Trite and stupid, but with a few good moments

Rating: 6/10 (21 October 2015)

Everything about this movie is hackneyed and tired, from the characters, to the music, to the CGI. The premise of "super dinosaurs" is just fundamentally stupid and insulting. I guess the makers envisioned the inner monologue of the average movie fan like so:
"Derrrr, another Jurassic Park movie. I've seen dinosaurs before. Who cares? ...
-Wait. It says here they're SUPER dinosaurs. Like, genetically enhanced ones. THAT'S something I haven't seen before. Where do I sign up?"
The dinosaurs being SUPER dinosaurs isn't even relevant to the plot and makes no real difference to the movie. The whole concept of the original movie, which made it a winner, was the pitting of humans against creatures who once walked the Earth. Who will win? The fact that the makers went out of their way to create the most realistic specimens ever seen made the experience all the more special.
In this case we have an "indomitus rex" or some such rubbish, just like the original t-rex but, er, SUPER. The fact that whatever about it is SUPER is not even really shown or explored in the movie suggests that part of the plot was just to sell tickets and convince people they were seeing something different.
The depiction of the raptors is also all wrong. Over twenty years later and they're not anywhere near as scary as they were in the original movie. Maybe it's the crap CGI or the way they're depicted as quasi- soldiers, I don't know.
Lastly, the music. I am really tired of the orchestral scores movies like this use to heighten the action/suspense. It. All. Sounds. The. Same. I noticed it all the way through Fury Road as well. I think composers hit a wall with that stuff twenty years ago and now they're just reheating the same old stuff. Do filmmakers even need to pay a composer to come up with a score these days? Why not just use another movie's? It's all exactly the same anyway.
All that said, this movie does have a few moments where I felt the tension, and unlike Fury Road, at least I could understand what was going on from one scene to the next, though the moment when the dinosaurs get the upper hand on the park-goers is kind of rushed. It seems way too easy.