Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - An Unnecessary Sequel

in #movie6 years ago

It was already released the second project of Jurassic Park and it seems a this is going in the wrong direction.

What Is The Context?

After more than 20 years after the huge success of Jurassic Park, Spielberg decided to produce the reboot of the story. The conflict starts in Jurassic World [2015] when new characters engage in a reptile journey in the classic park of the 90s. What happened? Exactly, the same, an adventure escaping from Dinosaurs after things got out of control.

The idea was fresh, also innovation in technology and variations inside the parameters of the original story without many far-fetched changes of the 90s script gave wonderful results. However, the second part is not exactly becoming as satisfactory as its predecessor...

What Happens Now?

You know what they say, the history never repeats but most of the times it rhymes, and right now, Fallen Kingdom is taking the same tone that the second and third movies done at the end of the 90s/beginning of 00s did. It is definitely directed to an adrenaline withdraw after an overdose of action. Jurassic Park is a gem of the film history and any try to extend it, it is just an inevitable fail. And this sequel totally proves it.

Why Sequeling Jurassic Park Is impossible?

The beauty in this film is the original script with pseudo-science and suspense; the original story is based on a technology where scientists recovered dinosaurs' DNA and succeed at bringing them back to life. This in combination with the adventure of being in a zoo where the monsters get out of their cages it is as original and realistic as it could be.

That is the reason why Jurassic Park cannot be sequenced, any addendum to the original story and alteration of the "futuristic zoo" escapade might change the genre of the film from a horror-classy-sci-fi to... Something else.
And that is exactly what happened toFallen Kingdom.

What Is Wrong With Fallen Kingdom? [Spoiler Alert]

The original receipt of the film was unglamorously modified. Since it cannot be repeated the same drama of the futuristic zoo getting out of control for the fifth time, they found the idea of returning to the island to rescue some species to save them from extinction due to a volcano threatening the park. Now, the mix of the rescue-and-escape adventure plus the tic-toc of the volcano erupting made the film to go so fast and fierce that it turns into a great experience; nonetheless, the same "let´s escape the dinosaurs" story is, due to one trigger or another, repeated.
So what can the writers come up with?
Ta-da! A conspiracy theory mixed the with genetic weaponry...


The second part of the film is there to tell how the genetic engineering of hybrid dinosaurs' creation and their hyperintelligence can be used as a world peace thread while being auctioned to the criminal elites; auction that of course, got out of control again.

When the film was finishing, and the world leads forecasted how dinosaurs could be a threat to human extinction while the few reptiles ran free through the city, I started doubting if what is coming up is the paleolithic version of Resident Evil. So, a complete mess of great visual effects, destroying what can actually be a super interesting and realistic survival drama.

This revival of Jurassic Park is the living example of two huge problems in the current cinema age. The first is that visual effects are dragging down scripts. In the 90s they will only dream of making such a realistic monster, so they made impeccable scripts. Now, the prerogative - and money - to invest in productions, directly hit down the quality of the story, thus, turning a potential artistic cinema into a commercial film. On the other hand, Fallen Kingdom teaches us that any try to modify the simple but perfect combination can easily turn a classy prosciutto pizza into a pineapple one.

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