‘Glassy eyed’ … Bryce Dallas Howard is back The old boy is played by James Cromwell, much as he played Prince Philip in The Queen and his gigantic mansion looks like a scary-movie Balmoral. Specifically, the ageing Sir Benjamin Lockwood, former business partner of the park’s founder Hammond (once played of course by Richard Attenborough) is now planning to exfiltrate the dinosaurs and keep them in a new Shangri-La island where the tourists won’t bother them. Now it’s the other way round.Īfter running wild on their island, the dinosaurs have been left alone, but now an erupting volcano threatens to wipe them out altogether and soft-hearted pro-dinosaur ecologists campaign for these animals to be saved. Previously the humans were in danger from the dinosaurs.

Now the situation depends on uncomfortably reversing the question of jeopardy. Yet this is left undeveloped – or maybe its creepy implications will emerge in the next movie.īasically this new film has to sidestep the eternal question of dinosaurs being penned up in an amusement park and then things going horribly wrong – over and over, film after film. But weirdly, director JA Bayona, with his track record in the supernatural, only seems to make the material his own with a potentially interesting and disturbing genetic plot twist concerning not dinosaurs but homo sapiens. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom hedges its bets a bit by giving us a good dinosaur and a bad dinosaur amidst the panoply of prehistoric beasts.

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