Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (3D Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Digital Download) [2018] [Region Free]
K**N
I hope they didn't really hurt any dinosaurs when filming this.
I liked all the people getting eaten by the dinosaurs in the movie. Dinosaurs should eat more people.If a dinosaur eats a person wearing a diamond ring and a Rolex watch, does that mean dinosaur poop is worth a lot of money?
J**Y
Dino Crisis
0: The fifth in a series of Jurassic Park movies and the second of the soft reboot trilogy, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom borrows from both the second Jurassic Park film The Lost World: Jurassic Park and the Resident Evil series of video games. Owen and Claire (Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard) are back as the bickering love interests set to rescue the dinosaurs from Jurassic World as a volcano threatens to destroy the island and make the dinosaurs extinct again.Although very well directed (by J.A. Bayona) and with good special effects, the story simply fails this sequel as the premise of the film it doesn't make any logical sense and the characters (particularly Pratt and Howard) do little to engage the audience throughout the silliness.In all fairness, the first Jurassic World had a pretty flimsy premise as well. The idea that people are tired of looking at dinosaurs is laughable. I mean look at all the cruises to the Galapagos to see turtles, Antarctica to see penguins, whale watching tours to see well whales, or even bloody dog shows. A Saturday afternoon at an Everglades alligator farm will quickly put a lie to the idea that people don't like seeing dinosaurs eat chickens.Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's premise is that we need to save the dinosaurs from extinction because the island they all live on is blowing up. The first flaw in this masterpiece is that there is another island far away from this one also filled with dinosaurs.Jurassic Park Site B island is not some piece of trivia. It was the location for both The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.Okay so maybe the current characters didn’t know about this secret island on might say? Jeff Goldblum (who is wasted in this film by the way) was the star of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. I certainly would expect that during his congressional testimony he might bring it up. Plus it was the T-rex from that island that ate San Diego. I don’t think it is a secret.There really is a bigger problem with the plot than just the what about that giant other dinosaur island the film series is conveniently forgetting. The dinosaurs are man-made creatures (notice the lack of feathers and the fact the velociraptors are not eighteen inches in height and 33 pounds like the real ones were.) Which means we can just make more dinosaurs. We can make them any size and color and disposition we want. That is kinda the theme that has run throughout the entire series after all. These dinosaurs are simply not extinct if we can make more.I like both Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard as actors but their characters have no chemistry in this. Pratt leaves most of his charisma in his trailer when he tries to go full action star and Bryce Dallas Howard acts like she should be running a PTA bake sale. The two millennials they bring along on this trip grew on me but a wiser script would have had them eaten.The relationship between Pratt and the velociraptor Blue in this film also has some issues. They took away the Blue may turn on Pratt angle from the first Jurassic World and retconned her as an adorable pet. Pratt calls Blue the second most intelligent creature on the planet and she is the focus of the rescue. I am not buying it. Blue can open doors, is an intelligent and ruthless hunter, and responds to treats and laser lights. If the velociraptor slept eighteen hours a day it would be my cat.I credit the film for trying something new in its second half. Cribbing heavily from Resident Evil, Carnosaur, and the movie Taken of all things the adventure in the mansion certainly wasn’t what I was expecting when I saw the ads. (what I was expecting was giant aquatic dinosaurs eating surfers and yes I waited for the whole movie for that and yes I am still upset.)The second half of the movie really is straight from the Resident Evil videogame right down to the little girl who (I am calling it here) probably has velociraptor DNA. Honesty it sticks a lot closer to the plot of Resident Evil than any of the Paul W.S. Anderson movies managed to. I love the twist I just wished I liked the characters and the movie more. The opening bit with the guys trying to get the bone underwater in the dark rain is excellent as is the final montage (Where my surfer eating dinosaur finally makes a too-brief appearance.) The rest of the film is fun but somewhat disposable.
B**.
Yay!
Needed this to finish our collection and let me tell you the price was right!
R**R
Decent flick
Had to catch up from the second Jurassic park, it was worth the watch
H**R
Good ending to the series
We enjoyed it a lot. I think the best will still always be the first, but this was a good ending and worth the watch and buy to keep in our collection.
C**9
what i order
good movie
C**E
I need the Jurassic Trilogy
I love all the movies but this one needs to show me that it will be another because of Blue 💙.
C**H
Good movie
Some of the CGI was bad but overall good story and family movie.
