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Rating: 7/10 (12 June 2015)

I just saw this movie, and upon reading these reviews I'm seeing a lot of people downplaying this movie for hypocritical reasons.
First of all: let's get it out of the way that it was an enjoyable movie.
I'm seeing people complaining about how repetitive and predictable the plot was, while JP1/2 were superior. Are we suffering from nostalgia here? I think you're remembering these movies in a better light than they actually were. Let's keep in mind that the Jurassic Park franchise was brand spanking new with unbelievable special effects two decades ago; lifelike special effects don't wow like they used to- they're commonplace. Moreover, in the first trilogy the forward motion of the plots/events was almost entirely predicated at every point by someone doing the most moronic thing you could think of for the given situation. That is where the suspense and drama came from in the earlier movies... COMPLETELY by the characters being morons who got themselves in to danger, where otherwise any even modestly intelligent human would not, and narrowly escaping.
Jurassic World manages to move the plot without making the audience yell at the characters' for their incomprehensible stupidity. It also continues most of the themes from the previous movies. As well as being an amalgam of story arcs from all the previous movies, without losing the entertainment.