Jurassic World (2015)

JURASSIC WORLD  (2015)  ¢ ¢
    D: Colin Trevorrow
    Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan,
    Vincent O'Onofrio, Omar Sy, Judy Greer
Big-ass dinosaurs terrorize and chew up idiot tourists at a theme park in Costa Rica. Because if you can genetically modify the monsters to make them even even bigger and scarier and more dangerous, that's a good thing, right? Well, no, not when you're working from such a tired, recycled script. Vincent D'Onofrio channels Brian Dennehy as the heavy (and he is heavy). Chris Pratt channels Patrick Swayze (or tries to) as the park's resident raptor wrangler. Bryce Dallas Howard plays the executive in charge of P.R. and profits, a ruthless control freak whose inflexibility starts to slip away, along with some of her clothing, as the situation she's helped create goes out of control. And the franchise grinds on, looking more and more like something made for TV. When an animatronic dinosaur is nine times more expressive than any human on the screen, okay, maybe it's not too surprising in something like this, but it's probably not a good sign, either.