The Dinosaurs are back !

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2015)

I grew up watching the Jurassic Park trilogy, so I was really excited to see the giants back on the big screen. This movie is everything the trailer promised it would be : a 2-hour silly but entertaining dinosaurs-filled, action-packed adventure film! I was worried it would have too many cheesy one-liners and one-dimensional, helpless, annoying characters but it does a good job of avoiding those weaknesses : the few jokes are well timed and actually funny and I found myself caring for most of the main protagonists. It's true that it is not particularly innovative compared to the previous trilogy : there are a lot of similarities between this film and 1993's Jurassic Park; some of them are clearly intentional and meant as a homage, which was kind of a nice touch I thought. If I had to complain, I would say that the director overused the famous close-up shot of a carnivore's head approaching and sniffing its human prey. And I would have preferred an R rating : there is remarkably very few blood for a movie about giants beasts tearing humans into pieces ! 8/10