Female Film Critics 24/375
Early in Jurassic World Rebirth, a brontosaurus lies tangled in light poles near the Brooklyn Bridge while New Yorkers wind past it like just another wreck in the roadway. That’s the problem with this film in a nutshell. The seventh film in this long-running franchise has no sense of wonder anymore about these phenomenal creatures, just a feeling that no one knows what to do with them.
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In Jurassic World: Rebirth, those darn, genetically altered dinosaurs just keep terrorizing the Delgado family, unwittingly having sailed into the hazardous equatorial zone, and the money-hungry Parker Genix team purposefully there to extract genetic blood samples from one aquatic, one aerial, and one terrestrial specimen. The researchers’ purportedly magnanimous, actually money-driven, goal is DNA information needed to formulate a life-saving heart medicine that will save millions of lives while making the Genix company and their representatives enormously wealthy.
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It’s been five years since “Jurassic: World Dominion,” so many of the once-extinct dinosaurs that were let loose around the world have died off, unable to survive in the hostile environment caused by climate change. This seventh Jurassic installment revolves around the perilous quest to extract DNA testers from the aquatic Mosasaurus, herbivorous Titanosaurus, and flying Quetzalcoatus – while cinematographer John Mathieson duly chronicles the various participants’ adventures.
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Gareth Edwards’ The Creator, is a mixed bag. It’s a visually stunning, intriguing tale with echoes of the Vietnam War and science-fiction classics such as 1982’s Blade Runner. Yet in crafting a world where artificial intelligence—and simulated people—have branched into every aspect of life, the film leaves little room for nuance. In a nutshell, most humans in The Creator are bad, and the good robots just want to live in peace.
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British filmmaker Gareth Edwards’ ambitious The Creator abounds with extraordinary visuals, utilizing the very best technology available today – which is why it’s a shame that he neglects to supply an intriguing plot to support his timely spectacle. It’s all about Hollywood’s current obsession with artificial intelligence, exploring AI’s utopian and dystopian possibilities.
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