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Jurassic World - A Review

As a child, I was scared was monsters, dinosaurs, big teeth, big claws, the lot. To an extent, I still am and have no qualms in admitting it. Bloodshed scares me; heck I can't even get through 'Child's Play' or 'Omen' without getting scared, forget mature and established horror genre. By far, the most horrifying experience of Jurrasic Park for me was when the raptors were fed in their holding. The whole idea of a tangled cow being lowered as bait and then rising - all broken and covered in blood shook me up for weeks. Let's not even get to the T-Rex right now. A decade and some later, I decided to see how such a great piece of work could be bettered. Considering how CG has evolved over time, I expected to be scared to death, but strangely, there wasn't much of it. In fact, I appreciated the movie for it's storyline where a fair amount of emphsis has been laid on how business people can easily dismiss a living animal as an 'asset'. Charac...