P**R
Return to Isla Nublar
A new movie in the Jurassic Park franchise. Sequel to 'Jurassic World' and you do really need to have seen that in order to get into this.It's three years since the events of that film. Owen and Claire haven't exactly lived happily ever after. But are reunited when the volcano on the island where the park was becomes active. And it's a race to save the dinosaurs.But then they find there's more to the expedition than meets the eye...Like the previous film, this does exactly what you would expect, with lots of dinosaur set pieces and humans in peril as a result. But it also does, to it's credit, try to do things a little differently. Which is why the plot does take the story to places the franchise has never been before. It is written as the middle of a trilogy, and like many of those that I've read in book form, it does move things along and set things up for a third and final one.It is a thoroughly watchable and likeable blockbuster bit of escapism. Like the first film, it doesn't ever try or promise to be anything more than that. But whilst it is as watchable a bit of escapism as that was, it just doesn't quite have the freshness that that did. Thus it's a four rather than five star release.Jeff Goldblum does reprise his role from the original Jurassic Park. For only a couple of minutes of screentime.Do be aware that although the film does contain dinosaurs, some bits might be too scary for the very young, and they might be a bit too young to follow the plot as well. In which case, there's no point In letting them watch it, is there? Yes, lady who was behind me in the cinema, I am talking about you...The disc has the following language and subtitle options:Languages: English,. English audio description.Subtitles: English. Arabic.The disc begins with several trailers, which can be skipped via the next button on the dvd remote.It contains the usual flyer with code for downloading a copy of the film from a website onto a digital device.And dvd owners actually do quite well with this for once when it comes to extras:There are ten different featurettes. None run more than five mins, and you can't select play all for them so have to watch them one at a time. They all look at different aspects of the production, and despite being short are all pretty good. It helps to have Chris Pratt at the front of most as he is an affable presenter.Same goes for the other extra section, Chris Pratt's Jurassic Journals. These are twelve short films, all no longer than a minute, in which he interviews various production staff and in two of them, actors. All are short and fun watches, and you will learn a lot about various roles on a movie set from this. These can be watched individually, or via a play all option.
B**X
Time to let the Jurassic Franchise go extinct
I should have known better and not waste my money on this hopefully final Jurassic movie. The film makers are clearly running out of ideas. This one is mostly all about the usual predictable greedy, ruthless people, the types you know get eaten at some point, and the dippy equally predictable 'I want to safe the world' kind of types. All characters have one thing in common, they're one-dimensional cliches. You never really get to know them or care about them. The few dinosaurs in this movie were kind of humanised in their facial expression and they even have human emotions it seems. But as I say, there are very few dinosaurs in this movie. It's mostly about a monster and the 'human' raptors. Bizarre! Apart from that the film is totally gliding into the monster movie genre. Oh and there are plenty of moments that are recycled from previous Jurassic movies. I even spotted a scene that leans on a scene from Lord of the Rings! And for some reason, Owen, the male lead character, is occasionally trying in vain to be funny. All in all, come on guys, it really is time to let the Jurassic Franchise go extinct. R.I.P.
W**.
Tedious, patronising and tired rubbish.
We turned this tedious and tired sequel off after about thirty minutes. The franchise is worn out and even in 3D this film doesn’t sustain one’s interest. The ludicrously irritating plot and cynical attempts to get an emotional response from the audience are classic examples of filmmaking by “committee”! The badly developed plot is just plain daft, repetitive and patronising to all concerned particularly those of us daft enough to have paid for the 3D blu ray! And the 3D isn’t very good either! Definitely NOT recommended!
D**.
Park guests get eaten for breakfast
I could see 25 years ago that regenerating dinosaurs was a terribly bad idea. So why have they continued? And why did they even take it a few steps further by meddling with their gene pool!?!It’s all the fault of these greedy billionaire owners. But there is military involvement as well as the armed forces thought it a great idea to turn velociraptors into combat machines... yes this is beyond my comprehension. But then you wonder why those small velociraptors and not the T-rexes? On top of all this, clearly none of these people have taken notice of Murphy’s law because it’s begging for disaster. I could see from the first few minutes that dino excrement would hit the fan big time.But it gets even more disturbing: two children are sent to this park to get some distraction while their parents are handling a divorce ... who would do that?!I think I’m not spoiling too much by disclosing that there is some fiction in this movie. However there are much deeper and more subtle themes in here as well: it is about how mankind’s greed and ambition turns into disaster, as it always does. And it mocks society’s tendency to always demand more for mere entertainment: “people want bigger jaws and bigger teeth”. And its about how authority ignoring the opinions of experts accelerates disaster. These things happen every day! I wish people would wake up. It also cunningly exposes the arrogance of science; not everything that can be achieved should be done!. There are many lessons here.So this movie, albeit gruesome stayed with me for days. It's a classic and a real eye-opener that surpasses the original on many counts.
M**N
rubbish movie, worst jurassic park film ever made and very poor despatch time from amazon
I love all these Jurassic park movies, except this crappy movie called fallen kingdom to many animals are killed in this one, it is the worst in the series and should be scrapped. I won't watch again and will be selling this one on. it does play fine but EU S.a.r.l. are the ones I pre ordered this movie from, it was despatched a week after it's official release, I used to get them on the day of release.... EU S.a.r.l. is not as good a service as it used to be and should really do better if they wanna keep customers. Such a terrible film. save your money and Don't bother, my advice is to avoid this waste of time movie or you'll be disappointed.
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