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FYI, a "7" rating from me is pretty good.

The #1 thing holding this one back is the abysmal start. God was it forced. The dialogue was corny and just bad. I mean I HATED Scarlett Johansson's character! And the others for that matter. But I was at the theater with family so I stuck it out. It got tremendously better, and I ended up loving Johansson's part.

It seems to me that they filmed this movie, worked hard on it, then went back in the last few minutes and just threw together the start of the film. It was that bad. I mean the whole introduction is 1 Star bad. So you're going to have to suck it up and endure it. Then the dialogue picks up, the characters flourish, the acting soars to high levels with some great scenes.

This movie has the same tropes as the others, but that's to be expected. It's another "Jurassic" movie, so you're gonna have a fam, some kids, a cutesy little dino. Again, the start of the family introduction was ham fisted and lame, but I came to really enjoy the actors as the movie progressed. So again, wait it out. The family did really well within the frame of the overall movie.

As for the ending, the action gets crazy, as expected. No spoilers, so you're gonna have to watch. But I appreciated the resolution at the end. This movie started awful, got great, and resolved at the end. So I give 7 stars, though it could probably an 8 for me - GO BACK AND REWORK THE BEGINNING!

First and foremost, thank god I did not pay for this movie. I saw it again and again coming up in my suggestions but I held out. It came on Paramount+ and I finally gave it a try. Dark. Dark. Dark. And it was dark. Blackness, dark brownness, and lots of dark, dark, darkness. I turned off all the lights in the room hoping that would help - it didn't. I turned the brightness all the way upon on my TV - it didn't help. I simply became too tired of straining to see what was going on. I quit.

Okay, so now we know why so very few directors attempt this sort of filming. Filming in the dark. It doesn't work. The viewer just strains and strains and it ruins the entire thing. I can understand moments of darkness. That is not what I am talking about here. It is dark - forever. Even out in the daylight it is dark and brown and dim and not very well lit. Brown and colorless. For as long as I was able to stand it.

So here you go. A movie about darkness and muddy brown hues. On a high end 4K TV it looks terrible. Or well it doesn't look at all. It would've looked better on an old CRT television from the 1970s, at least you wouldn't have noticed how much you couldn't notice anything. To say I am disappointed is a understatement. Yet I am glad I didn't pay for my disappointment.

I'm really, really, really getting to the point where I NEVER pay to see movies. There's always some sort of stupid, glaring mistake somewhere. So I go back and forth with the various streaming options and end up watching favorite movies from long ago. Not that they are necessarily any better, they're merely familiar. Voyage of Demeter is one best left unwatched, and please for the love of your hard earned money - do not pay to watch!

Absolutely and without a doubt the silliest movie ever made. It tries to be a black comedy (I guess?) but just ends up being embarrassing. On the one hand it tries to be serious, on the other it has the most ridiculous and childish dialogues. And every scene there is some sort of sickening joke that makes a person wanna vomit. And I don't mean sickening as in gross. Sickening as in very, very poorly done. Here you will find no clever comedy. It's just in-your-face junior high level junk. And Liam cannot - will not - save this. I no longer have any respect for Liam whatsoever. Every time I see him I just groan and shake my head. He has long gone to the dogs, and this movie just keeps him there. This is just another in a massive trash heap of movies being released. I think the industry is quietly doing this to make people hate movies. There really is no other explanation.

BOTTOM LINE: Not cute. Not clever. Not funny. Not entertaining. It is nauseating, boring, over the top, under the top, scraping the bottom. Want to groan and rage quit a movie? THIS IS FOR YOU!