Just Plain Terrible - Please Pay A lot to See Garbage

Rating: 3/10 (14 June 2015)

Ugh! Awful movie. One of the worst scripts ever, atrocious direction, overly stupid, cliché-ridden, ridiculous over and under acting, even the dinosaur design was meh (my son, who loves the original, was amazed that the raptors in the movie looked lame even compared to the original, which was made more than TWENTY YEARS AGO). Only actors to save face were Pratt and D'Onofrio. Pratt's part was so underwritten it could have been played by pretty much any actor (at least he seems like a decent person in real life). The part called for being stoic. That's it. Not even any Bruce Willis- type "Die Hard" lines. Terrible, terrible dialogue - embarrassingly so. Bryce Dallas Howard's part was so poorly written and clichéd (the writer seemed to be pretty misogynistic in light of how every woman in the movie was portrayed) and she obviously was directed to ham it WAY up. I wouldn't be surprised if this killed her career (I hope not, she's done terrific work in so many other films - but, in this one, she truly was awful). Spielberg should be ashamed at producing or having any involvement with this garbage - as bad if not worse than any piece of trash I have seen from Michael Bay. This clearly was just a big scheme to steal $$$ from the movie-going public with no interest in the work. I hope the writer and director never make another film again. What a ripoff and disappointment.