Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) - “Life finds a way”

These creatures were here before us. And if we’re not careful… they’re going to be here after. Life cannot be contained. Life breaks free. Life… finds a way.

The best thing that happened to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was to break free from the whole park narrative. It worked in 2015 because the new trilogy was sucking life out of the first movie, you know, the one that for many of us remains the best.  What this sequel does is concentrate on the what if scenarios that filled the minds and curled the blood of moviegoers. 

Fallen Kingdom falls into the pit of “here’s a new hybrid,deal with it” but adds more soul when it comes to the dinosaurs. The whole Indoraptor bread to be used by the military and whomever pays the most was a clever plot device because it touches on the reality of our world and let’s face it, it might be a mere movie but the dialogue and the logic was realistic. If it comes to be the best, you walk on corpses or buy dinosaurs to kill and maim. The scenario follows the duality of man who falls victim of his own hubris. Creator and destroyer.

Brace yourselves for some tearjerker scenes. You’ve seen “The Land Before Time”? You recall how Littlefoot’s mom died? Well, you’ll see a long neck dino in a familiar scene, meeting its end on the Isla Nublar. It makes you sob like a child, together with the scenes in which the dinos are in mortal danger.

The best of the best in this movie remains Blue, the lovely raptor who captured our hearts in 2015 and now won us allover again. Blue is the glue that holds this movie together and we can simply ignore the humans and the star cameos in this movie. The scenes with Blue as a baby imprinting on Owen and displaying emotions beyond the usual attachments of a dino are the best and leave room for potential plots for the next movie.

Maisie, the niece of Lockwood/Hammond and way more than first meets the eyes, at first seems your usual child thrown in this type of movie because all Jurassic movie had kids around the grown ups and the dinos. However, Maisie and Blue might be tied to whatever the third installment will bring and Hammond’s dream of a dinosaurs utopia was more than a dream. It was a desperate measure to recapture what nature took away. 

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom is packed with the usual dose of nostalgia and borrows on Jurassic 2, it adds new horror layers which are welcomed and the usual amount of military meet genetics meet greedy asshole who think they can control dinosaur. As Ian Malcom said so well: life finds a way and in Fallen Kingdom, dinos are might conquer world. It remains to be seen if the writers of this tenth-pole will not take the endless, brilliant opportunities and turn them into Super Mario Bros.