Three years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on Isla Nublar. So, Claire Dearing recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.
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Film Cast:
- Owen Grady: Chris Pratt
- Claire Dearing: Bryce Dallas Howard
- Eli Mills: Rafe Spall
- Franklin Webb: Justice Smith
- Zia Rodriguez: Daniella Pineda
- Benjamin Lockwood: James Cromwell
- Mr. Eversoll: Toby Jones
- Ken Wheatley: Ted Levine
- Dr. Ian Malcolm: Jeff Goldblum
- Dr. Henry Wu: BD Wong
- Iris: Geraldine Chaplin
- Maisie Lockwood: Isabella Sermon
- Tech Merc: Robert Emms
- Senator Sherwood: Peter Jason
- Sub Pilot: Kevin Layne
- Tech Operator: John Schwab
- Helicopter Pilot: Sam Redford
- Lead Mercenary: Charlie Rawes
- Prop Plane Pilot: Patrick Crowley
- Russian Mob Guy: Alex Dower
- Russian Girlfriend: Honey Holmes
- Russian Bidder: Neil Bishop
- BBC News Anchor: Philippa Thomas
- Brutish Mercenary: Ronan Summers
- Committee Chairman: Cory Peterson
- Hero Tracker: Jeremy Gilbert
- Crewman: Victor Gardener
- Another Bidder: Daryl Kwan
- Helicopter Merc: Eric Kofi Abrefa
- Helicopter Merc: Ben Peel
- Helicopter Merc: Mark Griffin
- Bearded Merc: Paul Sockett
- Mercenary in Tunnel: Doug Robson
- Mill’s Man: Gil Kolirin
- Surfer: Nathan Florence
- Surfer: Bryan Phillips
- Jungle Merc: Mitchell L. Johnson
- Boat Crew: Ian Copley-Johnson
- InGen Contractor: Michael Papajohn
- Russian Bodyguard: Daniel Stisen
- (archive footage): Gary Weeks
Film Crew:
- Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
- Producer: Frank Marshall
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Christopher Boyes
- Stunts: Kim McGarrity
- Sound Designer: Gary Rydstrom
- Stunts: Brian L. Keaulana
- Characters: Michael Crichton
- Set Designer: Stella Vaccaro
- Visual Effects: Phil Tippett
- Dialogue Editor: Michael Silvers
- Foley: Dennie Thorpe
- Foley: Jana Vance
- Production Design: Andy Nicholson
- Costume Design: Sammy Sheldon
- Stunt Coordinator: Stuart Clark
- Stunt Coordinator: Rob Inch
- Stunts: Matthew Stirling
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Myers
- Original Music Composer: Michael Giacchino
- Set Decoration: Tina Jones
- Casting: Nina Gold
- Editor: Bernat Vilaplana
- Producer: Belén Atienza
- Producer: Patrick Crowley
- Hairstylist: Mary L. Mastro
- Supervising Art Director: Andrew Max Cahn
- Director: J. A. Bayona
- Director of Photography: Óscar Faura
- Executive Producer: Thomas Tull
- Digital Intermediate: Stefan Sonnenfeld
- Stunts: Marvin Campbell
- ADR Voice Casting: Holly Dorff
- Still Photographer: Giles Keyte
- Stunts: David Forman
- Property Master: Graeme Purdy
- Stunts: Paul Howell
- Stunts: Ray Nicholas
- Stunts: Gene Hartline
- Stunts: Theo Kypri
- Stunts: Danko Jordanov
- Writer: Colin Trevorrow
- Supervising Art Director: Jason Knox-Johnston
- Writer: Derek Connolly
- Stunts: Jim Wilkey
- Stunt Driver: Craig H. Davidson
- Stunt Coordinator: C.C. Smiff
- Makeup Artist: Vivian Baker
- Stunts: Radoslav Parvanov
- Set Dresser: Justin Powers
- Art Department Coordinator: Tabitha Quitman
- Stunts: Peter Miles
- Stunt Double: Rachelle Beinart
- Utility Stunts: Charles Haugk
- Stunts: Gary Price
- Stunts: Evangelos Grecos
- Art Direction: Matt Wynne
- Costume Supervisor: Linda Matthews
- Costume Supervisor: Nicole Young
- Property Master: Gary Tuers
- Dialogue Editor: Cheryl Nardi
- Supervising Sound Editor: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- Art Direction: Marco Anton Restivo
