Serving as a standalone sequel to Dominion (or arguably another reboot), the fourth in franchise is written by David Koepp and directed by Gareth Edwards.
Scarlett Johannson - Zora Bennett
Mahershala Ali - Duncan Kincaid
Jonathan Bailey - Dr. Henry Loomis
Rupert Friend - Martin Krebs
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo - Reuben Delgado
Luna Blaise - Teresa Delgado
David Iacono - Xavier Dobbs
Summary
On Ile Saint-Hubert in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists at an InGen laboratory are cross-breeding dinosaurs to create mutant hybrids. A containment breach allows genetically altered freak the Distortus rex to escape, forcing everybody to abandon the original research facility for Jurassic Park.
Seventeen years later, mercenaries Zora Bennett and Duncan Kincaid are hired by Martin Krebs of pharmaceutical giant ParkerGenix to work with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis on a top-secret mission to retrieve blood samples from the three largest remaining dinosaurs of sea (Mosasaurus), land (Titanosaurus) and air (Quetzalcoatlus), so a revolutionary drug to prevent coronary heart disease can be developed.
Before obtaining the first sample, Zora's team rescue the Delgado family, but both parties are separated after a Spinosaurus attack.
If forbidden island doesn't kill them, something else won't.
Survival is a long shot
Expensive and dumb, but is shit fun?
Not really.
Aside from rubbish characters, poor script and nonsensical plot, the main problem is that action is predictable, derivative and tension free.
Nods to and recreations of Spielberg's Jurassic Park are borderline obsessive and Mosasaurus pursuit is blatantly Jaws, with Black Widow doing an awful impression of Quint.
Back in 1993, seeing the Brachiosaur for the first time was jaw-dropping. Here, a pair of loved up Titanosaurus fails to have the same effect.
Once all samples are collected, teams converge at the wrecked facility to rendezvous with a rescue helicopter.
Are we playing a fucking video game?
Humans are attacked by Mutadons (real name Velociranodons), before multi-limbed end boss D-rex causes mischief.
Big bad attacks and destroys the chopper. Principle is identical to a cut scene involving the T-rex in Capcom's Dino Crisis.
(Shakes head).
It also eats Krebs, echoing the Rancor in Return of the Jedi enjoying a Gamorrean guard.
As a reminder, the creatures in the much maligned Dino Crisis 3 are mutations.
Sure film isn't set aboard a spaceship hundreds of years in the future, but even so.
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