Great special FX, Average movie

Rating: 5/10 (24 January 2016)

Seen the movie twice now, first time at the cinema in June, and the second time on DVD just a week ago. I wanted to wait before I reviewed this movie, to reflect about it a bit first.
I had pretty high hopes for the movie to be a good one, since I liked the past episodes of JP a lot. But it really didn't get me. The positive side is the special FX, really good and well crafted cgi. My favorite scene is when the boys goes on the tour with the gyrosphere and go off-road, ending up right on the I-Rex, lurking on them. That scene is the movie highlight for me. The Mosasaur is a nice acquaintance too, though a very short one unfortunately. We didn't get to see that creature that much. A pity. The acting of Chris Pratt and the two boys are pretty good too. They do their job. The guy with the old JP t-shirt to. However Bryce Dallas Howards character (Claire) felt really unrealistic. Not meaning to criticise her as an actor, but the character she played (which is not her fault). The character was a Park operation manager that did not know a thing about dinosaurs and what was happening around her. She also seemed to feel no enthusiasm for working with the animals overall in the park. How she would ever get that job from the beginning is a total mystery for me, and makes a plot hole for the movie. Also the character Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a sort of a question mark for me. So eagerly convinced that the military would have a major use of raptors. To make them to some kind of superior co-soldier/weapon in future wars? Really dull if you ask me. Also in the movie the old park building from the first JP movie was left untouched..degraded... No one ever noticed it until the boys bump in to it. Wouldn't it have been made to a museum at least and not just left like that? Overall the movie was an average ride. I would have given it 4 of 10 stars first but ended up giving it 5 at least. For me the earlier Jurassic Park Movies were much greater, the first and the second movie especially. I also prefer the third one before this, though it's (for me) unfairly low reputation. That one had a lot humor in it and also a nice flow through the entire movie. A great adventure ride that JW misses to deliver, even if the CGI is top notch. But a movie cannot rely on only CGI.