- Art Direction: Anthony Caron-Delion
- Assistant Art Director: Matt Sims
- Stunt Driver: Keith Adams
- Gaffer: Joshua Davis
- Art Direction: Guy Bradley
- Stunts: Joe Kennard
- Stunts: Laurent Plancel
- Visual Effects Editor: Zack Mazerolle
- Aerial Director of Photography: Jeremy Braben
- Stunts: Joe Watts
- Hairstylist: Mahealani Diego
- Construction Coordinator: Robert A. Blackburn
- Script Supervisor: Jo Beckett
- Sound Designer: Oriol Tarragó
- Steadicam Operator: Maceo Bishop
- Steadicam Operator: Pete Cavaciuti
- Visual Effects Producer: Daniel Barrow
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Adam Rowland
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Dave Morley
- Script Supervisor: Rebecca Sheridan
- Hair Department Head: Peter Tothpal
- Foley: Luke Dunn Gielmuda
- Visual Effects Supervisor: David Vickery
- Sound Effects Editor: Scott Guitteau
- Stunt Double: Regis Harrington
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Pete Horner
- Producer: Thomas Hayslip
- Assistant Art Director: Anna Bregman
- Sound Designer: Al Nelson
- Rigging Gaffer: Steve Kitchen
- Animatronics Designer: Peter Hawkins
- Stunts: Nito Larioza
- Hair Department Head: Frances Hannon
- Hairstylist: Zoey Stones
- Gaffer: Lee Walters
- Dialect Coach: Sarah Shepherd
- Hairstylist: Charlotte Rogers
- Digital Intermediate: Shaun Richards
- Makeup Supervisor: Sarah Grispo
- Lead Animator: Tom St. Amand
- Makeup Artist: Chantal Boom’la
- Makeup Artist: Laine Rykes
- Key Hair Stylist: Sian Miller
- ADR Editor: Rachael Tate
- Visual Effects Editor: Mark S. Wright
- Production Assistant: Natalie Cordray
- Storyboard Artist: David Lowery
- Set Dresser: Christopher J. Wood
- Sound Effects Editor: Benjamin A. Burtt
- Foley Editor: Chris Manning
- Special Effects Supervisor: Michael Meinardus
- Stunt Double: Dean Bailey
- Stunt Double: Tony McFarr
- Stunts: Kasim Saul
- Lighting Technician: Stephen Bacquet
- Best Boy Electric: Gregory Doi
- Best Boy Electric: Chris Weigand
- Art Department Coordinator: Andrea Carter
- Animation Supervisor: Stephen Aplin
- Camera Operator: Richard Roles
- Stunt Driver: Dickey Beer
- Stunts: Josh Dyer
- Assistant Art Director: Michael Gowen
- Casting Associate: Martin Ware
- Dialogue Editor: Will Ralston
- Production Coordinator: Tom Carson
- Production Coordinator: Miranda Marks
- Hairstylist: Nicky Knowles
- Sound Effects Editor: Christopher Barnett
- Dolly Grip: Alex Coverley
- VFX Supervisor: Oliver Cubbage
- VFX Supervisor: James D. Fleming
- Lead Animator: Marc Calvelo
- VFX Supervisor: Alex Wuttke
- Stunts: Gary Hoptrough
- Still Photographer: Jonathan Prime
- Stunts: Brian Nickels
- Stunts: Giedrius Nagys
- Visual Effects Editor: Tom Balogh
- Set Costumer: Cesha Ventre
- Casting Associate: Judith Sunga
- Set Dresser: Hale Mawae
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Nicholas Hurst
- Hair Supervisor: Karen Cohen
- Visual Effects Editor: Sam Paul Toms
- Stunts: Terry Ahue
- Stunts: Danny Kim
- Stunt Driver: Lee Millham
- Dialogue Editor: James Spencer
- Dialect Coach: Kamil Lemieszewski
- Foley Editor: Dmitri Makarov
- Title Designer: Matt Curtis
- Unit Publicist: Katherine McCormack
- Production Controller: Helen Medrano
- Travel Coordinator: Grant Grabowski
- Assistant Accountant: Linda Griffis
- First Assistant Editor: Tom Davis
- Stunts: Chris Morrison
- Special Effects Coordinator: Adam Heinis
