Image used with permission by copyright holderįallen Kingdom feels like a smaller movie than Jurassic World (or Jurassic Park, for that matter), as it doesn’t seem interested in evoking that sense of wide-eyed astonishment at dinosaurs walking among us. Of all the films so far, it was the closest in spirit to Steven Spielberg’s franchise-spawning Jurassic Park, and like that 1993 film, Jurassic World kindled that sense of amazement with breathtaking visual effects and cinematography. After four films that exhaustively explored just about every corner of the dinosaurs-as-attractions premise, the shift in theme gives Fallen Kingdom a unique feel in the franchise, but it’s likely to polarize fans with its willingness to abandon some of the series’ more traditional emotional cues.Īlthough 2015’s Jurassic World was essentially a reboot of the franchise, its success in capturing the sense of wonder and beauty in the notion of bringing dinosaurs back from extinction - before all of the running and screaming, that is - was a big part of what worked about the movie. Where many of the earlier films were satisfied to leave the scares to the dinosaurs, Fallen Kingdom features some of the franchise’s most overtly villainous human characters so far, with motivations far more sinister than the usual, theme-park-related aspirations. There’s a lot to like about the latest installment of the franchise.
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