Jurassic World is the movie that Jurassic Park fans have been waiting over two decades for. Over the past week, I’ve been reviewing the original trilogy of films and although the first two sequels (The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III) were strong enough to merit recommendations, neither of them came close to matching the excitement of the original.
Jurassic World does.
This third sequel both steps away from the trilogy’s narrative—the second island isn’t mentioned at all—while embracing the concept of the original. It opens decades after the events of Jurassic Park transpired and years after the successful launch of Jurassic World, the dinosaur-centric amusement park that John Hammond dreamed of building. (The park is located on the same island...