If you didn’t like those, well, it’s doubtful you’ll like this.īut if you, like me, like to see dinosaurs eat people - and boy, do I! - then there are many dinosaurs and several people, and a bunch of those people get eaten.

(This idea also came up in Jurassic World, but if you’re going to tease me with dinosaur commandos then give me dinosaur commandos.) Fallen Kingdom is better than Jurassic World, but mostly in the sense that it’s on the level of the first two sequels. There are even hints of weaponized dinosaurs being sold to the military. There are dinosaurs in places dinosaurs should not be. There’s an abandoned island with dinosaurs on it. That leaves Fallen Kingdom paying homage to almost all of these ideas. rex in San Diego” sequence in The Lost World exhausted much of the possibility there) and dinosaur commandos - seriously, this is a thing that almost existed - but “people go to an island and get eaten by dinosaurs” is a time-honored formula, and Universal is loath to mess with it. There have been proposed sequels over the years involving the dinosaurs escaping to the mainland (though the “T. The first Jurassic World movie, released in 2015, started from the premise that the park was finally operational and entertaining tourists, but sooner or later, the dinosaurs gotta start eating people, so it just became an even nastier and more brutish spin on the first film. The most natural plot for a Jurassic Park sequel - somebody goes to an island now overrun with dinosaurs after the theme park in the first movie failed - was the subject of both movie two ( The Lost World) and movie three (the underrated Jurassic Park III).

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom tries mightily, but it can’t escape the gravitational pull of the flaw that defines every Jurassic Park sequel: There’s no real reason for further movies in this particular universe.

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