Not much there for the adults though, besides a nostalgia trip that might as well been an amusement ride in-of-itself. Here is this relic from this scene in JP, there that thing is again, remember this area? Etc. I was really hoping I would get a more visceral feel from the raptors, but they just laid them out for all to see, gladly showing how firm our boot over them is, until they try and make a point that these are still wild animals, but in doing so they also force them into some unnatural-ass conversations between species. I guess I expected 6 foot high squirrels on steroids, darting about instead of the raptor platoon that lines up shoulder to shoulder. Can't say I didn't grow up with similar fantasies as a child, but this felt too weak for me. I wanted some guy to put the people around him on edge, to knock a bystander out in front of his raptors just to make a point and keep that grip firm. Instead we got cool guy with his cool hands and his cool clicky pen. I'm not even bitching about the movie itself really, just nitpicking every little thing because I've daydreamed about this shit since 93. I did appreciate the original T-Rex though, that was a nice touch having it barrel through a Spinosaurus skeleton. Felt like a right correcting a wrong, but even with all the self-aware lines like "They are dinosaurs, wow enough" and "INDOMINUS rex? Are you serious?" the Indominus still felt shitty and incredibly scripted. It's real easy to vilify a beast, or a human for that matter with just a monologue or two about their insidious plans, but it strikes me as incredibly lazy and boring. Then again things were generally ass backwards in this movie, we cheered on the woman and mourned the man who manufactured this whole massacre with blind ambition driven by pure greed while awaiting some form of justice for a dinosaur roaming an open island, slave to instinct.
But Raptors. Make that a 6.1/10.