Hollywood at its best

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2018)

In the fourth installment in the science-fiction Jurassic Park series: a tourist dinosaur park runs into trouble when a genetically modified creature breaks out of her confined area.
This is one of those big-budget Hollywood blockbusters that's really worth seeing. The set design of the park is breathtaking as are the special effects. Director Colin Trevorrow has done a great job with mega-crowd scenes and multiple thrills.
The buildup to the action/adventure is also surprisingly fascinating. The story takes a shot against the radical bigger-is-better greed and its corresponding interference with nature: something that is rampant in our modern corporate world. (This is ironic as the movie is coming from one of the biggest forms of this mindset: big-budget Hollywood movie-making.)
Once the action takes place, this theme disappointingly dissipates. While character development almost always takes the back seat in such movies, there could have at least been a confrontation against one of the characters (or even the showing of remorse) on the trouble she helped create. In addition, some of the performances are also disappointing.
However, "Jurassic World" is big-budget Hollywood at its best. Overall, it sets out to entertain and it does so quite well.
RATING: * * *
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS: Special Effects, Set Design