I thought it was great. I've seen it twice now. Plus, they set it nicely for a sequel. I'm officially a Jurassic Park fan again (after the sequels to the original were so meh).
Though I didn't feel bad for her, I did have a "wtf" random moment when she got gobbled along with the pterodactyl. There were absolutely no character development for her, so ultimately I didn't mind that she died. But really, there wasn't much of a character development for any of the main characters either. Pratt is a badass, Claire is a stubborn beesh, the kids deserve to die, and psycho Italian guy who wants power. That's what I got from the movie's characters.
Do they explain or show how they went from an out of control dinosaur island to now back to a functional theme park? Is it even the same island? The only real scene that I have seen on a talk show is the one where Pratt is directing three raptors with hand signals to hold them off. I thought these raptors were supposed to be really smart? I guess it wouldn't be much of a story if they all just pounced on him and ripped him to shreds right then and there. That is what I was wanting to happen when watching it.
Same island as first Jurassic Park movie. T Rex had scars from the fight with raptors from the climax of the first movie.
Was it really the same one? (I thought those scars were from the fight it had just had with the new rex). I figured they'd have just easily produced a new one... as it seems like they had pretty much quarantined/destroyed the old park, and all of its previous creations, and it had been a good 20 years (not sure what the life-span is for a T-rex anyways). Seems easier to simply grow a new one in captivity vs. deal with a wild/free-range one that now has the taste of human blood.
20 years is awhile to get proper security measures in place... and to be honest, the original park would have been fine had they had backup power generators for the fences and didn't let one fat hacker selfishly bring the whole grid down. Same thing would happen at any zoo if they just purposely left the cages open. My guess is they discovered/investigated that the whole original park was brought down by Nedry's corruption alone... and that was an easily correctable problem to fix (albeit costly due to the lawsuits with all the deaths). Once they fixed that glitch, investors realized the profits (which leads to success... till they made a mutant hybrid that went way past their safeguards).
Saw last night. This movie was NOT a good movie. Entertaining? Sure. CGI worked and everything. Watched it all. But c'mon... I don't understand why they can't do a Jurassic movie, that actually puts effort into the script, acting and storylines. Instead, nothing about this felt logical in any way. It was way too scripted, in a bad way. Everything was 100% predicatable. Beyond that, there's all kinds of things that made absolutely no sense... beyond the whole story. Like why is there a TRex in a pen just chilling right next to basically all the buildings? Why is there a giant water dinosaur that has crazy mad hops, but is cool to just chill in his pen and not hop out and grab some tourists? Why did it go from broad daylight one scene, to complete darkness the next? Why was Chris Pratt's character dressed like he was? How come there's all kinds of kids in some scenes as guests, then none at all in the next scenes? How did the main kids parents show up the next morning? How would the two side-kick workers in the control room ever make it that far up the ladder - they were both morons, and one was insubordinate at every turn? Etc, etc, etc... Bad entertaining movie.
