Lazy Film Critic reviews...
Jurassic World is the reboot of the Jurassic Park series, having been fourteen years after the last film, and twenty two years since the last good film in the series. This film is directed by Colin Trevorrow, who also made Safety Not Guarenteed (a film I love), and stars Chris Pratt & Bryce Dallas Howard. This film is set way after the events of the first movie, and essentially ignores the other two (rightfully so), being set after Jurassic Park (now called Jurassic World) has opened to the public. However, as theme parks do, they have to keep adding more stuff because people are stubborn and get bored easily, which leads them to creating this super predator, which of course manages to break out and causes mass terror.
Now, the first thing you gotta know about Jurassic World is that this is by no means a Jurassic Park movie. A better way of describing it would be that it's a monster movie set within the storyline of Jurassic Park, because everything about this movie works like a monster movie. The genetic hybrid known as the "Indominus Rex" is essentially the deadliest thing ever created, and causes chaos throughout Jurassic World. So, in that, if you go into this expecting riveting discussions about nature, and evolution, and playing god, you won't get that. However, it's clear that that's not what Jurassic World was trying to be, this movie is trying to be a monster movie. And in being a monster movie, I think Jurassic World mostly succeeded, and turned out to be a pretty entertaining movie, even if it has some big flaws.
Jurassic World has a lot of good things going for it, I don't want this to sound like a bad review. For starters, the action in this movie is really well done, whenever this monster of a dinosaur is on or even off screen, you feel a lot of tension for the characters trying to survive this thing, which is the ultimate predator. There's also the fact that it's not the only dinosaur in the movie, which leads to some pretty cool action sequences, most of which involve Chris Pratt. Speaking of Chris Pratt, he did an awesome job in the lead role of this movie. He was likable, he was funny, but he was also a bit of a badass, but he also isn't typecast in this role, this is a very different role from Guardians of the Galaxy, which I liked to see. This and Guardians have essentially solidified Chris Pratt as an action star, and I'm glad that has happened.
However, this movie is far from perfect. One of the biggest problems to me with this movie was the writing, both dialogue and character wise. In terms of the dialogue, there are a lot of really cheesy and cartoony moments with some of the lines in this movie, and not cheesy in a good "Army of Darkness" way, because it doesn't work with the rest of the films serious tone. As for the characters writing, these characters are very carbon cut characters, and seem really cliched. Chris Pratt essentially plays the adventurer tough guy, Bryce Dallas Howard plays the obsessive business person, and the two kids in this movie are almost no different from the kids in the first movie, except here they serve even less purpose.
Final Rating
I know I just listed a lot of flaws with Jurassic World, however that should by no means mean you shouldn't go. It's not a great movie, but it's certainly a good movie, and probably worth your time. If you want to see a good monster movie this weekend, or just something entertaining that may give you some callings to your childhood, then totally go check out Jurassic World.
Jurassic World
3.7/5
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