Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Name: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: June 22, 2018
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 51
Cast: BD Wong, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Daniel Stisen, Daniella Pineda

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 22, 2018 | PG-13

Starring: BD Wong, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Daniel Stisen, Daniella Pineda, Geraldine Chaplin, James Cromwell, Jeff Goldblum, Justice Smith, Kamil Lemieszewski, Rafe Spall, Ted Levine, Toby Jones

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The original Jurassic World made over $652 million in domestic box office in 2015 and has a Metascore of 59.

Summary: It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles. When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mountIt’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles. When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.… Expand

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 128 min

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Calvin Wilson

Jun 21, 2018

Another “Jurassic” flick wasn’t necessary, but it’s a fantastic ride all the same. Read full review

Johnny Oleksinski

Jun 5, 2018

“Fallen Kingdom” is a more interesting, and less obvious, story than the usual Tyrannosaurus romps, which tend to be death-defying games of hide-and-seek. Read full review

Gary Thompson

Jun 21, 2018

The opening sections has a feel of a competent if familiar effects movie, but the film changes mood and tone when story movies the foreboding castle — perhaps a nod to Mary Shelley, among the first to warn us of the hazards of scientists who interfere with the natural order. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Jun 5, 2018

It looks and feels familiar, and in an era where studio filmmaking has increasingly become an extension of brand management, that should make a lot of people happy. But I can’t say it made me particularly happy. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Jun 21, 2018

Fallen Kingdom is so committed to thunderous spectacle that it fails to capture the poetry of these beasts in all their spiky, scaly, long-necked wonder. They deserve better. Read full review

Peter Travers

Jun 19, 2018

This sequel has the perfunctory vibe that comes from filmmakers who cynically believe the public will buy anything T. Rex-related, no matter how shoddy the goods or warmed-over the plot. Read full review

Dave White

Jun 5, 2018

The major problem with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — the fifth installment in this dinosaur series, and the second of a prospective trilogy — is that the makers treat the action and suspense sequences in the way most of us go to the dentist. Read full review

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exorcisam

Jun 22, 2018

Awesome movie with full action suspense and thrills not as good as the first jurassic movie and the animatronics and CGI was top notch!!!

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meydianarizki21

Nov 20, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you asked me to describe any of the characters in the original Jurassic World beyond their one-note personality quirks, I'd come up completely blank. If you were to ask me to describe the characters in Fallen Kingdom, however, I could go on forever. Claire Dearing is the Dr. Frankenstein of the film; passionate, proactive and blinded by her own ambitions, hubris and sense of righteousness. Her entire reputation, everything she's grown into since the events of Jurassic World, any chance she has at personal redemption for the lives lost on Isla Nublar 3 years ago, hinges on her saving the animals she once viewed as nothing more than corporate assets. She is driven by her emotions (Particularly her deep seated personal guilty), passions and code of ethics rather than merely plot convenience or cold, unconditional logic as was the case in the original Jurassic World. This makes her character far more relatable and human and her errors in decision making a lot more forgivable and understandable. Her arc from self-tortured and arrogant martyr to willing and humble hero is handled with a surprising degree of subtlety that not many critics have given her credit for. Owen Grady also benefits from a stronger characterization in Fallen Kingdom, we get to see more of his relationship with Blue and understand why and how he formed such a strong relationship with her. Fallen Kingdom does an excellent job establishing Owen as a man outside of and uncomfortable with the civilized world, exhausted with the pretensions and self righteousness of his fellow human beings. The honesty, trust and unconditional love he's shared with Blue since birth means the world to him and his love for her is the one thing he has left that's truly worth fighting for. Because the cast is playing actual characters this time around rather than merely hollow archetypes, the performances improve tenfold. Bryce Dallas Howard is allowed to be confident, fervent and passionate in her vocal delivery. Chris Pratt is allowed to be emotionally vulnerable and nuanced in his facial acting.

Even the dinosaurs have more character here than they had in Jurassic World; Blue's mini-arc of feeling distrust and abandonment from Owen to repairing their broken relationship is certainly more character development than any terrible lizard of Jurassic Park movies prior and the Indoraptor has both an odd sense of tragedy and unique, slasher villain-esque aesthetic that give her a real sense of identity that the Indominus Rex lacked.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom possesses possibly the most striking and memorable aesthetic of any Jurassic Park film to date. The tone feels deliciously Gothic horror inspired with some beautifully chilling and dark imagery that really captures the feeling of terror and majesty held in the Crichton books. In an age where so many Hollywood blockbusters are so unbearably dull in their visuals, Fallen Kingdom retaining the style of a Gothic monster movie is as refreshing as it is gorgeous to take in. Also, it's definitely worth mentioning than the effects have improved significantly from Jurassic World, in large part due to the combination of CGI and animatronics and the darker pallete.

