A volcano threatens to destroy Isla Nubla, together with the dinosaurs on it, so Claire and Owen reluctantly accept the offer of the rich Sir Lockwood to help relocate the dinosaurs to mainland to save them. However, the team leader Wheatley abandons Owen, Claire and Franklin after retrieving Blue, the trained Velociraptor. An assistant, Mills, double crosses and kills Sir Lockwood to sell the captured dinosaurs at an auction for military purposes. Wheatley is killed while trying to take a tooth from a tranquilized Indoraptor that escapes from its cage. However, Blue kills the Indoraptor. When a gas leaks inside the storage, Sir Lockwood’s cloned daughter Maisie frees the dinosaurs, who thus now roam the Earth again.
After a good reboot of the "Jurassic Park" franchise with "Jurassic World", the sequel made a step back again, settling for a solid, but downright predictable, cheap and monotone film with a story riddled with plot holes. The only good part is the opening act which poses a complex ethical question—would it be justified in letting the cloned dinosaurs just go excinct for a second time around or should mankind relocate and save them from the island about to collapse from a volcano? This is indeed something to ponder about, but sadly the movie abandons the debate to just focus on the stale, routine plot of hunters capturing dinosaurs to bring them to a military auction—which is itself misguided, since dinosaurs would simply be inefficient in modern warfare with high-tech weapons. Several insanely illogical moments shake the film.
In one, the three human characters hide in front of a gyrosphere vehicle while dozens of giant dinosaurs are running left and right from them, fleeing from lava. A carnivore dinosaur shows up, Carnotaurus, but instead of Owen running inside the gyrosphere, he just stands there (!), looking at the dinosaur as it slowly approaches. Owen is then suddenly gone, while Claire and a man inside just leave the door open (!), as the dinosaur's head slowly leans close to the door, mimicking the T Rex scene from "Jurassic Park", until predictably, another dinosaur shows up from nowhere to interrupt it. Anyone with common sense would certainly close the door upon seeing the dinosaur approaching. The rest of the movie is equally as plausible and reasonable. The way the villain Wheatley is killed, through his greed to collect teeth from tranquilized dinosaurs, is so dumb it's almost a comedy. However, the image of Indoraptor climbing on the rooftop of the mansion to enter Maisie's bedroom from the window is kind of creepy, whereas the "invasive species" ending (the surfers scene) tickles the imagination. "Fallen Kingdom" turned into an exploitative film: people love watching dinosaurs, sure, but here everything is neglected (characters, story, style) except for the visual effects of the reptiles. Watching this dinosaur 'fan service' is almost like watching a stand-up comedian just reading a phone book on stage for two hours, since the producers thought he is so popular the audience just needs to hear him say anything to be satisfied.
Grade:+
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