Jurassic World movie review

Movie reviewer's note: I've watched this on my own accord. I didn't get invited by the local distributors just to make my reviews blemished with sugar-coated commentaries. I watched this movie because I am a fan and I don't want to disappoint fellow sci-fi fans and my readers.

I first watch the movie Jurassic Park before I read the novels. After Michael Crichton passed away, I still watch Jurassic Park 3 but sadly it disappoint fans like me. After watching it, I decided not to see any more Jurassic Park sequel unless someone continues it in the book where it all began.

Photo courtesy of Legendary Pictures

After a PR material was sent to me by the local distributor, I immediately published it because I am a fan but I am not raising my hopes up since I can never forget Jurassic Park 3 and there are no books published.

In addition that there are no printed publication to follow up the "Jurassic World" Crichton created; surprisingly, the usual characters that succeeded the franchise didn't return like John Hammond(played by the late Richard Attenborough) who appeared in all Jurassic Park movies. I can understand why he didn't return but they could have gotten another actor who look like him. In the first Jurassic Park, Hammond was like a darker version of Walt Disney because of his dangerous theme park he wanted to build. Now, the torch was passed on in two characters: Jurassic World CEO Simon Masrani and Vic Hoskins of InGen(Hammond's former company).

Paleontologist Alan Grant(Sam Neill) and mathematician and Chaos Theorist Ian Malcolm(Jeff Goldblum) were key characters that survived the Park and lived to tell that they are the living proof that the Park should not be opened to the public. But since Jurassic World is now the realization of what the Park might look if it's operational, I wonder what Grant and Malcolm done to prevent this. It is just my wishful thinking.

But in Malcolm and Grant's absence, Jurassic World introduces a new hero: Owen Grady played by Chris Pratt. Grady serves as the raptor trainor and still respects the raptors and treats them as dangerous animals. There had been many hunter characters in the previous Jurassic movies but not as badass as Grady.

The only one who returned from the first Jurassic Park was B.D. Wong. Who played geneticist Dr. Henry Wu. I can understand that it needs a genetic engineer to clone dinosaurs but what I find inconsistent with Wu was that it was not clear that he made it out of Isla Nublar alive since we didn't see him off but according to the book, he was one of the casualties. I just find it hard to believe that he is the only geneticist in spearheading the dinosaur cloning procedure.

It also seems that there will always be children who are going to be in danger each Jurassic movie. In Jurassic Park, it was Hammond's grandchildren. In Jurassic Park: Lost World, it was Malcolm's daughter who stowaway with them. In Jurassic Park 3, it was a boy who got marooned accidentally at Isla Sorna, the abandoned Jurassic Park Site B not far from Isla Nublar where the Jurassic World is located. And now, it is the nephews of Jurassic World manager Claire Dearing(Bryce Dallas Howard).

Jurassic World continues to be an example why is it also dangerous to play god since genetic engineering is a scientific fact.There had been cases of successful cloning procedures in real life. The movie also deals with ethics. I remember Alan Grant's line from the first movie in haunting detail that "man and dinosaurs are separated by 65 million years and suddenly got put in one place" and Hammond's line in the sequel Lost World, "These animals require our absence". 

In conclusion, this is a completely good movie. Probably because the saving grace of the movie was Chris Pratt and Legendary Pictures. I would not decide to watch it if it weren't for a fellow fan. I am not sure if it's good on IMAX since I only saw it on a regular 2D cinema at SM Megamall which is just alright for me since we don't need to spend much just to have it on 3D experience which I am not sure also.

Jurassic World earned much on box office here in the Philippines and it's all because of me and my friends who watched it not just twice but thrice already. For more movie fan reviews, follow this blog and like L.E.N.S. blogs on Facebook.