Jurassic World (2015) Review

           Jurassic World (2015) is the fourth movie in the series that just came out in theaters. None of the original characters in the first one reappear here except for the character of Dr. Henry Wu (played by B.D. Wong), who is the head of the team that created the dinosaurs for the park. In this movie, the island Isla Nublar (the setting of the first movie) has been expanded and transformed into an amusement park named 'Jurassic World'. Unfortunately, things don't go well as a creature named Indominus rex runs rampant across the park, and of course, the humans need to figure out a way to stop it before it kills hundreds of innocent tourists.

           How are the dinosaurs this time around? Because I'm sure that's what a lot of people are going to want to be seeing when they go see this movie. In the first two, it used both CGI and robotics for the dinosaurs which looked great. The third one used CGI and a small amount of robotics as well, but they looked like shit. They didn't seem convincing at all. For 'Jurassic World', it's all CGI this time around. No animatronics. And my God, they look freaking amazing here! It's the best, most convincing dinosaurs I've seen on screen yet. It usually feels like I wasn't seeing computer imagery, but real critters. It's that damn good. The action scenes were also very fun and brought in a great amount of tension.

           The main protagonist here is Owen Grady (played by Chris Pratt) who is a velociraptor expert and trainer. Chris Pratt did such a great job in his role. He brought in just the right amount of confidence and sternness to his character. I definitely look forward to seeing him in more future roles. By the way, one of my very favorite scenes in the entire movie was when he was spending a bit of time training the raptors. It was amazing! Bryce Dallas Howard also did a good job playing the park operations manager.

           'Jurassic World', I'm afraid isn't without its flaws. I really didn't care for the two kids in the movie. They were just kind of obnoxious, and for each scene they're in, the movie just went downhill for me. Also, sadly, this is one of the movies that made me feel exhausted after it's over because it dragged on way too long. Towards the end, while the action scenes were still freaking good, it got to a point where they wore me out after a while.

            If you want to see dinosaurs kick butt, you absolutely can't go wrong with this one. I'm very happy that this turned out as well as it did after seeing the crappy 'Jurassic Park III". It's not a great movie, but it sure is a pretty fun one.

            I give "Jurassic World" (2015) directed by Colin Trevorrow a 7 out of 10.