An average movie at best

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2015)

It is hard trying not to sound too negative when talking about Jurassic World. Like the majority of people who will go see this, I very much enjoyed the first Jurassic Park. The movie was ahead of its time and brought the books to life in an interesting way.
The sequels Lost World and Jurassic Park 3 were entertaining, but most will agree they did not live up to the name of the original.
Jurassic World could only get made because of the time span between the last installment and the present. Unfortunately the movie is a cash grab, riding on the success of the franchise and little else.
Story - instead of choosing the angle "imagine this technology existed" to boggle the minds of the audience as they did in the original, Jurassic World glosses over this pretty quickly. Statements made in the movie like "kids are used to seeing dinosaurs" are bizarre, given that the park has only opened for a few years max. Even if we could clone eg. mammoths in real life (there are some still preserved in ice), humanity would be "wowed" for decades to come.
The movie chooses the route of a generic predictable action movie: we have our heroes, who we know are immortal in the story, our clichÃ© love interest, our witty one-liners after or during traumatizing events, and one or more villains who - of course - die at the end. The story follows the typical rules so the audience is not disturbed, such as not to kill off any innocent characters that we have a connection with. People that die are either annoying or evil, or are just never introduced to us properly.
The main purpose of the plot is to show a range of different dinosaurs in different scenarios, without a real connection between the scenes. The human interaction in the movie is kept to a minimum, and has little importance. This could be OK, but the story as it stands is too disconnected and lacks a sense of direction. Personally it felt like a story that two children or stoned people made up: "and then they try to shoot the dino with a machine gun from a helicopter" "Yeah but let's make them miss their target and crash. How though?" "oh i know! the big dino runs into an aviary full of flying dinos!" ...etcetera
To sum up: the story just isn't believable. The franchise has so much more potential.
Presentation - Being a big budget movie, the stress was on special effects. There are some very cool shots and actions scenes, but others fail. The CGI is not as convincing as I had hoped (for example the too bright eyes of the velociraptors, it made them look fake). It is like the dino's had a certain shiny look over them. Even some of the models in the first movie looked better.
Also the movie overused the shaky action cam - resulting in several blurry action scenes. And it was obvious this movie was created with 3D in mind, which makes it feel more like a ride in a theme park than an actual movie to re-watch at home on your TV.
Sound & Music - I'd say this is the best part of the movie. The roars sounded good and the score added to the atmosphere. Excellent.
Conclusion: The movie is perfectly average. You will want to have seen it just once, to be able to say you have seen it, but you will have little desire to ever watch it again. It just has no depth at all.
If you are into action flicks- then this will be more up your ally. If you care for well-thought-out stories (like me), you will be disappointed.