That new backstory invites in surely the strangest plot twist in Fallen Kingdom, which I won’t spoil here. Of course he’s mandated to enlarge the purview of the film-or, really, of the franchise-by the end, but for a while there he gets to play around on his own terms. But these are proportions that Bayona knows how to work in, and from them he crafts something clever and goofy and jumpy. It’s an unexpected reduction in scale and commitment to specificity, not what we often see in follows-up to smash hits. Bayona revisits some aesthetics and moods from his lauded 2007 horror film The Orphanage by turning Fallen Kingdom into something of a spooky mansion movie, rainy and atmospheric and full of creeping shadows. While the first half of the film is a petty perfunctory rehash of 1997’s The Lost World, with poachers rounding up dinosaurs for profit and a little bit of sport, the second half of Fallen Kingdom does something nifty. Having Bayona behind the wheel, rather than Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow (who has a writing credit on this one), helps on that front as well. But at least Fallen Kingdom considers the idea of letting go, making it a more thoughtful and interesting film than its immediate predecessor. Universal Pictures is having none of that, of course, not after 2015’s Jurassic World made a gazillion dollars, re-invigorating a moribund series. Bayona’s film-whether it may finally be time to let these majestic, dangerous animals, coaxed back into the world by visionary, incautious humans, recede once more into history, where they almost assuredly belong. That’s an intriguing philosophical-biological question posed by J.A.
Won’t someone just let these poor creatures live-or, perhaps more reasonably, let them peacefully go extinct again? A few dinosaurs make it off the island too, though they’re headed nowhere good, off to be sold and weaponized by various sinister figures. And indeed, about halfway through this fifth installment of the now 25-year-old film franchise, the park-and the whole accursed Isla Nublar-is wiped out, consumed by volcanic fire that, somehow, our heroes are able to outrun. “The park is gone,” the posters for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom bluntly read.
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