Not nearly as bad as some critics think it is, this was a fun and entertaining movie.

Rating: 8/10 (7 September 2015)

I waited a year for this movie, I'm a huge fan of the Jurassic Park saga and the dinosaurs in general. And when I entered the theaters for the first time to see it, I liked it, it was good but not great. Then I saw it again: good but not great. I saw it a third time and... good but not great.
Let's talk about the things I didn't liked. While the CGI looks fine, there's an over-reliance on it. When looking at the first film, the CGI and animatronics looks stunning, even when compared with most modern films, it holds up really well. Here, they only used 1 animatronic for the apatosaurus head and that's it. They had head models for the raptors, but they put CGI over them and they looked not as real as they could have been.
The story, while consistent, has some issues. The divorce subplot feels unnecessary, the movie could have done without it and it would have worked fine. The movie could have spent more time showing the park, because they went out of their way to make it believable, they made it really well. The military subplot also is not needed. About the characters, I have to say: I would have liked more from some of them. Wu needed more depth as well as Hoskins.
Now the good things, and there's plenty. Chris Pratt is AWESOME. He was a great character that doesn't disappoint. Great in the action scenes and in the dialogue. Brice Dallas Howard was really good on the role, she delivered a good performance. The kids aren't annoying at all and they acted well. This is a well acted movie in general. The relationship between Owen and the pack of raptors was very well handled. They knew there was a fine line between respectful and stupid and they were respectful all the time. These raptors are portrayed as wild creatures and in more than one occasion they try to kill Owen. The indominus rex, the knew dino-hybrid was cool, she was really cool. It had a good reason to be like she was and it had some truly unexpected abilities, like camouflage and temperature changing. All the action scenes with dinosaurs are great. The ending with t rex vs Blue the raptor vs I rex vs mosasaurus is spectacular and awesome. The score by Michael Giachino is really good, delivering the best interpretation of "welcome to Jurassic Park" out of Willims, and also introduces really good scores.
So overall, is a very decent film, not even close to the perfect masterpiece of the first one, but is much better than the third one and at least as good as the second one. Is action packed, fun blockbuster entertainment. Check it out if you have the chance, just stay away from the Hasbro Jurassic world toy line, because it sucks.
7.5/10.