Jurassic World - A Review

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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'. Characters poles apart try and save people at the park from being completely eaten up by live dinosaurs; man made monsters.

Let's get the basics out of the way. This is not a sccary movie anyway you look at it. The production costs are sky high I'm sure, but there is not much in the way of drama. The story seems too lose with no background on how Jurrasic World happened after such a miserable failure of Jurrasic Park. It feels like the narrators should have taken their time to stitch together a tighter plot, one that probably takes a little time to explain, but makes the duration worthwhile. A lot of bits and pieces seem to be missing from the puzzle and I for one cannot take it. Yes the Indominos Rex is huge and all, but it's simply not scary enough and feels like every character has been exploited to half it's potential, sometimes less. The geeky younger brother dishes out facts about dinosaurs while the elder teenager is busy trying to score some girls - which never works out. Also, there seems to be a constant sense of trying to mimic the original in a few aspects, with the Jeep being replaced by a newer, fancier gyro enabled thing. And yeah, don't even get me started about how two boys can fix a car from scratch and escape. The only upshot is that the kids in this are not as badly affected as in the original. But for all it's fancy graphics, better visuals, better gadgetry, Jurrasic World fails to live up to the original on a lot of levels.

If not for a better story, they must have captured the essence of the original a lot better. It's not always about the money, it's about the story as well. Maybe dinosaurs don't scare me that much anymore - unless, a friend adopts a velociraptor for a pet.

A huge shout out to Triumph - oh Bonneville you beauty! 

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