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*Spoilers* IMO the movie was hot garbage. Surely the writers were trolling us when they made the plot about creating mutant dinos because the public was bored (that's exactly what they did in reality by creating this movie). The "plot" was laughably incoherent. 2 of the 3 dino samples were from a terrestrial dino and from an airborne one respectively... but our intrepid heroes embark on a boat to obtain all 3... and only manage to get on the island by wrecking said boat (what was the plan?). A massive corporation possessed of enough means to acquire Ingen in liquidation sends one "evil corporate" guy who has to hire a rag-tag bunch of mercs suffering from PTSD and a small boat "because the operation has to be covert". Oh yes, the said PTSD was caused by various deep inter-personal bonds the mercs had with family / colleagues etc (these are mercenaries btw). The meisosaur is approximately double the size of the boat but its chosen attack is to do whale-breachings alongside. Perhaps the splashes would drown the prey. Also the spinosaurs "mutualistically" help the meiso eat 1 human... one would have thought the meiso would have found the arrangement "fishy" given the cost-to-benefit ratio compared to simply eating a spino. This elite team of mercs had zero weapons brought with them throughout the entire movie other than that one dude from Alita that had some water pistol that shot wholly-ineffective poison cartridges. Seriously they did not even have combat knives but hey, no worries, while we are here wrecked on a beach, hey here's a wirecutter to cut through the high tensile fence in one clip. Speaking of the beach scene, that one woman gets so brutally eaten by the spino that they have to shield the audience from it. Immediately after she gets eaten, the reaction of everybody else on the beach is "Oh GAAWD NO... oh well back to work and some wise-cracks" lmao. Oh yes the mutated dino gets loose in the beginning because a Snickers wrapper blew into the decontamination room (that is literally the reason... seriously gives me the impression that the writers view the audience as imbeciles... perhaps I am one for watching this movie to conclusion). At some point it seems clear to me that the writers / directors were like "dang it... this doesn't make any sense to us either... oh well let's just fall back on the trope of rehashing successful scenes from the original movies and maybe a sprinkling of Aliens for the tunnel scenes". This was bad enough but the plagiarism wasn't even done well... the mutated petrodactyl thingies that were supposed to be the velociraptors from the original movie couldn't be taken seriously at all because they bore an uncanny resemblance to Danny de Vito's Penguin from the Batman movie. Cue the wistful original Jurassic Park theme music playing incessantly throughout... yes that will definitely pull on the heartstrings, all is forgiven (#sarcasm). Marvelous acting... not. Too many examples to mention but a particularly egregious one imo was each actor repeating the same dumb lines twice in succession "to convey the danger and urgency of the situation" when they launch the boat at the end. "Hurry up! Hurry up!" "Look out! Look out!" and so forth. Also the utterly implausible mini-pet dino with some improbable name, Dolores I think it was. The original movie remains a tour-de-force with sublime production values... oh how far we have fallen.