Bayona is just an all-around better, and more capable, director, and his staging and execution of the film’s massive action set pieces are handled brilliantly. Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls), taking over director duties from Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow.

About a dozen new characters are quickly introduced to us, with one or two, like Daniella Pineda’s Zia Rodriguez, managing to stand out, while most simply play 2-D caricatures.Īnd yet, despite all of this, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom still brings us the most engaging and thrilling scenes of the Jurassic Park franchise since Steven Spielberg himself was at the helm. Besides a forced kiss between the two, neither of these lead characters go through any sort of arc or change by the end of the film. Both clearly still have feelings for each other though, putting them in the exact same dynamic they were in the first film instead of trying something new. Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Owen (a sleepwalking Chris Pratt) both return, however they’re no longer together. The film is overly eager to get from one action set piece to the next, awkwardly filling the time in between with rapid fire exposition and humor that never quite lands. But Fallen Kingdom doesn’t actually seem to be about much of anything in the end.

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