I was so incredibly disappointed with this movie. For me, what I love is seeing a glorious theme park start to unravel and spiral into chaos. Seeing humans terrified and fighting for survival in a wide-open land, where anything could be creeping up or bursting out from any direction.
Aside from the opening action scene on Isla Nublar, everything that followed felt contained, safe, predictable, and low-stakes. Every scene that attempted to be high-stakes and perilous for the heroes ended up feeling lame, due to all the heroes being decked out to the nines in plot armor.
In fact, aside from the opening scene and the bedridden murder, did any good people even die in this movie? The older movies, especially The Lost World, had martyrs that we actually didn't want to see die, making the dinosaurs seem completely unbiased towards the protagonists and antagonists. The lack of a martyr made me feel no emotions whatsoever in this movie.
At this point, for the next movie, I anticipate Maisie will mutate into a dinosaur to save the T-Rex who saves Blue who saves Owen who saves Claire, and the ending will be an aerial pan out with Owen and Claire playing fetch with Blue at their newly constructed home in the middle of nowhere. This is after, of course, they get married with Blue as their ring bearer and/or officiant.
After thoroughly enjoying JW1 for being a stupidly fun thrill ride, I can't express my lack of enthusiasm enough for JW3. I'm over it.
