After an initial "meh" at the thought of this movie, it became one of my most highly anticipated films of this year. I was disappointed, mostly because I allowed myself to get my hopes higher than I should have. The trailers did an excellent job of getting my hopes up, but it did not take too long for those hopes to start crashing down.
I don't expect a movie like this to be too realistic, but there were some factual inconsistencies and unrealistic moments, even for a movie about reanimated dinosaurs, that kept knocking me out of the moment. The pterosaurs, which were fish eaters, causing havoc after being newly freed bothered me for some reason, probably more than it should have, but at that point, I was already at the point where I was just "ah, come on, really!" at the level of camp.
The characters, another divorce story like part 3, with kids you don't care about, were almost as bad as Ian Malcom's daughter in part 2. Using the raptors to hunt the engineered dinosaur seemed overly silly, all things considered.
But the mosasaur was really cool, but I have no idea how they would have gotten the dna for a marine reptile, but I enjoyed the seaworld like atmosphere of that one. Was shaking my head about having a low railing over its enclosure.
Back to the engineered dinosaur, it just seemed so thrown together to try and make the thing as scary as possible at the expense of common sense when they could have gone with actual dinosaurs, like giganotasaurus or maybe some carnatosaurs or cerratosauruses. The latter two, while not as big as a t-rex, were pretty nasty creatures.
I would love to see some animals from the Pleistocene epoch(see my thread on those animals) which would be a way to introduce some truly nasty real life monsters if they really want to get away from the t rex and raptors.
http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f48/lions-tiger-short-faced-bears-oh-my-2666045/
