Jurassic Park not only ushered in a new era of filmmaking, it ushered in a new way we saw special effects in cinema.

Stan Winston with his animatronic dinos were something no person had ever seen on the big screen, paving a new way as to how we saw creatures on the big screen.

Gone were the days of the stop motion era, from Jason and The Argonauts to Clash Of The Titans, the Harryhausen era was over and animatronic creatures were in, believe it or not but Spielberg cited Harryhausen as one of his inspirations.

The first Jurassic Park which was released way back in 1993 was groundbreaking, it paved a new way for how we saw creatures and monsters, as I said before gone was the stop motion era.

The film was released to widespread critical acclaim, the Rotten Tomatoes consensus states “Jurassic Park is a spectacle of special effects and life-like animatronics, with some of Spielberg’s best sequences of sustained awe and sheer terror since Jaws”

It was so popular with audiences and critics that it spawned a sequel titled The Lost World, albeit it wasn’t well received, the consensus on Rotten Tomatoes states “The Lost World demonstrates how far CG effects have come in the four years since Jurassic Park; unfortunately, it also proves how difficult it can be to put together a truly compelling sequel” it earned a 53 percent rating by critics.

The film is… dare I say it but, okay.

It’s silly, granted, but where else are you going to see a T. rex rampage through San Diego.

The third instalment was… yeah let’s not dive in to that one, granted I enjoyed it as a kid but now I just think it’s stupid.

After years of waiting we finally got a new look at Jurassic World, and what a movie that was… I reviewed it years back when it first came out, I enjoyed every minute of it.

Then we got Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom… I can’t even begin to explain how poor this movie was, with the whole cloning the little girl to the auction, yeah I really hated this one.

Now the third instalment, going by the consensus on this one it’s bad “Jurassic World Dominion might be a bit of an improvement over its immediate predecessors in some respects, but this franchise has lumbered a long way down from its classic start”

This now brings me on to the whole point of this post, and that is… is this franchise dying, should it just die and become a prehistoric fossil.

Jurassic World was a step in the right direction, Hammonds dream had been made, and people were flocking to the park in their dozens.

In my honest opinion it should have ended there.

The rise and fall of Hammond’s vision would have worked wonders as a one off movie rather than three.

Understandably they wanted to make sequels but the way Jurassic World ended they didn’t warrant the need for any sequels to be made.

Dominion was so misleading with marketing, they released a prologue, a T. rex rampaging through a drive in cinema, it’s not even in the film.

The trailer made it look amazing, dinosaurs on the loose in various cities across the world, but instead we got a mission impossible type movie.

It’s certainly not the best entry that much is true, it was however great seeing Laura Dern and Sam Neill back.

Sadly it does fall flat, and it’s definitely one of if not the worst in the Jurassic Park series.

In my honest opinion it does need to die, this last one has perfectly shown that, it needs to become a prehistoric fossil, especially after this one.

As always guys catch ya later 🙂