'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom': They should have just left the dinosaurs alone

A hit franchise of1990s, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, captured the imagination of every child back in the day. The possibility of dinosaurs still co-existing in today's timefascinated everyone. And while everyone knew that it a typical man vs beast cinema, which remotely did not have a possibility of coming true, people still regaled at the film's scale.

Almost two decades later, in 2015, director Colin Trevorrow brought Spielberg’s franchise back to life. Jurassic World was about a futuristic adventure park, where dinosaurs were genetically modified to appease visitors. The film, despite its logic-defying storyline, was an enormous hit. Afterall those who grew up in the 1990s had a found piece of their childhood back. But for how long can one milk the same, jaded story? Should a success of a film be the only prerequisite for another illogical sequel?

Director JA Bayona's Jurassic World:Fallen Kingdom almost picks up from where the 2015 blockbuster ended. The amusement park no longer exists, and threats to natural habitat loom large as volcanic eruptions in that area can not only destroy the natural habitat but also the existing dinosaurs. So it is up to Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) to rescue these dinosaurs secretly to another location which billionaire philanthropist Benjamin Lockwood has created for these creatures away from humanity even as the Amercian government debate over what to do with these creatures.

The only glitch is while Claire and Owen land at the island to get the beasts out, a parallel group wants to take them captive and sell and clone them for warfare.

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Now, we know that the film is hugely fictionalised yet you want to go along with the story in the beginning. After all, it is fascinating to watch huge creatures, which are extinct in real life, come alive on the big screen. But writers Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly fail to generate any kind of interest with the story from the word 'go'. The fact that the film presents the possibility of genetically cloning dinosaurs in the near future should have ideally been played up. But instead - it is mentioned rather hurriedly.

What the film does do, is give us flashbacks of old Jurassic Park films. Some of the most thrilling (and chilling moments) from the various films of the franchise are recreated once more in this film. Which says a lot about the story- which has to fall back on two-decade-old moments to create the histrionics.

In the end, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is just like any other dinosaur movie, where the giant animals choose to go after the bad guys and obey the good guys.

The film suffers majorly because of its predictability and that is perhaps the weakest point of the film. The frames by cinematographer Oscar Faura are stunning and the VFX is prasieworthy.But that alone cannot take the film to a thrilling height.

The actors, Howard and Pratt, lack any kind of chemistry- they play ex-lovers. There is Jeff Goldblum in a cameo appearance - just so that we can connect with the old films. But Goldman's presence is abysmal and a poorly written script mars almost all the actors' performance. Overall the film is a giant disappointment.

Give this a skip. Let the dinosaurs be.