Great fun

Rating: 8/10 (12 June 2015)

20 years after the disastrous events at Jurassic Park, the late John Hammond's company finally have this business of breeding dinosaurs and keeping them efficiently contained in a nature theme park environment sorted. Consequently it is a complete surprise when things go horribly wrong at Jurassic World. Well, of course it is, obviously they never watched Westworld. Park boss Claire, who is supposed to be looking after her vacationing nephews, finds herself at odds with velociraptor trainer Owen, while security honcho Hoskins has his own agenda. Not that genetically engineered monster carnivore Indomitus Rex gives much of a monkey's.
Spielberg's Jurassic Park was a groundbreaker – believable photorealistic dinosaurs on screen! It is still a good film, albeit maybe a little leisurely in getting under way. Episode 2 was also relaxed in setting up the jeopardy, albeit the dinos were a lot busier, and there were more of them. Episode 3 didn't really catch fire for me.
But episode 4 starts off full pelt and never lets up. And it has a number of narrative arcs to follow, and they interweave nicely – it's not as empty as Mad Max: Fury Road, there is actually a plot to follow, not just eye candy. The action is non-stop, very well staged, and always convincing. And the final sequence is thrilling.
It is worth catching this in 3D: the 3D is excellent.