Definitely the worst of the six films. Not really entertaining and seemed like a so-so effort to get the original cast and newer cast together.
Like there was no lead up to really having the old characters involved other than the were from the older films.
My favorite character was the pilot.
Seconded. This movie was so wasteful.
I think I am avoiding any real spoilers in the below, but it make run up against spoiler territory.
I'm not going to go through it all, but what just occurred to me this morning is that the opening sequence, which is Zia's only scene, should've been cut from the movie entirely. Start with whatever came after that. Franklin's job doesn't have to be new. His first scene there would introduce just fine that he has taken a new job. And the line about Claire still having a weird thing with Owen to which she replies "It isn't that weird".... The scene suggest that it is weird and Claire is just sensitive about it, but we see right after that that though there is certainly adjacent weirdness, the thing with Owen really ISN'T that weird. It looks like a committed, live-in relationship. Not secretive (ITSELF!), not on again, off again, not nebulous. They are a couple in love who lives together....
I had to go back to see if Dodgson was recast. He was. I recognized the last name immediately because Nedry shouts it over and over, but I honestly wasn't sure for quite a while if he was the same guy or a relative or something. I read Jurassic Park in about 1993, but I didn't remember Dodgson's first name and I see now that it isn't in the movie. When he got out the McGuffan, I was sure it was him, but then I have no idea how that came into his possession. And boy does Wong ever have a strange character arc across the saga.
The entire movie is a sequence of "Got this box checked, see? Look at this! Remember this? Look at this! Another box checked! Remember this?" Is there any reason at all for Malcolm's last line to Dodgson "Dodgson" while pointing at him other than because Nedry did that?
The two teams meeting up was always going to be a shallow pleasure. It was nice to do it anyway, but it wound up being a lot shallower than I imagined. Dadgum was Dr Grant ever boring. Malcolm's role in the movie makes zero sense. It doesn't track with his character in Jurassic Park and it certainly doesn't track with his character in Fallen Kingdom. And beside that, his use in this movie is so corny. I get it that Malcolm is an odd duck, but in this movie he seems never to really be able to keep his eye on the ball. He's just there to be a genius who says dumb things?
Cannot understand Dodgson at all. The big misstep whose investigation becomes the central plot doesn't hold enough water. What Dodgson meant to accomplish is unclear unless he's a moustache twirling cartoon villain. Most of the movie he doesn't seem to be, but then there is one quick scene where he sure appears to be. They don't flesh it out. But I don't think the investigation plot holds water either. I'm pretty sure the CIA could have figured out what was going on. There aren't a lot of people in the world who could be responsible for that. Ellie knows immediately.
A few dozen dinosaurs escaped from the auction in Fallen Kingdom and probably no breeding pairs. Perhaps they have that last bit covered. But the opening montage (which is WAY WAY WAY too on the nose to pose as an evening news show story) suggests that dinosaurs are all over the world now because of that escape and it just doesn't make sense. AGAIN, they may have it covered. There is grist for inference about another explanation, but it really never gets treated. A lot of movies they can leave it vague whether it has been 10 or more years, but a child actor pins it. I has to have been pretty close to the 4 years apart that the movie release is. Maisie still isn't a grownup. How long does it take a dinosaur to hatch and get full grown?
