at all - is Hollywood running out of money for what it can and cannot do and has to use an old set ?
Call me Crusty. But this is beyond bad.