(Note: This is a lengthy review, so get reading glasses if you need to.).
In my opinion, I believe that this is the most underrated JP film of the franchise. There's so much hate, but I believe that this film is a decent sequel to Jurassic World in terms of a film that theorizes human interactions towards the dino race. I have to admit, I believe that the film would have been better off with the following things:
1. A different name, as it doesn't really relate to the story.
2. More clarity to the story that's either a little hard to read or having too many things going on.
3. Not to hurt Justice Smith's feelings, but leaving out Franklin Webb.
However, I believe that JW2 speaks for itself on showing a decent thriller concept as people should see it at a different angle. Remember, this is a different trilogy. To me, the original trilogy was basically showing off dinosaur island, and surviving rampaging carnivores, from showing a dinosaur park, to surviving a dino in the city, to a random family trying to find their son surviving on dino island; the 3rd film was boring and episodic by the way.
As for this trilogy, it started out as a different Jurassic Park, with two differences: being open to the public, and the start of genetic hybrids. The main characters being Claire Dearing with empathy and textbook perspective with modernizing prehistoric life, and Owen Grady with an experience for survival and contact with the 2nd most intelligent species, the Raptors. Shortly after, the first ever made dino hybrid, the Indominus Rex, broke out of captivity, and destroyed the park, having the goal to kill everything, as it was genetically modified to do so, and then killed by the Mosasaurus. If the first film showed us certain things different from the original trilogy, it showed us the result of what would happen for humans to create rather than clone dinos for attraction, and how the display of ancient species could impact the rest of the human race, as well as how human interference impacts the subject of keeping dinosaurs in the Cenozoic era.
Now 3 years later, the island suffered dramatically after the Indominus outbreak. No visitors, deteriorated structures, and suddenly a volcano is about to make the dinos extinct; (John Hammond didn't probably noticed that time, who knows.) Owen and Claire went back to the island, so that they wouldn't have the very thing they believed in become gone forever and extinct, in order to put them in a safe haven untouched by humanity, so says Ian Lockwood, the villain with no empathy for the creatures and an example of the human being that doesn't care for natural risk. After the extinction of the island, leaving behind the past, then the film continues towards the dinos being treated like circus animals for money, and genetic modification once again with the creation of the world's so-called "most dangerous weapon," the Indoraptor.
The Indoraptor to me acts like the Indominus Rex but more of a tool that humans can control, the worst possible nightmare of genetic modification for human race gains, like winning wars. Then we have Lockwood's granddaughter, who then happens to be a clone, which I was surprised with by the way, that could either resemble genetic perfecting, or more plot twists. (Foreshadowing of JW3?!) After the Indoraptor's death from his genetic relative, Blue the raptor, the dinosaurs were then released, now running globally amok because of Ian's influence to sell what he didn't fully understood.
This film may have had a lot of questionable plot clarity, mixed with too many left-handed easter eggs to process, but it nonetheless is a decent example of a philosophical thriller. Like the first JW, it showed us the result of human
interference, but this time, with problematic
outcomes from other human beings, like further unnecessary genetics. Who knows what the next film would bring, but like Fallen Kingdom, it was because of Jurassic World.
It's at least worth watching again.