Comment by SlowTao
7 days ago
Pretty much this. I saw the latest Jurassic whatever film on the weekend. 6 out of 10. It is some cheap but well done thrills that achieves exactly what it set out to do.
Not every film has the strive for some great metaphors, and the ones in the film are basically "greed bad" but that doesn't stop the action for more than a minute at best.
The pc cliches involving the random family put my teeth on edge. I kept hoping they’d get picked off one by one and that would the reason for the R rating. You can tell a movie is bad when you actually despise the characters meant to be the most endearing.
I didn't really think of the family as a PC addition but I can see that angle as well. I kind of just switch off any kind of higher analysis on films like this. I didn't mind the family but that is mostly because they didn't dwell on them for long periods. If the entire film was them... yeah I probably wouldn't be so happy with this one.
But this one was following such cliche on who survives and who doesn't, they were always going to live. ;)