A Fun Movie That Gets Worse the More you Think About it

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2015)

Jurassic World has pretty much everything a summer blockbuster should have to merit watching it purely for the enjoyment of the movie-going experience. The effects are great, there are some tense action scenes, and the movie manages to recapture some of that JP magic, if only for a few brief moments. It's unfortunate, then, that Jurassic World has so many problems, most notably with its script.
The primary incident, for instance, is entirely borne of our idiotic cast, who time and time again fumble and end up squarely in the jaws of the dinosaurs. Any logical approach to the crisis is ignored or magically deflected, and plot threads vanish mysteriously, never to return.
The movie will have you asking questions like: Why did Claire decide to send people into the dino pen when they didn't know where the dino was, and they had a tracking beacon? Why would you send a team of people after a 50ft long dinosaur with little more than cattle prods? Why did Owen and Claire decide to spend five minutes easing a dinosaur to its death when the two kids they're supposed to be looking for are in certain peril? Why didn't the helicopter's minigun have any effect on the escaped dinosaur after it was riddled with bullets? Why, when the strike team had it cornered with the raptors near the end, did nobody decide "yeah now's the time to fire all of our rockets"? Why does Owen use such an impractical weapon that he spends more time reloading in the one scene where it gets significant use? Where did the pterodactyls that were released from the glass dome go after wreaking havoc on everything? How did Claire outrun a T-Rex in heels? Where did the Asian head scientist go after hell broke loose in the labs? All these questions and more you'll be asking yourself, and it makes it hard to see the movie in a good light. It's definitely a movie to watch in 3D, on the largest possible screen, but unfortunately not one to think too hard on, lest you become frustrated.