My Expectations : 5/10
My Rating : 6/10
I went to watch this movie only because my daughter wanted to see dinosaurs. This was a sequel of a reboot, so I had very low expectations going on. Overall, the movie slightly exceeded my expectations.
The movie starts at InGen‘s (Another company trying to play god with dinosaurs) laboratories and the most ridiculous thing happens. Just because 1 door in their lab malfunctions, their entire security system reboots and releases all the mutant dinosaurs everywhere. Which designer can design such software and how can such a design go through the design review & approval chain? In contrast, the drainage system they built at a remote tropical island can put most Indian cities to shame.
Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali were the only cast members I recognised. Other than them, the movie also stars a lower-end Orlando Bloom, a lower-end Justin Bieber and a higher-end Mukul Chadda. Scarlett had only 3 expressions throughout the movie – Grinning stupidly for no reason, applying effort during action scenes and crying.
The movie has typical action movie scenes – A group going to a watering hole in a tropical location to find an indispensable guy & convincing him to join the mission, crew members dying one by one while the others shout their names in vain, a selfless sacrifice by a crew member at the end to give others a chance to escape etc.
There are new dinosaurs, too. The main mutant antagonist looks like a T Rex-Xenomorph hybrid. There’s also a customary cute dinosaur who looks like Stitch and even one that looks like Jar Jar Binks.
There’s also prominent product placement by Altoids. Considering how most of them spent most of their time submerged in water or wet, they could have inserted an anti-fungal cream, too.
Overall, a decent watch if you have nothing better to do.
