Jurassic World: A very good dino-saga

Jurassic World
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan
Rated: 7/10
There is something about the original Jurassic Park that I have not been able to get over. Back then in 1993, such huge computer oriented dinosaurs were unheard of and unseen and Spielberg brought them into this world as alive as they were 65,000 years ago when they were real beings. Since then many have recreated them for the big screen but with minimal impact, and Spielberg never attempted to direct them again.
In the 2015 re-incarnation, the dinos have acquired many dimensions not to mention lots of teeth — technological teeth and even more technological mumbo-jumbo. So in Jurassic World, the T-Rexes, the raptors, the  tyrannosauruses and the those flying giants pterosaurs —they are all test tube babies lab born and bred to be bigger and fiercer monsters with no social instincts. “They are meant to scare you’ for profits, the co-ordinator of the Jurassic World Game Park on a sprawling Costa Rican Island tells you.
Of course, there is a Spielberg imprint on the entire proceedings but still it is hard to measure up to the first one that he conceived and directed. Having said that, the technology muscle and the hugeness of the monsters, and don’t forget, those gizmos Mercedez is so proud of, take you into another land of fast and furious dino wars and rogue monsters.
Amid all this there is the story of Claire and Owne who are on two ends of the ethics of breeding artificial monsters only to draw in the people and their money. While Owen hates this dangerous play with Nature while Claire is all for it because she has a park to run.
So we have an isolated, 50 feet high and 18 feet long at full growth hybrid whose DNA has been meddled with to include all the scary bits of mammals, fish and also poisonous reptiles. To top it, he is kept away, hidden from any contact except for that huge loaf of beef he gets through an airdrop every day.
There’s also the Indian connection in Irrfan who does well as the park director and unlike many superstars who have been short-shrifted in their Hollywood roles, he gets a much more meatier presence and lives up to it in quite a laconic manner. Sad though that the director didn’t know what to do with him at the end so he gets finished abruptly.
On the whole, it is a fast paced dino drama which often makes you forget that popcorn tub in your hands. In 3D, it’s quite the movie to go to. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, June 14, 2015

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