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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Best Jurassic Park series movie since the first! A few problems however...
SPOILER: I had my suspicions after the first movie that this wouldn't be that good. The first Jurassic world left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth as it had annoying characters, and stupid sub-plots like "the parents getting a divorce" that nobody cared about.
But I was totally wrong! This film revisits the island isla nublar, a team sent by Eli to gather DNA from the indominus Rex extracts the bone and after a couple casualties succeed in escaping with it. there is a now active volcano close to eruption killing all life on that island. The government decides not to intervene with the "extinction" of dinosaurs (I use quotation marks for a reason I'll explain later) with the help of dr. Ian malcom stating dinosaurs should be killed off, and that this was the correction for their creation.
Claire dearing is running a group to save the dinosaurs, and after she's called by mr. Lockwood who's put together a crew to save the dinosaurs that he and Hammond were co creating, she agrees to help by going on the island for her high rank access, and to get Owen Grady who left Claire since she didn't want to live in a trailer while he built a cabin, to save blue he agrees to come along to track, and capture blue relocating her.
When they get to the island they have a short time to extract a couple dozen dinosaurs from the island, when Owen gets through to blue they are betrayed by the gunmen, blue is shot and wounded when a foolish gunner shoots her out of fear, Owen is tranqed and left for dead, Claire and a friend is also locked in a control room with a baryonx hunting them they barely escape and regroup with Owen after coming to and running from lava, they all survive and manage to escape on the boat before it departs.
Afterwards we learn that mr. Lockwood was betrayed by Eli who wants to sell the dinosaurs to further support his indoraptor project which will fully follow their orders using a special laser dot sight.
Once they return they reach their destination they realize it's not a second island for the dinosaurs to inhabit but it's the Lockwood mansion, Eli and dr. Wu have been creating the indoraptor using indominus Rex DNA but they need blue's Raptor DNA
Owen and Claire are found and captured and Eli being the villain tells them his evil plan.. cus... yeah... and they have a dinosaur in their next cell break them out.
They find a little girl that's lockwoods "granddaughter" (she's actually a clone of his daughter who deceased in a car accident) and they spy on a dinosaur auctioning, they show off the indoraptor and it's abolites and they decide to sell it, dr. Wu is outraged because he knows someone else will steal their Concept.
Owen let's a pachysephlosaurs on the loose which destroys the whole room, when the room is clear the game hunter enters and finds the indoraptor in its cage, he shoots it with tranquilizers and it plays like it's knocked out, he tries pulling its tooth out for a collectible, but it bites into his arm ripping it off, he's mauled to death and the auctioneer tries to escape in an elevator while its distracted, the door closes before it can get in, but it as it turns around it's tail breaks the control panel and the door opens where he feasts on some auctionees.
The indoraptor is now on the loose and starts hunting people, Owen, Claire and the girl are running in the dark when it finds them and digs into Claire's leg with its raptor claw, it focuses on the girl and starts hunting her, she hides in her room and it goes to the roof, scaling the side of the building it unlocks the balcony door and is about to have a tasty treat when blue and Owen enter and fight her off, they manage to get outside and are on the roof, the indoraptor is about to finish them when Claire uses its laser gun to make it go after Owen where he evades it and it nearly falls down on the triceratops horns below, it tries to pull up but blue Knocks it down and finishes it.
Dr. Wu is trying to gather the dinosaurs and his research when Claire's dinosaur enthusiasts knock him out, and his guards drag him off (setting up another movie) during all this there's an explosion that starts pumping gas into the dinosaurs area, if they'd don't free them they'll all die from gas. Claire makes the decision not to release them. But the girl lets them loose and the government lets them... stay on the loose relocating some to deserts, etc.? Hmm okay?? And then Eli gets torn in half by the trex on the loose while he's trying to escape in his car with the indominus bone.
The end.
It's a good movie that's a lot different than the other films in its series, now here's some of my major plot holes and issues with it...
1) The island Isla Nublar is about to be toasted killing the dinosaurs yes, but this will not cause extinction on their race... remember Jurassic Park 2&3? Yeah we'll both those movies were set on Isla SORNA the second island, with hundreds of dinosaurs... so... are Jurassic Park 2&3 non-canon now and there is no second island? Or did they kill all of the dinosaurs there or what...
2) The intense scene with the indoraptor hunting Owen, Claire, and the girl is almost completely ruined when Owen decides "turning out all the lights will make us invisible to it" the sad thing is that it actually works, until the lights come back on, they're behind glass in the dark and the indoraptor can't 1. See them using thermal tracking? 2. Sense them with enhanced smell 3. Use common night vision almost all predators have? Cmon guys this was a major mistake...
3) the government condones and actually helps relocate the Trex, Blue, and some other dinos to the desert, and in the end blue stares upon a neighbor hood... while dr. Malcom states that it's a new age with dinosaurs and humans and they'll have to adapt... I'm sorry but there's no way the government would release deadly carnivores like raptors and Trexs upon innocent people for them to destroy homes and eat them that's some serious problem.
There were lots of mistakes, and little details that I noticed were wrong but besides those 3 major things nothing really bothered me. Go see the movie, if you enjoyed the first Jurassic world, Jurassic Park, and if you liked 2&3 then you'll for sure love this one. I'd rate it a 9/10 for the creativity in this series but I feel like the plot holes and problems with it really bring this movie down. I mean how do you completely forget about things like a second island, and nightvision/thermal vision/super scent in a movie. Oh one thing I will give props to about this movie is that it is definitely the most intense. So much action and yet a good story. 8/10 is a fair rating.
Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)
One of the best PlayStation exclusive games I've played.
I've had high hopes for this game since the very first time I saw the trailer. And I must say the game did not disappoint.
In the mid 2060's a rich, businessman called "Ted Faro" created a swarm of "Peacekeeping" machines meant to protect the world from wars, however the code was corrupted and the swarm began destroying everything, they learned how to replicate themselves by feeding off of Living Biomatter, In a little over a year the entire world will be completely destroyed, just a floating rock in space. But in a last attempt to save the earth A brave Woman named "Elizabet Sobeck" creates The most advanced AI "Mother Nature" AKA "GUIA" all but 2 machines you discover are created by "GUIA" to re-construct the world and bring its vast plants, animals, and water back, over hundreds of years, and when it's balanced humans would be released into the new, fresh world with the knowledge of their old ancestors Via a program of "GUIA", after around 12-13 months a breach in a vent was going to call the "Swarm" to the base of the creators of "GUIA" Elizabet Sobeck decided to take things into her own hands and repairs the breach before the swarm can destroy "GUIA" and the remaining human survivors. However, "Ted Faro" destroyed the program that would teach future humans about the past and killed the remaining humans living on the doomed planet hoping that humans in the future would never repeat his mistakes. Thousands of years later, One of the primary functions of "GUIA" called "HADES" took over and destroyed "GUIA". in a final, desperate attempt to save the humans and the world "GUIA" created a genetic clone of her creator, Elizabet Sobeck, called Aloy. Aloy was created to stop "HADES" from calling The swarm from hibernation to destroy the world all over again, after succeeding in destroying HADES, Aloy finds the remains of Elizabet Sobeck and learns all she can about her ancestor. Thus ending the game's Story.
I thoroughly enjoyed this game, and its beautiful scenery and I am far from done with discovering and completing the game's collectibles. This game is definitely worth purchasing and I look forward to a sequel game. Overall I had no issues in performance and found the game very smooth. If your looking for a good game to blow a week or 2 exploring and having a blast this is definitely your game!