My "fan" complaint is why the lack of animatronic Rex? The company that works with them on the JPs still had her in their warehouse, yet she appeared to be computer animated in her scenes (although yeah you can't make that kind of scene with animatronics). I wish we got some old school Rexy thrown in over the course of the movie. The robot just looks so damn great and real.
I thought all the characters/actors were good (Jake Johnson was hilariously awesome), except Vincent D'Onofrio. I got the whole military use thing, but I didn't buy his personal motivations..yet he was being persistently annoying from the second he came on. It's like he was just there to be "that" guy, and had no character development. Dennis Nedry was an underpaid and greedy computer wiz, and wanted to cash in big. And he had the access to the embryos, so his story makes sense. Roland from TLW was this big game hunter that wanted a chance to hunt the greatest predator of all, and you bought his camaraderie with the other guys and motivation. This guy was just a loudmouth without any actual backstory..seemed lazy.
I hope they get Gareth Edwards, who did the recent Godzilla, for the next sequel. Trevorrow did admirably, but I think he borrowed too much from Speilberg, which came off as a pale imitation. Still, it was fun.
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