Dinosaurs Rule the World

Rating: 9/10 (25 August 2015)

I am a hardcore fan of this saga. Enough said on that.
So a fan always expects something mind-blowing and before I saw this movie everyone was complaining about the genetic modify hybrid dinosaur and why Collin dare not make the dinos important to the film?
As in every movie that impacts audience - As Jurassic Park did back in the day -, news like this burns Troy to the ground.
But really. What do the audience expect for a sci-fi movie of genetic modify animals that where long gone?
I think today, we, as moviegoers, live in a nostalgic era. Where "how you dare do this?! You have no right!" are the mantra and "you need to do this in order to work. Got it?".
It's true that moviegoers had influence the producers in order to change somethings for the sake of a good flick, whatever that is. But moviegoers are not producers and the majority of them doesn't know nothing of making a movie and storytelling. They just want more of the same, mostly for nostalgic reasons. Nothing more.
And that's exactly what this movie talks about.
It touches nostalgic strings but at the same time, it gives them what they want: more rampage, more kills, more, more more...
And whats more of that? A dino that has it all! And while we are dealing whit sci-fi genetics. Why not make an intelligent hybrid dinosaur with different parts of animals (dinos and actual living creatures)?
Few people know that Jurassic Park was believe to be a big flop. No one gave a penny for its success, not to mention the Dino-Mania that followed.
But this is no the first time that JP touches a genetic modify dinosaur. In The Lost World book it has something of that. So no crime there, is just... something new in the theater.
But the movie is not perfect, is cheesy at times, with clichè characters and predictable outcomes.
But is not the clichè that bother me. Is the acting. the way each actor developed their character. Because - and this is just to make a point - in the original film each character are clichè versions of other versions. Just felt new at the time for a plot that had never being treat it like that before and because the script made very good job in introducing the audience to this world.
But... What kind of characters this kind of movie needs?. Well everyone is entitled of their opinion, but the truth is in an adventure movie of this sort the characters that we saw in this film are the same ones we saw in Indiana Jones, Back to the Future. Perhaps better acted than in this one. But the same structure non the less.
For me the worst performance in this film is the brother of Gray (Ty Simpkins), Zach (Nick Robinson). This is a character (and actor) that need it to be as much pain in the ass as possible. As in the-worst-brother/human being ever. He feels like a soap opera actor.
Now, Is it really this movie that predictable?
We already know that something will go wrong, we bought the idea that that's who it's going to turn out. We our not going to see this intricate subversive plot about why life needs to find a way to show us that life cannot be contained.
It touches those themes in the same way as the original, but that's what bothers many people. They compare this movie with the original. They're not. And that's how it supposed to be.
True this movie could've being more nostalgic than it is - or tries to be (I don't think is the case) - it points out a new point of view. The way on who humans deals with nature now a days and that's a new take on this saga.
The movie take us in to the idea that people think they're just creatures but in reality they feel and scent. And that's why the insanity of the I Rex shines with all his glory. Is no just a monster movie just to be that. It has arguments to sustain that.
In regards of the SFX, true they don't like the original dinos in JP, the look more... CGI-ish, and there's almost no practical effects. Is it?
I've seen really talented guys that somehow their talent shined while the making of this film, and others that didn't but talented non the less; and I'm sure that their gifts could've made this movie more good looking in regards of the SFX than it is.
It' really is that bad?
I don't thinks so.
True some times doesn't look as realistic as their predecessors (in most cases), but they're decent enough to buy that they're living breathing creatures.
The Score is excellent but the editing of this movie felt as if this to departments (music and editing) never met, while there're good moments between this two, there're bad ones, like in the very end of the movie, when we see the island and the we see the Rex climbing through the helicopter tower to reclaim her throne. That transition (from the island and the heli-tower felt abrupt in such a manner that made me think the music was cut with no regards of the impact.
As a sci-fi adventure movie, sure thing you will have a fun time and a nice ride and I guarantee it you will see it again.
As a hardcore fan, well... depends on how you define "fan", if you don't take this too seriously, then you will love it.