Not as good as the first, but still amazing

Rating: 8/10 (11 June 2015)

It's not as good as the first one, obviously, because the first one is what set the bar. The way it was put together with the music of John Williams made it one of the best movies I have ever seen.
However, as long as you go in with that knowledge, I think you will enjoy it. It's similar to the premise of the original - people go into park, dinosaur gets loose, people die, and the audience gets a thrill. It's similar in that respect. However, Jurassic World was a larger scale of that. There are more people in the park, the dinosaur that escapes is bigger and more vicious, and there are pterodactyls that escape. Add that with the larger crowds in the park, and you have complete and total chaos. Which is something that Jurassic Park had, but not on this scale. However, some scenes that refer to the original Jurassic Park (the main building, T-Rex smashing through the skeleton, and the T-Rex having the last roar in the film), remind us that while it is not just the same story, it is a continuation of the original.
The thing that really disappoints me is that John Williams didn't compose for this film. However, Michael Giacchino follows him, and does it in such a way that you still feel connected in that aspect. Which why I only deducted 2 from here, instead of 5.