NotYourAverageBear

I was really looking forward to this. Pretty disappointed overall. There are some bright spots. The cinematography is absolutely beautiful. Well filmed. The dinosaurs are, for the most part, excellently done. Acting is overall well done, especially by Audrina Miranda and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.

I say overall because you just want a dinosaur to eat Luna Blaise already. Maybe it's a terrible script and she did the best she could with it, but it was cringy when she came onscreen. Scarlett Johanssen is a good actress, but not sure this character was the right fit for her. Not believable as the security specialist. At least go to the gym and buff up for the part. And use a different toothpaste - teeth are so bleached out that it was distracting whenever she smiled.

The biggest problem with the movie is the script. It's wholly predictable and without any meat. The movie consists of "Let's run away before we get eaten." That's it. For two hours. You know immediately which minor character will be eaten in each scene. But you don't really care since the characters themselves are shallow. Certainly nothing to root for any particular person, with the exception of Johnathan Bailey. He's put in danger so often, though, that it gets old quickly. We didn't need his little "climate change" lecture stuck in the middle of the film, though.

Most of the dinosaurs, while unbelievable, were well done. The final dinosaur, though, looks to have been borrowed off an Alien set.

It wasn't really enjoyable. Waste of time overall. I gave it 4 stars - one each for Miranda and Garcia-Rulfo, one for the scenery, and one for the dinosaurs. And I think I'm being very generous.

Got this from Recommendations. Wow. I thought it was going to be a typical weekly put-your-brain-in-neutral show. It's not. The writing is superb.

"There are no small parts, only small actors." Definitely true here. You're invested in every single character. They're all flawed heroes, but the flaws are mostly ones that most people can relate to. No throwaways. Each character is fleshed out and you care about all of them. Yes, there are lead characters, but the show is not written to be heavily about them. Every character counts here.

Wonderful to NOT see it be the tired "white supremecist" tripe, er trope, as the villains, but seeing the true underworld. It's so well-written and acted that you actually can see the motivations and struggles of the BAD guys.

Really impressed.

The only thing keeping this from being a 10 is the music. It's not about taste (though it's not mine); it's about volume. You know when you're watching something and a super loud commercial comes on and disturbs your mood? It's like that. Had me reaching for the remote every time. Other than that, one of the very best series I've watched in a long time.

I kept waiting for this movie to get better; it never did. It's marketed as a comedy, but not even Carrell could make this funny.

The dialogue is ridiculous if you're older than 25. Wealthy, prominent men do not drop the F bomb in every other sentence. They also speak proper English - would not have gotten to where they were if they didn't.

You have four really good actors and can't come up with a decent plot? Not even decent dialogue?

This is a complete waste of your time. Tons of anticipation that it MUST get better, right? Wrong. It doesn't deliver anything other than boredom and annoyance.