Cynical, self loathing parody of the original.

Rating: 2/10 (11 October 2015)

I don't have a problem with action movies, I judge them on whether they're entertaining enough to make me forget in the moment how actually ridiculous and overblown they are. Jurassic World fails miserably. The whole deal is predicated on idiocy and over relies on cheap attempts at recreating scenes from the original, as if going with the same score makes up how dimwitted it is and will in and of itself inspire the same wonder. The effects are garbage, nothing ever actually looks like it's happening in the same space. The characters are fairly cardboard and most conversations feel like they're happening in separate spaces. They wait three quarters of the movie to reveal a detail about the Big Bad New Dinosaur that was obvious from the first time they talked about the thing. If you even half paid attention to the original then everything in this one is 100% predictable. Stay home and watch the original since it still holds up.