Film Review - Jurassic World (2015)

Jurassic World is the newest film in the Jurassic Park series and this Dr Hammond's (the late Richard Attenborough) vision of a fully realized Dinosaur theme park from the 1993 original film has come to fruition but the attendance is starting to shrink so the Park engineers create Indominous Rex to boost ticket sales but Owen (Chris Pratt) isn't comfortable with this idea fearing it will go on the loose.

Jurassic World is merely okay and a lot of this is due to Pratt himself (he is the glue that really holds this film together) he is extremely likeable here and I was reminded of a young Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks rolled into one plus his character is pretty much the only character in this film with any level of intelligence or practical thinking (he actually feels like a real person) whereas the other humans are just knockoffs of the human characters from the original film.

Oh and Vincent D'Onofrio is good here even though he looks a lot like Joe Hockey.

But my principal problem here is that the film in just about every 2nd or 3rd scene shoves in a reference to Jurassic Park and this film pales very very heavily in comparison with Steven Spielberg's film as the story here is not that interesting (it's basically the same plot as the first film.)

And the endless references to the first film really started make me think after a while "Why am I not watching the original film" because at least that film did something neat with the Dinosaurs whereas here they feel like soulless CGI creations that you don't find interesting, I kept wishing Grimlock from Fall of Cyberton would show up in the climax and basically destroy everything, kill everyone and end the film.

But you know the more I've thought about this movie the more I begin to feel just how much it exemplifies this current era of films we live in right now, it has a fanboy for a hero, its loaded with nostalgia for the past and it tries to go for bigger and better Dino battles at the expense of any human emotional connection (not to mention the fact that the middle range budget films like Wall Street or When Harry Met Sally have been pretty much made extinct save for the arthouse and independent markets.)

And that is Jurassic World which is only worth seeing for Pratt, 2 out of 5.