- Set Dresser: Julie DeRose
- VFX Supervisor: Alex Wang
- Stunts: Danny Euston
- Stunts: Daniel Naprous
- Rigging Gaffer: Edward J. Cox
- Key Grip: Jerry C. Deats
- Script Supervisor: Claire Chang
- Script Supervisor: Erin Mast
- Key Costumer: Jimmy Jay
- 3D Generalist: Tom Cowlishaw
- Key Grip: Jimi Ryan
- Marine Coordinator: Daniel F. Malone
- Aerial Camera Technician: Peter Graf
- Stunts: John Macdonald
- Stunts: William Willoughby
- Dolly Grip: Richard T. Hoover
- VFX Editor: Magdalena Turnier
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Lila Sara Tahri
- Assistant Art Director: Thomas Goodwin
- Assistant Art Director: Laura Miller
- Production Coordinator: Simon Mills
- Sound Effects Editor: Martí Albert
- Assistant Editor: Luke Clare
- Assistant Costume Designer: Poli Kyriacou
- Costume Coordinator: Robin Jiro Hall
- Camera Operator: Matthew Poynter
- Drone Operator: Peter Ayriss
- Pyrotechnician: Skylar Gorrell
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Trang Dang
- Stunts: Theo Morton
- Stunts: Tom Rodgers
- Stunts: Belinda McGinley
- Stunts: Tony Christian
- Stunts: James O’Daly
- Marine Coordinator: Daren Bailey
- Makeup Department Head: Sally Sutton
- Stunts: Rick English
- Stunts: Lukaz Leong
- Hairstylist: Helen Barrett
- Digital Intermediate: Lawrence Hook
- Stunts: Aden Stay
- Art Direction: Renate Nicolaisen
- Creature Technical Director: Nora Wixom
- Lead Animator: Ted Lister
- First Assistant Accountant: Rebecca Feldman
- Aerial Coordinator: Mike Woodley
- Stunts: James Bomalick
- Key Grip: Alex Mott
- Production Assistant: Corey Knef
- Pilot: Giles Dumper
- Hairstylist: Sarah Hamilton
- Casting Associate: Karen Woods
- Animatronics Designer: Giles Hannagan
- Animatronics Designer: Alan Murphy
- Supervising Armorer: Tim Lewis
- Visual Effects Art Director: Jama Jurabaev
- Dolly Grip: Eric Ward
- Lighting Technician: Jamie Bruce
- Lighting Technician: Joe Hissey
- Lighting Technician: William Self
- Set Dresser: Tom Curtis
- Set Dresser: Derrick Kaupiko
- Set Dresser: Craig K. Lewis
- Set Dresser: Johanne Mitchell
- Set Dresser: Richard Ruhe
- Armorer: Christopher Atherton
- Sound Recordist: Raemond Cook
- Animatronics Designer: Andy Colquhoun
- Animatronics Designer: Nick Martin
- 2D Supervisor: Giorgio Pitino
- 3D Generalist: Sergio Garcia Poderoso
- Animation Director: Jance Rubinchik
- Animation Director: Glen McIntosh
- Creature Technical Director: Fabio Siino
- Creature Technical Director: Cantatore Vittorio
- Creature Technical Director: Andre Metello
- Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Pawl Fulker
- VFX Production Coordinator: Keith Anthony-Brown
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Amandine Gutierrez
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Lane Howard
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Lisa Wakeley
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Lilles Whitby
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Hannah Johnson
- Visual Effects Producer: Kathryn Horton
- Visual Effects Producer: Josh Sykes
- Assistant Costume Designer: Sophie Canale
- Set Costumer: Erika K. Aresta
- Wardrobe Supervisor: Tom Hornsby
- Assistant Editor: Carlo Milillo
- Assistant Editor: Jeremy Richardson
- Stunts: Terry Cade
- Second Assistant Accountant: Lisa Kisner
- First Assistant Accountant: Nolan B. Medrano
- Stunt Coordinator: Nicole Chapman
- Stunts: Daryl Andrews
- Stunts: Fizz Hood
- Stunt Double: Florian Robin
