It's perhaps an understatement to say that some people don't enjoy all the movies in the Jurassic Park/World series. If you fall into that category, you can pick and choose which ones you'd like to own in crystal clear 4K resolution.
What made Jurassic Park work so well back in the '90s was that Spielberg and his crew knew how to make a movie with animals without being cruel. It navigated what a real-world scenario would be like if an extinct animal and humans crossed paths and all the chaos that came with that. But these Jurassic World films took a meaner approach to these dinosaurs that was not about exploration and science, but rather about making money and selling dinosaurs on the black market. These films did not have a kind bone in their body besides the hilarious element that Chris Pratt could be a Velicoraptor Whisperer. Now Jurassic World Dominion is set four years after the events of the last film, and offers zero original plot or engaging characters, even when the film brings back the three key stars that helped make the original film so memorable.
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The funny thing about this third and hopefully final film of this franchise is that it doesn't even rely on dinosaurs for being the main threat. Instead, it's a laughable locust that has been engineered to be the size of a submarine sandwich. These sandwich-sized locusts have now been eating all the world's grain at an alarming rate and will cause a mass extinction if something is not done about it. The leader of this diabolical outfit is the doppelganger for Tim Cook from Apple, which is where the political and social commentary comes into play, but other than corporations trying to make a quick buck at the expense of the human race is about as far as it goes. As far as this Tim Cook surrogate goes, he's such a terribly thought-out villain that he is willing to kill off the entire planet (and likely himself in the process) just to make money, which when anyone gets in his way, he throws a temper tantrum and punches rolling chairs.
Wealthy Billionaire John Hammond (David Attenborough) has devised a way to genetically clone dinosaurs from 65 million years ago and used his finances to create a giant zoo. The park is almost finished and has been kept secret from the world (in real life it would have leaked on Twitter), and Hammond is seeking the opinions of Paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sadler (Laura Dern), mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), the token Lawyer and his young niece and nephew. But when the park is sabotaged, the visitors are left to fend for their lives and attempt an escape.
Steven Spielberg directed the film with such style and panache and not only successfully brought near photo-realistic dinosaurs (not that any such photos exist of course) to the screen for the first time, but we were encouraged to believe these were real, living, breathing creatures. Part of the success of Jurassic Park was building the film around a tangible and believable world and introducing breathtaking effects which allowed the audience to truly accept and believe the world they were seeing. It's truly one of the few classics from the last two decades of film.
Despite flaws in other areas, Universal should be congratulated for including pretty much all the extra features produced for the film over its laserdisc and DVD releases, as well as a new two and a half hour documentary spread across all three movies. Let's jump in.
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Considering how long Bryce Dallas Howard spent playing Claire Dearing and promoting the Jurassic World trilogy, it makes a great deal of sense that she might have a strong emotional tie to the movies. Filming for the first Jurassic World movie dates back to April of 2014, so she spent nearly a decade working with the property and her colleagues.
While the 4K Blu-ray releases of the first four Jurassic movies all beat their HD Blu-rays for detail, their use of HDR looked slightly forced (though Jurassic World inevitably came out the best). They all looked a little grainy, too. Happily, the Fallen Kingdom 4K Blu-ray picture delivers a substantial video improvement over all of those previous Jurassic releases.
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