Finally, I wish to discuss the film's ending and the character of Maisie, both of which have been under heavy scrutiny and both of which I loved. Isabella Sermon is one of the most endearing, ranged and talented child actresses I've seen since Danielle Harris and she does a phenomenal job handling her character's slow and methodical unraveling or her traumatizing origins. Maisie also brings real weight to the film's ethical question and a legitimate argument for why humanity shouldn't let the dinosaurs die. Maisie's creation as a clone was by all means unethical. However, this does not mean that killing or abandoning her would be the responsible decision to such an ethical mistake. This is why Maisie has to be the one to set them free into the world; she understands the ethical mistake behind their creation, but also that the murky ethical circumstances behind them is not necessarily their fault. She has an empathy for these creatures that none of the other humans do. The dinosaurs in Fallen Kingdom having much more in the way of characterization and personality already established the foundation for this argument and Maisie makes that argument all the more difficult to answer.

If you had told me a year ago that I would be praising a Jurassic World sequel as the 2nd best in the entire franchise, I would have called you crazy. But, lo and behold...Here we are. I love this film to the point where I could defend it for hours. I love the themes, I love the performances, I love the characters, I love the effects. I loved it. I loved it. I'll keep saying it if you want me too.… Expand

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BrunoFS24

Jan 19, 2020

Even if doesn't reach the heights of his predecessor, this is another welcome addition tô The franchise, with great action sequences, a little bit of humor, drama, and dino thrills!

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drlowdon

Dec 16, 2018

Four years after the Jurassic World resort was destroyed by escaping dinosaurs Owen (Chris Pratt) and Clair (Bryce Dallas-Howard) have to return to the island and mount a rescue operation as the, once dormant, volcano at the islands centre threatens to make the dinosaurs extinct once again.Four years after the Jurassic World resort was destroyed by escaping dinosaurs Owen (Chris Pratt) and Clair (Bryce Dallas-Howard) have to return to the island and mount a rescue operation as the, once dormant, volcano at the islands centre threatens to make the dinosaurs extinct once again.

Each instalment in this long running franchise has become more unrealistic than the last at that is taken to the extreme here. The behaviour of both the humans and the dinosaurs is quite frankly ludicrous and wildly inconsistent from scene to scene and the plot, involving attempts to weaponise dinosaurs, makes no sense at all. Having said all that Fallen Kingdom is still an entertaining movie with two likeable leads and so despite everything I certainly wasn’t ever bored.… Expand

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F3RYX

Jul 28, 2018

this movie looks good but that's where every good thing about it ends ! the story the plot and the characters are so stupid! and the dinosaurs act so out of ordinary in the situations! and when will they just stop with the hero dinosaurs?! make em the killing machines they were in thethis movie looks good but that's where every good thing about it ends ! the story the plot and the characters are so stupid! and the dinosaurs act so out of ordinary in the situations! and when will they just stop with the hero dinosaurs?! make em the killing machines they were in the original movies and not the stupid way they were in this movie, i mean they are about to die and they always stop to kill? no animal acts like that!… Expand

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RyanVanG

Jun 22, 2018

Fallen Kingdom was TERRIBLE. One major character has 3 life-changing experiences in the spanse of about a couple of minutes. It takes no time to let the audience process anything that happens. It’s just immediately on to the next scene.

OH YEAH! Did you see the trailer and get excited aboutFallen Kingdom was TERRIBLE. One major character has 3 life-changing experiences in the spanse of about a couple of minutes. It takes no time to let the audience process anything that happens. It’s just immediately on to the next scene.

OH YEAH! Did you see the trailer and get excited about the T-Rex vs Lion or the Megalodon eating the surfers? Those shots were in an OUTRO MONTAGE. What you saw in the trailer is what you get! There’s nothing more to those scenes. This was one long 2 hour advertisement for JW3, and it SUCKED.… Expand

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pranavjohn

Apr 19, 2019

How do they manage to drive a whole franchise to the ground. The reason why Jurassic Park was good was because of it's script. This movie is just a bunch of CGI with tiny strings barely connecting them.

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