- Stunt Double: Sarah Lochlan
- Stunts: Bradley Farmer
- Stunt Double: James Cox
- Stunts: Oliver Gough
- Stunts: Peter White
- Production Assistant: Simone Khoury
- Stunts: Tony Lazzara
- Payroll Accountant: Karen Bicknell
- Health and Safety: Barry May-Leybourne
- Stunts: Nicolas Wang
- Stunts: Rob Hunt
- Assistant Makeup Artist: Rachel Lennon
- Hairstylist: Emma Flowers
- Hairstylist: Cheryl Mitchell
- Assistant Accountant: Laura Anderson
- Assistant Accountant: Emma Harman
- Assistant Accountant: Charles Larcombe
- Assistant Accountant: Sarah Minchin
- Assistant Accountant: Satu Sharp
- Assistant Accountant: Karen Margaux Walker
- Assistant Accountant: Owen Keys
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Tom Ormerod
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Leah Kaina
- Chaperone: Emma Sermon
- Chaperone: Olivia de Laune
- First Assistant Accountant: El West
- First Assistant Accountant: Josh Nixon
- First Assistant Accountant: David Blank
- First Assistant Accountant: Marielena Alfonseca
- Health and Safety: Mark Rowan
- Health and Safety: Steve Abrey
- Payroll Accountant: Alex Kerr
- Payroll Accountant: David Danisovszky
- Payroll Accountant: Michael Neal
- Post Production Accountant: Yasmine Jade
- Production Assistant: Zack Dougan
- Production Assistant: Beau Harrington
- Production Assistant: Malia Hulleman
- Production Assistant: Simon Lam
- Production Assistant: Miranda McClellan
- Production Assistant: Ariana Miyake
- Production Assistant: Matthew Mulligan
- Production Assistant: Rhianna Shaheen
- Production Assistant: Ryland Young
- Production Assistant: Matthew Ellis
- Production Coordinator: David Halagarda
- Production Secretary: Robbie Torbuck
- Production Secretary: Lauren James
- Production Secretary: Danielle Rogers
- Second Assistant Accountant: Philipp Besa
- Second Assistant Accountant: Sharon M. Segal
- Second Assistant Accountant: Katherine Silva
- Security: Alam Ahmadi
- Security: Jason Devil
- Security: Cody Lassiter
- Set Medic: Liz Toys
- Set Production Assistant: Ian Petriello Eisenberg
- Set Production Assistant: Dais Kasagawa
- Set Production Assistant: Samuel Vargas
- Travel Coordinator: Luke Paul Martin
- Stunts: Rob Cooper
- Stunts: Jack Jagodka
- Stunts: David R. Grant
- Stunts: Jess Lundgren
- Stunts: Jessica Hooker
- Stunts: Josie Forman
- Stunts: Carly Michaels
- Stunts: Richard Wheeldon
- Stunts: Charlotte Williams
- Stunts: Katy Bullock
- Stunts: Liam Coote
- Stunt Double: Bonnie Campanella
- Stunts: Jason A. Triplett
- Stunts: Richard Hansen
- Stunts: Mark Slaughter
- Stunt Double: Lewis Young
- Stunts: Jonny James
- Graphic Designer: Michael Eaton
- Stunt Double: Ben Wright
- Stunts: Ramon Álvarez
- Stunts: Liong Tiang
- Stunts: James Stewart
- Stunts: Ian Songhurst
- Stunts: Zach Roberts
- Stunts: Andrej Riabokon
- Stunts: Rush Randle
- Utility Stunts: Jason Patterson
- Stunts: Racer Moody
- Stunts: Ryan Moniz
- Stunts: Chris Manger
- Stunt Driver: Lee Mayo
- Stunts: Don Malone
- Stunts: Bogdan Kumshatsky
- Stunts: Noah Johnson
- Stunts: Lawrence Hansen
- Stunt Double: John Francis Ginella
- Stunts: Brent Fletcher
- Stunts: Erik Fenske
- Stunts: Chris De Clerk
- Stunt Driver: Alexander Cruickshanks
- Stunts: Tom Cox
- Stunts: Tom Cotton
- Stunts: Mike Ryan
- VFX Artist: Jared Hasselbach
Movie Reviews:
- tmdb15214618: I felt embarrassed to be watching this. It’s an embarrassing fever dream. I abandoned it halfway through its runtime.
