Three or four years after the destruction and shut down of the Jurassic World theme park on Isla Nubar, Claire Dearing and Owen Grady must team up to save the remaining dinosaurs from a long-dormant volcano that is now on the brink of erupting and destroying the island. Assistance to save the dinosaurs comes from an unlikely source - Benjamin Lockwood, the partner of John Hammond who helped create the original Jurassic Park 20+ years earlier. While the rescue mission is underway, a scheme to sell the dinosaurs to the highest bidder and also to turn them into the ultimate weapon of war is put into motion.
As mentioned in my previous review of Jurassic World, I predicted that this long-running series had to make some drastic changes in order to not run out of steam and die. Well, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom does manage to change course from the stereotypical "breaking out from the park and wreaking havoc", but not in a good way. If you've read my review of the last Transformers movie, then you'll know I usually can turn my brain off and just enjoy a movie despite having really stupid storylines or crap acting, etc. I tried, I really tried to with Fallen Kingdom, but for me it just wasn't enough this time around for me to enjoy the movie. It's extremely predictable - there's a major plot bomb (which I won't spoil here) that gets dropped about halfway through that I saw coming a mile away - and even the scenes where there was dino-on-dino action didn't do anything for me. Also, there are subplot points such as the aforementioned bombshell, where it seemed like the story didn't know what to do with it so the audience is told about it and then the rest of the subplot goes nowhere.
It's true, I've never had the fondness for this series like practically every single person in my generation who grew up seeing Jurassic Park as a kid (I never saw it myself until I was about 21-23 years old). Still, I did like the original enough to be decently excited when Jurassic World, and now Fallen Kingdom came out. I'm sure die-hard fans of the Jurassic Park/World series are going to love the heck out of this, but unfortunately it did nothing for me. It's undoubtedly one of the worst to come out this year for me.
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