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This is basically a lesser version of Jurassic Park 3. If you didn't like that one, don't even bother with this one.

There's nothing to see here. Quite literally. The characters are bland, their fetch quest mission is boring. The story had in fact so little to offer that they had to throw in a lame family story in the mix. You can immediately tell who's gonna make it and who isn't. Storywise this is as low effort as it gets. I could have lived with that, if the dinosaur setpieces were at least convincing. And they are the most disappointing part, I'm not even complaining that they look too fake. I'd say the visual FX are 50/50 here. But they simply aren't exciting. They lack energy, suspense and chaos, a'd worst of all they lack a climax. All of them fizzle out without one memorable bit, or a smart move by our protagonists. They lack a climax, even on the last one, it's frustrating. The dinosaurs are conveniently slow when it comes to hunting humans. There's a reason the raptors have only a cameo, if they would be the main antagonists, none of our characters would make it out alive, because it requires good writing or being good at gymnastics to survive those. Also, most dinosaurs seemed to have been genetically paired with ninjas: Because no matter if the dinosaur is as big as a building, our main cast will only notice them when they're 2 feet in front of their face. Seriously there are at least 5 reveal shots that only work because the camera is not looking in a certain direction, but the character in the film would be most likely noticed it in an instant. The whole movie is built on those weak setups that are unbelievable and only work because of the stupidity of the characters (ergo the writer).

To call the final showdown underwhelming is an understatement. How Universal can greenlight a script with a 250million dollar budget, but which is so paperthin that it's practically invisible, THAT is the only miracle this movie has to offer.

I tried to give this movie a fair chance. And the first ten minutes didn't disappoint: well-edited, well-executed and directed. The minor illogical details didn't bother me when you start with such a bang.

Unfortunately this is where the movie stops being interesting because it suffers from sequilitis. In other words, it's just warmed up coffee with plenty callbacks to the previous movie. From this moment on, no character will do a rational decision anymore. To be fair I prefer the cinematic look of WEEKS over the DV footage quality from 28DAYS, but when we go down to the meat and potatoes: Days has better characters, better moments, a better tone creating a great balance between beauty and nihilism. The violence never felt gratuitous in the first movie, here it feels different. You can tell the director and the writers can only offer shock value instead of suspense or drama.

Unlike 28Days, this movie has nothing to say, except for : "Don't have kids, people. They'll ruin everything."