- Wuchak: More dinosaurs, Opie’s hot daughter, Dracula’s castle and Indiana Jones
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” (2018) revolves around Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Owen (Chris Pratt) leading a team back to Isla Nublar to save several species of dinosaurs after an active volcano threatens all life there. The plan is to relocate the dinosaurs to a new island sanctuary, but that’s not the way it works out.
My title blurb pretty much says it all for this fifth film in the franchise. I mention Indiana Jones because the movie has a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) vibe more so than the other movies. The reference to Dracula’s castle is due to the fact that the entire second half takes place at a cool, gothic chateau in Northern California and there’s a scene with a genetically-enhanced raptor acting like Dracula.
Curvy Bryce is just stunning throughout and easily blows away any other woman in the series. Meanwhile Pratt seriously upped his game as leading action hero (I wasn’t overly impressed with him in the previous film, although I didn’t dislike him either). At the end of the day I’d have to rank this installment as my favorite, followed by the original 1993 movie and 2015’s “Jurassic World.”
The film runs 2 hours, 8 minutes and was shot in Hawaii and England/Scotland.
GRADE: A-/B+
- Per Gunnar Jonsson: As a kid dinosaurs was one of my great interests. Thus I was so thrilled by the first Jurassic Park movie, which I thought then, and still think today, is a great movie. Sadly the following movies have been a mixed bag to say the least.
This movie falls in the “that was disappointing” category I am afraid. It is obviously that however wrote the story was a lazy bugger that simply rehashed old bits and standard Hollywood cheap concepts and then added some frustrating preaching to it.
The two scenes, one at the beginning and one in the end, where Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) was just sitting and ranting on and on was enough by itself to drag down the movie a star or two. We get it, however wrote that crap do not like gene science. Then go and write a piece in a science journal or something. Oh wait, it would not have been excepted since there was no science in it, just ranting mixed up with poorly hidden religious beliefs. So instead you had to go and ruin a movie which was meant to simply entertain.
The we have the rest of the story. The best, or should I say the kindest, word for describing it would be “predictable”. How many times are we going to do the big company captures animals for profit story? At least try to put some intelligence in the plot if you have to rehash it over and over again. It has even been done before in the same franchise for Christ sake!
I would lie if I did not say that I found, at least, some entertainment watching the movie though. But pretty much all of it came from watching the scenery and the special effects. They at least were pretty good. But then I do like big monsters stomping around wreaking havoc and eating people, especially when it is the bad guys.
There were some parts that was rather funny. I think Christ Pratt, and most of the other actors as well for that matter, did a fairly good job out of the lousy script. The idea of using a Stygimoloch to break free was quite cool and the havoc he wreaked somewhat funny. The part where Wheatley stop in the middle of all the chaos to extract a tooth as a bloody trophy was just silly though.
