It felt so good that dinosaurs - after the increasingly silly movies of the last 20 years which ridiculed and humiliated them - are restored to what they were in the first Jurassic Park: the brutal and scary rulers of their world. Apart from that, I want to praise the makers not for what they did, but what they didn't do.
First, the movie is 90 minutes long. They have a simple story to tell: two people get stranded on this hostile planet, and need to survive. Thankfully that simplicity was not stretched to epic 120 minute length, thus the tension is kept high, with only few flaws in between.
Second, the typical horror stereotypes are avoided, you know the kind of flicks where you have maybe six survivors and then they are killed one by one, usually you can predict who is next. No waste of superfluous characters here.
Third, they always warn actors not to play along a child co-star, because either she steals all the attention from you, or she is annoying and ruins the movie. But neither has happened here, the action is well balanced and gives Adam Driver enough opportunity to shine. The back story about his daughter also explains why he feels so protective.
Agreed, the movie has its weaknesses too, and you wonder why the two haven't been killed at least 5 times, but altogether it was very entertaining.
First, the movie is 90 minutes long. They have a simple story to tell: two people get stranded on this hostile planet, and need to survive. Thankfully that simplicity was not stretched to epic 120 minute length, thus the tension is kept high, with only few flaws in between.
Second, the typical horror stereotypes are avoided, you know the kind of flicks where you have maybe six survivors and then they are killed one by one, usually you can predict who is next. No waste of superfluous characters here.
Third, they always warn actors not to play along a child co-star, because either she steals all the attention from you, or she is annoying and ruins the movie. But neither has happened here, the action is well balanced and gives Adam Driver enough opportunity to shine. The back story about his daughter also explains why he feels so protective.
Agreed, the movie has its weaknesses too, and you wonder why the two haven't been killed at least 5 times, but altogether it was very entertaining.