Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Jurassic World: Dominion (2022 review)

3 outta 5 The sixth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise goes full bore into nostalgia deep cut mining attempting to stir up some emotion. The park has been abandoned for dinosaurs romping around the world, until the last half of the movie is set at a secluded dinosaur preserve. Ultimately, Jurassic World: Dominion delivers…
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (’18 review)

3 outta 5 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom manages to do something slightly, not a lot, different with the Jurassic Park formula. It’s definitely missing the excellence of the original Steven Spielberg directed Jurassic Park. It doesn’t have the compelling hook that the previous film, Jurassic World, had with the collapse of fully functional dinosaur park. …
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Jurassic World (2015 review)

4 outta 5 As the fourth instalment in the series, Jurassic World does a different thematic take on Jurassic Park: the first is a classic horror movie, Lost World is a riff on King Kong, and Jurassic Park III is B-movie cheese. With World, there’s a subversive theme of commercialization creeping into the dinosaur world…