Fun to watch, but poorly written

Rating: 6/10 (14 June 2015)

Just found out this movie had a 2nd highest-grossing opening EVER. This troubles me, because the machinery of Hollywood supports movies that are properly marketed. And this is being perpetuated by such a smashing financial success.
I was yet another person who paid $17 to see this the night before it "opened". The most satisfying part of the experience was the fancy unique 3-D glasses that I received. I can use them to watch all 3-D movies in the future.
SCRIPT and DIALOGUE take a backseat these days... to MARKETING. As long as it makes money, who cares if the story is weak? This is the tragic rationale behind almost all new movies.
And yet I can easily think of so many little tweaks that would have made the execution of the story far more satisfying.
***********SPOILERS AHEAD***********
The main villain in the movie is apparently the Indominus Rex, but it should be really be a human: Hoskins.
In an anticlimactic moment, Hoskins surprises the protagonists in the lab with the typical "hahaha I am evil and this was my plan all along" confession. Then a raptor shows up and kills him. Well, he bites his arm and we don't see the rest. Then we never hear from Hoskins again.
I was expecting Hoskins to show up riding on the back of the Indominus with an amputated arm/or maybe has a way to remotely control it, or any reversal that displays Hoskins as the ultimate villain. Instead we got a boringly derivative ending that was painfully similar to Jurassic Park & Jurassic Park III.
Even with this ending, it is further ruined by the fact that the sea dinosaur that jumps out of the water to deliver the killing blow was already given away when it swallowed up the flying dinosaur and the British girl. Then it shows up AGAIN to eat the Indominus, so it doesn't come across as an effective surprise (compared to the T. Rex which saves the day at the end of Jurassic Park... a reversal done correctly).
There are fundamental issues with exposition and reversals that should have no place in a movie this huge. This is script writing 101 and I am stunned that it is of no importance for such high-budget movies.
The only reversal that works -- when the raptors betray Pratt and turn on the humans -- is made completely meaningless because at the end, when the movie blatantly copies Jurassic Park with raptors closing in on the protagonists... he SWEET TALKS the raptor into turning back on the Indominus. May as well be a cartoon on Nickelodeon at this point because that's written for 5-year olds. I mean this is Power Rangers-quality writing.
They could have simply skipped this moment. Instead, have Claire scream "run away" and let the dinosaurs duke it out. Meanwhile, she releases the T. Rex all the same, the slow-motion running on heels is classic, I loved that part. But she doesn't do it as a heroic effort to save the kids and Pratt but as the only way to defeat Indominus. It would be even better if she sacrifices herself at this juncture. Maybe a little harsh, but she was portrayed as a rather stringent and corrupt character who is ultimately responsible for all these deaths (along with Hoskins). To me, a far more satisfying end than some cheesy, forced romance with Pratt. The romance only makes sense if Claire ends up dying.
I also would have enjoyed more gore & dinosaurs-killing-tourists terror to give this movie an R rating and a horror element which would contrast beautifully with the shiny amusement park feel that is so finely conveyed at the start of the movie. But that may be a matter of personal taste.