Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Film Review

Finished watching Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, directed by J. A. Bayona and starring Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rafe Spall, Chris Pratt and Isabella Sermon. The film opens with a group of mercenaries on a mission to retrieve a sample of the Indominus Rex before leaving in a hurry when the T-Rex begins to chase down the land crew as they leave on a helicopter after the crew lose communication with a submerged vehicle that was eaten by the Mosasaurus. Back in America the former manager of Jurassic World, Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is now the founder of the Dinosaur Protection Group with the hope to help the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar who are currently under threat by an active volcano on the island. Claire soon gets a call from by Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) to his home as Lockwood and his assistant Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) who hope to rescue as many dinosaurs of the island as they can with the help of Claire and Raptor trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) as Blue is one of the dinosaurs that Eli has a particular interest in. Once one the island Claire and Owen are joined by a mercenary group that has been hired by Eli as the two soon discovered that they have been trick as Eli has ulterior motives. Overall this was a good film as it continues with the storyline that began with the previous film with the antagonist putting multiple dinosaurs up for auction including those that are hybrid which is a nice through line between the film's. There's a nice amount of character interactions and develop within the film, with the way that the relationship between Claire and Owen has developed since the previous film helps to bring a nice amount of insight to the characters as the film catches up with what the state of their relationship is and how it grows within the film thanks to some great interactions between the characters. While the addition of Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) actually leads to some great interactions and puts Claire and Owen into an interesting place at the end of the film. The film does a great job in balancing the action with the dinosaurs and the horror elements that comes with use of the Indoraptor with the character moments with the human cast from there interactions with one another and the dinosaurs which brings a nice amount of levity to the film in places while also making characters, human and dinosaurs more relatable. 7.5/10.