Meh

Rating: 4/10 (14 September 2015)

So I watched it at the cinema. In 3D. And it's... meh...
First of all, the 3D was very tiresome for my eyes. Never happened to me before, definitely not on such level. Maybe also has to do with the fact that I didn't sleep well at night and was pretty tired (almost fell asleep a few times during the movie).
The movie itself is pretty boring, so basically we're left with CGI, which is pretty good, but that doesn't make a movie you enjoy watching. Lots of dinosaur action scenes, some people getting killed - but you wouldn't care for any of them.
At one point I thought I was watching "Aliens" - it was if the screenwriter took the script for "Aliens" and used it word for word. I'm speaking of the scene in which the people at the command center are watching the "military" guys fighting, each has his own POV camera and a heart monitor - the situation is IDENTICAL and so is pretty much the dialog too.
At another point I thought I was watching "Alien Resurrection", with the main dinosaur being a hybrid of a T-Rex, a cuttlefish, a Frog and a raptor. It's a new kind of the species, made by genetic modification/hybrid.
What I mostly liked about the movie was the vision of "Jurassic World" as a fully working theme park. It had some nice touches there, with some nice attractions, some of them are just as gimmicky/clichéd as you'd expect from a theme park.
Of the cast, Chris Pratt is the only one doing a worthy acting job. Vincent D'Onofrio wastes his amazing talent, as expected.
It was actually a noon-screening, so there were lots of children too, which seemed to enjoy it although I thought some scenes could too intense/scary for them.
All in all, it's an average movie at best.