Variety
“Fallen Kingdom” is an improvement, but it’s the first “Jurassic” film to come close to pretending it isn’t a ride at all, and as a result it ends up being just a passable ride.
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Jurassic World 3D: Fallen Kingdom
Jeff Goldblum is back, along with Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and A Monster Calls director J.A. Bayona for the sequel to 2015's Jurassic World.
Three years after the destruction of the Jurassic World theme park, Owen Grady (Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Howard) return to the island of Isla Nublar to save the remaining dinosaurs from a volcano that's about to erupt. They soon encounter terrifying new breeds of gigantic dinosaurs, while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens the entire planet.
2018Rating: M, Violence128 minsUSA, Spain
ActionAdventureScience Fiction3DBlockbuster
- Director:
- J.A. Bayona ('A Monster Calls', 'The Impossible', 'The Orphanage')
- Writer:
- Colin TrevorrowDerek Connolly
- Cast:
- Chris PrattBryce Dallas HowardRafe SpallToby JonesJustice SmithDaniella PinedaTed LevineJeff Goldblum
Jurassic World 3D: Fallen Kingdom / Reviews
Total Film
After a first half that suggests franchise fatigue is setting in, Fallen Kingdom zooms in for some scarily good set-pieces.
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This fun, pacy addition to the dino disaster franchise doesn’t do much that’s particularly new – though what it does, it does with a fair whack of panache.
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The Telegraph
The film staples together two snazzy-sounding ideas... without considering whether the end product’s sheer snarling hideousness might just prove an intelligence-insulting turn-off.
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The Guardian
There are some reasonably entertaining scenes and set pieces, but the whole concept feels tired and contrived...
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Stuff
The script is too silly, too obviously ticking the boxes to ever give Bayona the opportunity to really turn the screws and take our breath away.
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Hollywood Reporter
Bayona not only nods to the histories of classic monster movies and the legacy of original Jurassic helmer Steven Spielberg; he brings his own experience to bear...
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Empire Magazine
This is a Jurassic sequel that plays it both adrenaline-pumpingly huge and thrillingly small.
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BBC
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is good old-fashioned summer entertainment, and it does a cunning job of setting up the next instalment.
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