Good special effects v Poor acting

Rating: 5/10 (27 July 2016)

This was an OK movie with some amazing special effects. The Dinosaurs seemed very real and believable. There are more than a few jump out of your seat moments and some of the kills made me question the 12 certificate.
Sadly the same cannot be said of most of the actors. I am not sure if it was just a poor script but it seemed like amateur night had been made into a movie. Apart from the Dinosaurs it all fell flat whenever a real person appeared.
Bryce Dallas Howard was just awful, she seemed uncomfortable and not convincing in anything she did. Irrfan Khan seemed like a caricature of every Indian actor ever.
Chris Pratt was OK and Vincent D'Onofrio probably the best of a bad bunch.
BD Wong seems the same character in everything he is in and has an annoying habit of smiling at just about everything.
Both the main child actors were nauseatingly bad and I cannot really be even referred to as actors.
There were lots of plot holes and the ending was pretty predictable, it was almost a complete copy of the original JP movie but not done as well.