Satisfying

Rating: 7/10 (20 June 2015)

It's strange. As I was sitting in the bus on my way home the plot deficiencies started coming to me. I could not put my finger on it, but something seemed to escape me. Storywise there was nothing in Jurassic World to elevate above the usual action flicks, no unique plot to really make it stand out. Looking back I started to feel empty. And yet as I was sitting in the cinema none of that really bothered me. These feelings came only later but as I was watching the film I felt completely satisfied. As far as action movies go I would easily put it amidst the best of the year.
But returning to the plot, first with the major negatives:
1.) Simple Plot. The story is fairly straightforward - they make a giant killer dinosaur, she escapes and wreaks havoc. Storywise nothing else happens. It could work, but only with more memorable characters that leap out of the screen. And while Jurassic World has good performances it does not have the kind of characters to make up for the simple story. And that is the biggest fault of the film.
2.) Clair and Owen's romance. When he kissed her it just came completely out of nowhere. Sure, it is established a bit that they once kind of, sort of had a thing, but that is never built up and their romance is entirely superfluous to the story.
3.) Dinosaur intelligence. Just how intelligent are they supposed to be? First Indominus Rex makes the velociraptors switch allegiance, even though she is supposed to have no social skills. Then the velociraptors waver in their allegiance, turn against Indominus Rex and have an "understanding" with T. Rex. It's just all too anthropomorphic for a supposedly serious film.
With the bad out of the way here is what I really liked about the film:
1.) How they explained the name Indominus Rex. It's just so perfect and self aware.
2.) Masrani seeing Indominus Rex for the first time. It was the perfect first reveal of a monster.
3.) Owen's character. He is probably the saving grace of this movie.
4.) Final fight between Indominus Rex and T. Rex.
So in the end Jurassic World - definitely one of the summer must- see's, a good action film but storywise don't expect too much.