Entertaining, brainless action/adventure flick. Pour Jurassic Park movie

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2015)

Last evening I finally got to go at the cinema to watch this movie. As a child I was always interested in dinosaurs. I bought dinosaur books, bought dinosaur figures and watched every available cartoon and movie.
In 1993 Jurassic Park was released. At first I was a bit reticent to watch the movie as I thought the whole idea of cloning dinosaurs was stupid. But once I saw the movie I was instantly hooked. It made me buy both books Jurassic Park and Jurassic World. While the first movie was great, I found the book even better. I also found The Lost World a great book and had great expectations about the second movie. Unfortunately the movie turned out to be a bit dull. It had some elements it didn't need, and even elements that totally screwed the credibility of the movie, as the gymnastics scene with Kelly and the raptors. In contrast to most people, I fount Jurassic Park 3 even a better movie.
However, Jurassic World suffers from the same incredible flaws. At first there is all the high tech stuff in the park itself. As the events are supposed to take place nowadays, why did they have to cram it with high tech monorails, touch screen panels that are prone to failure, holograms and those gyroscopic balls? Speaking of those balls: would a park really let teens roll around freely around animals that weigh tons?
Besides that, the original Jurassic Park was kept secret and therefore could be real. Jurassic World instead already had thousands of visitors over the past few year, even needed to come up with a new dinosaur to keep the visitors coming, but no one ever heard of the park.
I know this all sounds like nitpicking, but it's these elements that gave Jurassic Park a certain credibility that Jurassic World lacks. Also the ending is way over the top and wouldn't look out of place in a Michael Bay movie, although I have to admit I don't mind watching a Michael Bay movie. The problem is I watch a Michael Bay movie to see some brainless action scenes with spectacular SFX that don't need a intriguing story. I watch a Jurassic Park movie because of the suspense, clever story and feeling this could all be real. This is what Jurassic World is lacking.
Finally I have a problem with the characters. Most of them just can't be taken seriously. Masrani (Irrfan Khan) is funny, but seems completely incompetent to run a billions business. And did he really have to fly the chopper himself to hunt down the Indominus Rex because of his instructor suddenly having evacuated the island, without the chopper?
I also found Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) trying too hard to play 'the aunt that's too busy to look after her nephews'.
Also I can imagine the movie needed a bad guy, but Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Henry Wu (BD Wong) made it sound as if the Indominus Rex escaped on purpose to take control of the park. Instead the movie showed the escape was series of unfortunate events that are very unlikely to happen on purpose.
In the end I think Jurassic World was an entertaining blockbuster. I didn't get bored as it was fast paced, like most Hollywood movies nowadays, but I feel like this pace is used to conceal the lacking story. The original Jurassic Park didn't need that pace. It used quiet moments to build up tension and to get to know the characters and care about them.
All in all Jurassic World is a decent action/adventure movie with nice FSX, but as a Jurassic Park movie it just isn't that great.
Rated as a action/adventure movie I would give it 9 stars. Rated as a Jurassic Park movie I would give it 3 stars.