The end scenes was just frustrating. However wrote that ought to be shot. A few dinosaurs escape and then the conclusion is that humanity have to live side by side with dinosaurs from then one. What a load of rubbish!
Sadly, despite the genre being a favorite of mine and the special effects being pretty good, this film did not make it for me due to the unintelligent and lazy script.
- Gimly: A strong, **strong** opening that it never recovers* from.
(*”never recovers from” here meaning “never stops dissapointing afterwards”.)
_Final rating:★★½ – Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
- John Chard: Cover Version 2
It was 1993 when Jurassic Park was unleashed upon the film loving public, spawning a blockbuster franchise and pop culture thunders in the process. Sadly we now find ourselves suffering cover versions of what was once a great and thought provoking premise with high octane thrills into the bargain.
I guess once they started personalising the Velociraptors, making one of them a friend of man, it was the beginning of the end. But we accepted it – sort of – jumping into 2015’s Jurassic World with carefree abandon. More dino carnage we wanted, a bright cast fronted by the ever likable Chris Pratt and Bryce Howard drew us in, but it was merely ok, a franchise entry that was just a quick fix but nothing more. But of course box office talks and the franchise lumbers on to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom…
Plot returns to Isla Nublar which along with all the dinosaur inhabitants is about to be vanished from the planet by the mother of all volcanoes. Cue mankind jostling over whether to save a species that was once extinct whilst others have nefarious motives for financial gain.
Off we go then, stock characters that are over familiar are performed by different actors but go through motions we have witnessed before, whilst the writing strains for a sort of human empathy factor that never hits the mark. There is nothing remotely fresh (well Howard has at least changed her footwear to something more credible) or exciting on offer here, it’s a tired cash cow that’s in dire need of extinction itself.
Naturally another instalment will come along, and naturally it will make money, with myself and the other millions of Jurassic zombies filing in to view what we hope will be a return to the heady days back in 1993. But it’s most likely a forlorn hope, so maybe, just maybe, it should be enough now, enough? 5/10
- Sheldon Nylander: Brain hurt. Me no likey. Err…umm…ahem.
This is a movie that really stretches it as far as believability, logic, or even physics.
First, just a quick note: The trailer makes it seem like the movie spends its time on an island about to blow up. Less than half the movie is that. So, if you’re looking for a long drawn out volcanic eruption, look elsewhere.
The heroes are annoying and dumb caricatures, from the techie who’s afraid of everything to the wisecracking animal wrangler (in fairness, this is Chris Pratt’s character from the previous film, but still). The villains are short-sighted, moustache-twirling dolts who never seem to remember to watch behind them, especially in dangerous scenarios. And why was Jeff Goldblum even in this movie? He serves no purpose to the story. None at all. He’s there for them to say, “See! We have someone from the older movies, so it ties together.” That’s literally all he’s there to do for his two minutes of screen time.
It’s the same plot as every other Jurassic Park/World film. Let’s create/genetically engineer dinosaurs. What could possibly go wrong? Even the supposed “plot twist” could be figured out from the very beginning of the film. Basic physics don’t even apply, such as the impossible truck jump at one point. I swear I could feel my brain leaking out of my ears while watching this.
This film honestly makes me somewhat relieved that Colin Trevorrow got removed from Star Wars Episode IX. Unfortunately, the way this movie ends basically guarantees that there’s going to be another one. Although it begs the question about what happened to Jurassic Park III since it ends in a similar way. Is that film even supposed to be canon anymore?
Just don’t bother. Even if you love the dinosaur special effects of previous films, there’s really not much here that you didn’t see before, and some of it is actually pretty bad and unbelievable for a film from 2018. Just don’t bother.
- Tejas Nair: I spent half the time scoffing at the plot Jurassic World 2 was throwing at me, which diluted the fun I was having by looking at the superb CGI, moderate man-dinosaur action, and an overall fine cast performance. It still is a lot worse than Jurassic World (2015), which had a story almost as good as the original, the legendary Jurassic Park (1993) which almost seems impossible to mimic or better today. TN.