عالم الديناصورات: إحياء

I would love to watch a version of this just with dinosaurs and that's it, no humans, no actors, just NO acting.

People are being a little harsh about this movie—it’s about dinosaurs, y’all. Personally, I enjoyed it. I went in with no expectations and came out pleasantly surprised. The cast did a solid job, the writing held up, and with a mix of humor and dinos, it made for a fun watch.

Jurassic World: Reheated Nachos. There’s nothing quite as schlocky here as some of the ideas presented in the previous _Jurassic World_ trilogy (no dinosaurs as military weapons, human cloning etc.), but _Rebirth_ is still every bit as dumb and low on risk. The approach this time around is very straightforward and basic, which could potentially work if they cooked up some fresh ideas for new set pieces. Unfortunately, they did not succeed. The first half focuses a lot on the human characters, and as we all know this franchise’s inability to write characters has become a punchline at this point (ignoring _Jurassic Park_, of course). I’ve seen David Koepp write good dialogue earlier this year in _Black Bag_, so it’s not like he isn’t capable when he puts his mind to it. He seems to pull a lot of the character archetypes from _Aliens_, combined with a main theme that zooms in once again on the science vs corporate greed debate; a debate that was solved six movies ago at this point. There are character set-ups in this first half (the grief of Scarlet Johannson, the family bonding) that never turn into engaging, completed arcs, instead they’re often just forgotten about once we get to the island. Now, the stuff on the island is slightly less boring, because it’s more action packed and we have a director that clearly understands scale and visual effects. It’s all very tame and bloodless, but at least it’s consistently nice to look at. On the other hand, I find it less excusable how Edwards rips off entire key scenes from _Jurassic Park_ and other Steven Spielberg movies. He barely makes an effort to find his own spin on the beats that make those scenes memorable, so these sequences mostly play like a bunch of cheap member berries. In short, this is mostly just another branding exercise that exists to keep an IP alive in the public consciousness. For a franchise that continuously presents itself as critical of corporate greed, it does feel increasingly more ironic that the creatives involved are clearly phoning it in and collecting a paycheck. 3.5/10 P.s.: can we please retire this angle that the people in this universe have gotten bored of dinosaurs? We all still visit the zoo in real life without collective boredom, it makes zero sense.

Wow how did Jurassic Park + Scarlett Johansson went this bad? This is just trash… I should’ve watched Sharknado 7 instead…