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Jurassic World
    2015-06-12  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

     《侏罗纪世界》

    Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Jake Johnson

    Director: Colin Trevorrow

    THE dinosaurs might be more advanced in “Jurassic World,” but the people around them certainly aren’t getting any smarter. Although the first Jurassic Park movie in 14 years features plenty of ravenous reptiles, they’re consistently undercut by unimaginative humans both in front of and behind the camera, resulting in a sequel that’s all overkill and very little genuine grandeur or awe.

    The new film continues the storyline begun with Steven Spielberg’s original film from 1993, establishing that the park created on an island off the coast of Coast Rica is now a popular Sea World-like theme park known as Jurassic World. Visiting the island are brothers Gray (Ty Simpkins) and Zach (Nick Robinson), who are being looked after by their workaholic aunt Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), an operations manager too busy running Jurassic World to pay them much attention.

    The brothers soon run into trouble when the park’s scientists (led by a snidely smug BD Wong) develop a hybrid dinosaur they’ve dubbed Indominus Rex that is set to be Jurassic World’s super-sized new attraction — until, that is, it gets loose and begins terrorizing everyone. Desperate to stop this rampaging, frighteningly intelligent menace, Claire turns to Owen (Chris Pratt), a strapping dinosaur trainer who had one unsuccessful date with Claire long ago.

    Directed by Colin Trevorrow, who previously helmed the charming romantic comedy-drama “Safety Not Guaranteed,” “Jurassic World” represents an ambitious leap from the world of indies to the far more treacherous terrain of studio blockbusters. Unable to land on a successful tone — or a collection of integrated tones — Trevorrow shifts awkwardly from gleeful, Indiana Jones-style swashbuckling (accompanied by heavy flirting with the stuffy Claire) to darker and scarier action sequences after Indominus Rex starts to devour the park’s pitiful security guards. It would be a difficult task for any up-and-coming director to match the visual panache and crack suspense of Spielberg, but Trevorrow doesn’t display much affinity for action filmmaking, largely failing to capture the power or wonder of these rampaging lizards and the havoc they unleash.

    But what’s particularly crippling about “Jurassic World” is that Trevorrow and his three fellow co-writers populate the film with stock human characters who barely have more personality than their cunning dinosaur foe. Pratt demonstrated a winningly self-deprecating sense of humour in “Her,” “The Lego Movie” and on the TV series “Parks and Recreation,” and his ascension to movie star with “Guardians of the Galaxy” was especially cheering, suggesting that he could become an A-lister without losing the modest humanity and sweet common touch that were his trademarks. Sadly, his Owen is a somewhat sensitive dullard: Whether he’s establishing a personal connection with one of the dinosaurs or bickering with the uptight Claire, the character isn’t much fun — nor is he compelling or swaggering enough to come across as a magnetic dramatic presence. “Jurassic World” is the first time in Pratt’s recent career where he seems to be playing it safe, leaning heavily on his good looks and chiselled physique to carry a bland role and bolster his blockbuster status.

    Howard does no better as cinema’s umpteenth career-driven woman who eventually learns how to shoot a gun, run around in impossibly high heels and lighten up. As for Simpkins and Robinson, they too are types: Younger brother Gray conveys nothing other than wide-eyed excitement while Zach is self-consciously cool to the nth degree. To be fair, the “Jurassic” series has often given us annoying kids whose main function is to stumble blindly into danger and then get scared, but Gray and Zach are exceptionally irksome because they’re so generic and dim-witted.

    But Trevorrow doesn’t stop there, making everyone from the park’s bizarre proprietor (Irrfan Khan) to a fiendish corporate goon (Vincent D’Onofrio) laughably one-dimensional, their idiotic behavior mostly an excuse to push the narrative along. The cardboard characters would lead one to think that “Jurassic World” is geared more to younger viewers who don’t require sophisticated protagonists when the dinosaurs are the real stars.

    The movie is now being screened in Shenzhen.

    (SD-Agencies)

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