The previous Jurassic World Trilogy petered out with a whimper (albeit a multi-billion-dollar whimper). The first movie was a bit silly, but also a great deal of fun. The second one was very stupid and the third was slightly less stupid.
This reboot feels very much like The Lost World. This makes sense, since I heard that some of the people who made The Lost World are helping make this one. Like that original sequel, this looks like to be, at heart, a heist movie set on an island of monsters.
Some of the visuals look nice and scary. The shot of the man in the hazmat suit trapped in the room with the dinosaur was the stuff of nightmares.
Normally I would be a little weary of the trope of the no-nonsense girl-boss. But Scarlett Johansson is one of the few actresses that I think can pull it off well. Not only does she has she built up a pop culture cache as Black Widow, but as she demonstrated in Fly Me To The Moon, she has enough charisma and star power to carry a movie. The rest of the cast seems fine, though I would like to see more.
Overall, I'm hoping that this is going to be a return to form for the franchise.
Thoughts?
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