A trip back to Jurassic yields more of the same: countless clichés, extreme silliness and Nostradamus-like predictability

Rating: 2/10 (30 August 2015)

Ugh. This was bad. Horrifically bad. I'm not even sure where to start, except to say it is so pathetic that this is what block busters have become nowadays. It's such a shame that most of Hollywood has absolutely no idea what a good movie is anymore, as they keep churning out this pathetic crap.
There were so many clichés in this movie that I lost count. First, you had brothers that have that certain age difference that they have grown apart, only to become closer before our very eyes as they fight to survive the chaos. Their Aunt (Claire), who manages the park and is supposed to look after them, is so self-consumed in her work that she has almost no value for life and has none of her own. The only available helicopter pilot just so happens to be an inexperienced one. Owen, the Raptors' trainer and movie bad-ass, is also romantically linked to Claire. I could go and on. And unfortunately with so many clichés, the movie became just one silly and predictable hot mess.
At over 2 hours in length, the movie really drags on and became sillier and sillier as time passed. There were only 4 Raptors, but they were EVERYWHERE, in every scene, all over the island. It was ridiculous. Oh, and how does one kill a Raptor/Rex hybrid named Indominus Rex? Find a T-Rex and release it so they can fight it out of course!! Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? And of course the T-Rex, after defeating the Indominus with the help of a Mesosaurus (ugh) and a few Raptors, is intelligent enough to leave everyone else alone and just walk away into the sunset. LOL Yeah, that really happened in this movie. Is that silly enough for you?
My favorite part of the movie had nothing to do with dinosaurs or lead characters, and it lasted less than 30 seconds. Near the end of the movie when they started evacuating the control room, a guy 'courageously' declared that he was going to stay back because 'somebody has too'. He then went in to kiss his co-worker and right before he planted his lips, she stopped him and said she has a boyfriend! LOL Now, if only the writers could have approached this script with that kind of creativity. And don't blame me if I thought this was the movie's best scene, I'm not the one that produced this garbage.
I truly don't think that Hollywood could lower the bar any further with releases like this and Mad Max. But, I guess if you lower the bar far enough, it makes the mediocre crap look good. Maybe that's their plan. Because the opposite, where they actually think this is worthwhile entertainment, would be more troubling.