Not sure it was that. The mutant stuff kept the sci-fi element, albeit in a goofy way. They were just a mixed bag of everything that's been done before but executed much worse. Just a big, messy bag of modern movie s### thrown at the wall in hopes something would stick.
Fallen Kingdom was kind of a dinohorror with an awful plot. World was a pale CG-heavy imitation of the first, and Dominion was hardly even a cohesive film but more of a series of skits revolving through different dino cameos that leaned on nostalgia bait and aggressively squandered the legendary cast of the oridignal with some garbage about locusts.
The previews of this one do reek of its later predecessors unfortunately. Rex scenes look fun, but the sea dinos and egg/nest hunting looks stupid. Dialogue also wasn't encouraging.
I also hate when characters are caricature-y representations of obvious cliches i.e. "neurotic scientist guy" and 'over-confident, indomitable military chick" with absolutely no grey area to create anything interesting about them.
The franchise name is enough to attract a core audience but this one definitely is going to to take a hit unless by some miracle against all odds it's decent.
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