When Hollywood thinks the audience is stupid

Rating: 4/10 (6 November 2018)

One of several things that were wrong about this movie was specifically with Julianne Moore's character that the script wanted so desperately to portray as a heroine but if you put her character's total work together, her character, Sarah is a total moron. Case in point the following:
1. Her character comes across as someone who knows her stuff about dinosaurs.
2. Her character argues about familial instinct in these dinosaurs.
3. Her character also argues that the T-Rex has the greatest smelling capacity of all but one animal ever.
4. Her character thinks she's so smart that she doesn't have to listen to common sense or heed warnings of danger that are obvious because you guessed it, she's a genius. We also know that characters like this end up being frustrating to watch in movies because they end up getting other characters killed.
What does she do?
1. Gets caught in a herd frenzy after scaring a young Triceratops that starts the movie.
2. Saves a baby T-Rex that has a broken leg, not realizing that the familial instinct that she so argued existed would put her and the people tasked to save her in jeopardy when the T-Rex parents caught the scent of their brood and showed up and promptly destroyed the research bus. Yes, killing one of them.
3. Her character then proceeds to wear a shirt with the baby T-Rex's blood on it as a trophy while arguing that the T-Rex's sense of smell is unparalleled. So who is surprised when the T-Rex shows up smelling the blood stained shirt (hanging from the tent ceiling) and proceeding to attack the tent and killing multiple people when the T-Rex's presence is made known. Well honestly, she is as surprised as anyone.
That truly was enough for me. Only in movies is arrogance combined with utter stupidity somehow written to not only survive but also ends up being one of the heroes in the end. Julianne Moore is a good actress. I have enjoyed her in several movies. Perhaps that was the goal and if that's the case, I say bravo but I doubt it was the goal. I was rooting for her character's demise from the beginning of the movie. You want a good movie, give the audience what they want and penalize stupidity and arrogance. In an environment where man is perceived to have to be perfect to survive, better and smarter than it's predator, it makes no sense how a character so obtuse should be standing in the end. This was one of the reasons the first Jurassic Park was so good. The smart characters were smart. Sam Neil's character knew what to do when thrust into a difficult situation. The dumb characters also got theirs in that movie. That's why you rooted for the heroes in that movie. In this movie, one hero (Pete Postlethwaite) isn't around in the end. His character has had enough of the shenanigans. The other, Goldblum, is simply the hero because he has to overcome all the other idiots in this movie.