What a load of b.s.
Wow. And of course the fueling of hatred towards white people.
It's like asif all sci-fi and (a lot of) fantasy movies/series are all put together in one long list of scenes with an overal covering saus of a quest. This is while completing a set of challenges along the way to grow the fellowship. Does that sound familiar yet?
It's one near endless list of [strike]stolen[/strike] inspired by famous scenes and characters.
From 7 Samurai to Lords of the Rings, from Star Trek to Star Wars.
For example the spider from the mines combined with a Borg Queen lookalike.
Or a native american-look-a-llike who tames a bird, which then can go on to kill the oppressor.
Unfortunately the woke virus strikes again with racism against white people. The heroes are full on diversity, but every white guy in the movie is a traitor, suppressor or tiran (or a stupid farmer). Every person of color is a hero. Right.
And add on top of all this the terrible dialogues, mediocre to appalling 'acting' and that entire list of stolen scenes, etc..... This is just a piece of rubbish which only seems to be aimed at making 3D action scenes with as much fighting and explosions are possible.
I went into watching this with extremely low expectations. I realized when getting ready to watch Dominion, that I never even bothered to watch Fallen Kingdom. So...... I watched it and actually... it lived up to the expectations ;) So I decided to give it a 7 out of 10, as it was exactly what I expected. No its not a great movie. It's far from original. The typical computernerd needed to do some random computer magic by typing sudo and some statement on a terminal was of course present. Not sure if it was lack of inspiration or a wink to the earlier movies that they had to "reboot the system" (which was back then done by that blond girl, now it had to be a colored boy obviously, because, well, woke.)
The wokeness scale was not too crazy. Of course all the bad persons are all white men, because, well, woke. I did not detect any gay/trans promotion this time.
Some scenes from previous movies were kind of recycled - and that was a good thing! There was the connection to the previous movies in a proper way. Like the big open gras area where the dinos are running in the field - now the same but just.... well insert spoiler here. The big bad evil hunter was a bit too obvious for my taste. That was more lack of inspiration then a nod to the earlier movies.
Chris Pratt is mostly carrying the movie, along with Bryce Howard. I was not a big fan of the whol Eli Mills role/person/actor.
So... I'm around 26 minutes in and I already hate the stupidity.
First the positive:
Looks of the surroundings and nature in general are superb,
it seems more attention has gone to making some beautiful shots than actually having a proper story and dialogue.
Stupidity in the movie:
- 3 guys with guns, short distance, not one gets a hit of? I never fired a gun in my life, but I am quite confident to do better than these morons.
- car chase scene - wtfff what a bs.
- car chase scene - with a shotgun you shoot a car mirror straight off. for real? thats what you aim for? you even are aiming at all?
- car chase scene - one moment its clear, next moment it is snowing.
- wtf is up with the guy his teeth???
- fall through centimeters thick ice without any apparent reason.
- after going through the ice and fully under, no problem - getting back up and back to the hole and through it without much issue even with the thick winter clothes
- wolf attacks a human boy on his own? just like that? right.
- in general all dialogue is just....... really wtf.
... and this is only after just 26 minutes.
The first 30 minutes could be summarized in around 5 minutes max. Quite disappointing story all in all. I enjoyed the book quite a lot, but this movie is hardly worth the tag of "tom clancy". It doesnt reach the level of complexity anywhere, not even close or by a long shot.
Also not a fan of this woke black washing. John Kelly at least is played by someone with a strong appearance. Especially Greer is a weak character and the whole person does not make any sense either. Not as a black woman military commander in the place of an iconic role as Greer. Ok, at least they changed her name to Karen, but still..... nope. Plus illogical to sent such a high ranking person on a special forces mission to a country where they famously dislike colored people.
Overal this movie is a 6 out of 10 max. And that is being very kind.
Predictable and a bit too easy of making CIA the stupid bad guys (which of course is portrayed by a white guy).
The whole plane crash scene makes very little sense and... well.. too many things make little sense.
This movie just seems to lean heavily on being woke and just use the title of a tom clancy book to attract viewers.
The movie is not bad, but Kevin Hart is just terribly annoying. And why does he have to emphasize race? "Why are you asking a black man to steal a police car". What does that have to do with it? Later in the movie "I am boiling that white woman". Why is race at all important?! Stop referencing if its not important. Not everything is about race.
Kevin Hart seems to permanently play the exact same character who just does not stop talking and tries to be funny by just talking too much. Which it is not. Too bad. It is the same as Melissa McCarthy who also can only play 1 single character and is also absolutely never funny with her one-liners.
Could have otherwise been a fun movie if it had a different actor in it.
Woody Harrelson did kill it and is the only thing saving this movie.
Kaley Cucuo her role is so tiny that its hardly worth mentioning.
Story itself is kind dumb and 13 in a dozen. Or perhaps 15 in a dozen. You see the plot "twists" coming 5 miles away.
Anyway. I could smile a few times and it was fine having this movie play while I was reviewing some document for work.
