Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is an American science fiction action-adventure film that grossed $1.309 billion over a budget of between $170 and $187 million, becoming the 3rd-highest-grossing film of 2018 and the 15th-highest-grossing film of all time.  It’s a sequel to Jurassic World (2015), and is the second film in the Jurassic World trilogy, and the 5th film in the Jurassic Park franchise.  It’s rated M for action violence (in Australia).  The following are the 10 most recent Rotten Tomatoes audience reviews for the film.

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0.5/5

Jul 10, 2020

Awful truly awful I can’t believe this got made

Jul 07, 2020

The DTS:X audio was off the chain

Jul 06, 2020

Didn’t seem like they had a single expert on any part of what they tried to show. It was a joke.

Jul 05, 2020

I loved the movie, it was an interesting take on a classic. Plus Chris Prat= an entire reason to watch the movie by itself. Seriously… Pratt is my favorite of the Chris’s, I mean have you seen the guy?!?

2.5/5

Jul 02, 2020

Pros: – Great action – Indoraptor is super cool – Suspenseful and Thrilling Cons: – Ending was disappointing – Two different movies in one – Too much like “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” – Acting was ok – Too crazy of a movie for me – Cloned gi- WAIT, WHAT!

3/5

Jun 30, 2020

Stop creating made-up dinosaurs. Stop repeating the message of humankind’s greed and scientific hubris. The part I liked most of this movie was the interesting question of whether the dinosaurs should be saved or not. I wish future movies would base dinosaurs on the fossil record and focus on the biological/scientific debates of today: how to conserve species, co-exist with them, and how the planet is changing. Jurassic movies should always have the same structure, that is what makes them Jurassic Park movies, but that doesn’t mean we need made-up dinos or outdated messaging.

3.5/5

Jun 25, 2020

Great watch, will watch again, and can recommend. Look its not “Jurassic Park”, its not even “Jurassic World”. Its hard to have a dinosaur park movie without a park. Yet they still managed to make this pretty exciting, allow corporate greed to again be the catalyst, and allowed a question that is FAR too deep for this movie, which I can’t reveal without a spoiler. Even the real action of the movie is behind the spoiler curtain, and yes that concept is ridiculous, but it was equally ridiculous to “train” raptors for combat or create the I-Rex in the first place. I’m just happy they’re continuing the trilogy at least as well as they are, and like Jurassic Park 2, this will be setting up a 3rd movie that franchise fans will love.

1.5/5

Jun 21, 2020

The fact that the word “dinosaur” means “terrible lizard” doesn’t mean that movies about dinosaurs should be terrible, too.

4/5

Jun 21, 2020

This was actually a pretty good sequel. I enjoyed this film a little more than “Jurassic World”, but the original “Jurassic Park” will always be the best one in the franchise.

3/5

Jun 20, 2020

I love monster movies. Tell me there are going to be a bunch of dinosaurs running amok in a film, and you have just sold me a ticket. So it was a given that I would be sitting through the fifth film in the series so masterfully started by Spielberg in 1993. And while J.A. Bayona is a terrific director (all his previous features deserves to be seen, from the creepy THE ORPHANAGE, the thrilling THE IMPOSSIBLE to the touching A MONSTER CALLS), he has to serve a criminally weak script by Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow (Who had directed the previous installment). Most scenes and plot points are variations on highlights from the previous four films, and the last act, while showing a bit of originality by having the dinosaurs roaming around inside a vast gothic mansion, still lacks the sense of terror and awe that the original film did so well. And one of the element that helped the audience feel this mixture of wonder and terror was to cast actors that were in many ways normal folks. Sam Neil and Laura Dern’s commonality reflected the viewers’ own, making their reaction to the extraordinary all the more poignant. The last two films opted instead to cast a superhero in the main role. No matter what happens, the moviegoers just know that no ill can befall Chris Pratt. As a matter of fact, while the early films in the series didn’t shy away from killing off sympathetic characters in shocking scenes that helped to set in this sense of terror, the only ones this time around to end up into the jaws of the monstrous clones are the ‘’bad guys”, thus lessening the suspense. In fact, inexplicably, Bryce Dallas Howard’s character is now a dinosaur right activist, adding unnecessary pathos to the plight of the anachronistic creatures, and turning them into ”victims”, again sopping up most of the horror from the situation. It is somewhat sad to realize that by this point, the T-Rex is just not striking terror in our hearts. One would think that with the proper script and direction, there would still be a way to properly instill a sense of dread around the awesome presence of what once was the World’s largest carnivore. But instead, in the last two movies, we are presented with genetic manipulations that attempts to be bigger and better than the original, but somehow falls flat, ironically a bit like the films themselves.

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