Jurassic World (2015)
Certified: 12A
Duration: 124 minutes
Directed: by Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Vincent D’Onofrio, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, B. D. Wong, Jake Johnson, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Tee, Katie McGrath, Judy Greer
KRS Releasing Ltd

Two decades have passed since the dinosaur park known as Jurassic Park was closed after a series of accidents. Now, on the island of Isla Nubar, a new park titled Jurassic World has opened to great financial success and more.

Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the operations manager of the park and she is dead bent on making it a success. Among other recent visitors are her nephews Zack (Nick Robinson) and Gray (Ty Simpkins) who are 16 and 11 years old respectively. The boys are accompanied all over the place by her assistant since she is very busy.

Simon Masrani (Irfan Khan), the owner of Jurassic World along with scientist Dr Henry Wu (BD Wong), has concocted a new dinosaur in the lab a bid to retain the park’s competitive edge. The Indominus Rex is a mix of a variety of dinosaurs and is bigger than a T. rex.

Claire is in talks with Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) about the safety measures to be taken for this new dinosaur. Meanwhile, together with Barry (Omar Sy), Owen is training velociraptors to act like dogs which is something that raises the curiosity of Vic Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio), the head of security at the company that had owned the first park.

Vic wants to make the dinosaurs a weapon of war, something which others do not agree on. That is when Indominus Rex escapes his compound and havoc ensues.

Jurassic World’s earth-shattering box office debut is one for the history books but, apart from that, and the nostalgia that surely enough is part of the package, this is a well-made and structured mega-budget monster movie feature.

The film’s main attractions are the technology and the dinosaurs that are delivered in a flawless manner

The film fits smoothly into the canon created by Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton. It shows there is still flesh to the franchise: it’s not just a brand exercise but a muscular movie that propels ahead with all the right snarls and bravado to make it worthy of the first two movies.

Director Colin Trevorrow, who is here making his first foray into mega-budget film-making, emulates, pays homage to and is happy to walk in Spielberg’s original movie’s path. In doing so, he gives us a park that has everything from a petting zoo to dinosaur rides and more.

This film begs viewers to immerse themselves into the experience, only to find that we do not have the time to pay attention to all the detail that is on show as one is all too busy trying to survive. Trevorrow knows well how to inject adrenaline into a movie feature.

Amidst all this, the film’s main attractions are the technology and the dinosaurs that are delivered in a flawless manner. Indominus Rex is a monster of a beast while the velociraptors are still a joy to behold in their trademark cold and calculating manner.

The computer-generated effects are very well developed and set standards for other monster movies.

Pratt shows he is star material as he runs away with his adventurous look, while Dallas Howard provides the right eye candy.

Spread over a number of well-laid secondary plots, the film is well balanced in terms of plot strands and brings several crescendos to the proceedings.

By the end, the scenes of chaos and destruction, combined with the adrenaline rush, make this a movie where the emphasis is no longer on making us believe that dinosaurs exist on screen. The audience knows they do!

So here the emphasis is simple: deliver dinosaur action and keep the audience on their toes. Jurassic World does that and more.

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