Entertaining but too predictable:

Rating: 6/10 (5 December 2015)

This is a good popcorn, blockbuster flick along the same vein as the Michael Bay Transformers movies, but don't expect a great plot. In fact, if you've seen the original 1994 Jurassic Park (and who hasn't), then you by and large know what's going to happen already - park opens, everything is going fine, something goes wrong, kids get stuck in a 'vehicle', they get rescued, and then the dinosaurs take care of business at the end while the good guys escape off the island. And of course, someone part of the system (in this case, the actor who plays Kingpin from Daredevil) is self-serving and messes everything up by going off of protocol.
The CGI is excellent and I thought Chris Pratt did a good job as lead - he was definitely a bad ass. I thought the aunt who was supposed to take care of the kids was annoying as hell though. She was uptight and finally loosened up as the movie went on.
A couple of parts were kind of ridiculous, especially the Pterodactyls attacking the mass of park-goers stuck in the main area and some PDA at inopportune moments when their main concern should have been getting the hell out of there.
Overall it was pretty entertaining, but they really overdid playing the same scenes from the first movie (down to the pacing and position of the dinosaurs themselves). I don't see why this is rated as high as it is or why it's the 3rd highest grossing movie of all time, but it is what it is. Bottom line is grab your popcorn, watch some cool dinosaurs fight each other, and enjoy the movie but don't expect a good story - way too predictable.