It's been a while now since this movie came out, and the sequel is now coming, so I guess it's as good a time as any to take a look back at it. And, now that I do... I find myself wondering why it got all that attention and success.
Yeah, I know, Jurassic Park was a classic, and is still hailed by some people as the greatest movie of all time. But this is the fourth movie, and the previous two were infamous as a case of Sequelitis; and yet, when this one comes out, many applaud it as a return to the roots and the first actually good sequel. In my opinion, however, this movie is just as bad as the other sequels, only in a different way. Lost World and III were bad in a typical nineties sequel style, as in they basically just repeat the formula of the original with little to no effort to bring something new to the table. Jurassic World, meanwhile, is bad more in the style of, say, Anaconda 3 and 4: it does bring something new... namely, Shark-Jumping B-movie material that completely derails the original concept.
I mean, seriously; putting aside the rather poor special effects, this movie features both Too Dumb to Live characters whose stupidity causes the accident in the first place and a genetically engineered dinosaur; both things that wouldn't be out of place in one of those Scifi movies like Sharktopus or Mega-Shark vs Giant Octopus.
Not to mention that while the humans are unrealistically dumb, the dinosaur is unrealistically smart. I mean, seriously, I know It Can Think applies here, but that thing figured out it was under surveillance by thermal camera and that it had a tracking device?! Despite being only a few years old at best? Screw being smarter than the average animal, a human being wouldn't be able to figure that out in the same situation!
The only redeeming factor I can think of is the final showdown between I-Rex, T-Rex and Raptor, which I still think was awesome. But aside from that specific part, that movie was forgettable at best and stupid at worse. Why it gets so much praise elludes me.
Looking back... a rather mediocre, overhyped movie
It's been a while now since this movie came out, and the sequel is now coming, so I guess it's as good a time as any to take a look back at it. And, now that I do... I find myself wondering why it got all that attention and success.
Yeah, I know, Jurassic Park was a classic, and is still hailed by some people as the greatest movie of all time. But this is the fourth movie, and the previous two were infamous as a case of Sequelitis; and yet, when this one comes out, many applaud it as a return to the roots and the first actually good sequel. In my opinion, however, this movie is just as bad as the other sequels, only in a different way. Lost World and III were bad in a typical nineties sequel style, as in they basically just repeat the formula of the original with little to no effort to bring something new to the table. Jurassic World, meanwhile, is bad more in the style of, say, Anaconda 3 and 4: it does bring something new... namely, Shark-Jumping B-movie material that completely derails the original concept.
I mean, seriously; putting aside the rather poor special effects, this movie features both Too Dumb to Live characters whose stupidity causes the accident in the first place and a genetically engineered dinosaur; both things that wouldn't be out of place in one of those Scifi movies like Sharktopus or Mega-Shark vs Giant Octopus.
Not to mention that while the humans are unrealistically dumb, the dinosaur is unrealistically smart. I mean, seriously, I know It Can Think applies here, but that thing figured out it was under surveillance by thermal camera and that it had a tracking device?! Despite being only a few years old at best? Screw being smarter than the average animal, a human being wouldn't be able to figure that out in the same situation!
The only redeeming factor I can think of is the final showdown between I-Rex, T-Rex and Raptor, which I still think was awesome. But aside from that specific part, that movie was forgettable at best and stupid at worse. Why it gets so much praise elludes me.