Film Review – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

2015’s “Jurassic World” didn’t come from out of nowhere, but its box office success took most by surprise. It became a phenomenon during the summer moviegoing season, hitting screens at precisely the moment the public wanted to see large-scale dinosaur action at the multiplex. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” is the sequel, actually the fifth installment of the “Jurassic Park” franchise, which has kept chugging along for 25 years despite limited directions for the story to take. This time, however, the dinos are in great danger, and while screenwriters Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow (who helmed “Jurassic World”) have some difficultly squeezing originality out of the picture, they have a fertile imagination for creature feature mayhem, giving “Fallen Kingdom” plenty of things to stomp and chomp as director J.A. Bayona (“A Monster Calls,” “The Impossible”) crafts perhaps the most stylish and tonally daring chapter of the enduring series.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com