Colette Solebo

This film was such a breath of fresh air! Best animation I've seen in years.

Throughly enjoyed this brilliantly cast dark satire. Won't risk spoilers but it's a film you'll think about for a very long time.

The best way to sum this film up... would have been to well.. Sum it up. It ran way too long to tell the story it dragged through the least original or interesting Jurassic landscape in the entire franchise. It brought in the big guns, and sent them scurrying through predictable and unimaginative creature chases through, yet again a very dull lab-scape. The smaller/more recent stars were dropped out of planes into ice lakes, chased by weird hybrid monsters we had no information about. One of the main pluses of the original film was how clever you felt after the mini- lectures on paleontology or paleobotany, served to illuminate and frighten you through the entire adventure. This film assumed too much was known aforehand, and thus fell into the Fallacy suffered by long running TV series, which usually heralds mid season cancellation. If you feel the audience is familiar with your setup, and can't Wow a fresh set of eyes and ears, you've got a cancellation in your future. As someone who rewatched the Park and World movies in preparation, I was saddened to see such a lacklustre "lump it all in" approach to this "Final" film. Michael Crichton's exciting story deserved a bit more.

Ah, no. It got carried away with its own cleverness and needlessly wallowed in its hard won niche premise. It could have really soared but it boomeranged into the pit of toilet humor from whence it had worked so hard to escape. The horrendous cataclysm that was the ending is as unforgettable as it is unforgivable. As a satire it had glorious promise, but the execution, a $2 ham.

It gave me a headache. The plot was something many avid Syfyers,were hoping,would be an elegant series of novel switches, folds and loops. Sadly, instead of origami, we got a shiny, uneven tangled mess of damp yarn. As an audience we initially went, "aha, yes, hmm..." An hour in, it was "hmm, yes, but... really, uuummm, hmm ..if you say so" By the end, anyone still awake was unsure if they were in the same theatre or whether THEY were part of some mind-bending experiment. It was a choppy, uneven slightly arrogant rendering of a story, that in the end was barely important enough to have been told. This is what happens when excellent Directors dont get honest feedback on their, less- than- great ideas. Nolan is one of the best. This movie is one of his worst... blame it on COVID19 mate, and chalk this up as the epic fail it was. Ps. no sequels necessary, that ending will be looking for a dark place to hide until it pops out in Australia!