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If you've ever wondered what would happen if cutting-edge dinosaur chasing equipment was put in the hands of people who can't work a coffee machine, this film has your answer. In this high-tech dino-chase spectacle, humans go for "humanitarian" reasons after the most gigantic of the resurrected prehistoric predators in a boat inadequate to chase the proverbial shark (you're gonna need a bigger boat). Unfortunately, their IQs seem proportional to size of their boat. The dinosaurs, meanwhile, display a sense of strategy and common sense that makes the human cast look like slapstick extras. The female head of the expedition-whose every decision seems to be the exact wrong one-leads the team into one disaster after another, until the inevitable role reversal: the hunters become the hunted. It's equal parts thrilling, frustrating, and unintentionally hilarious, like watching a nature documentary narrated by a stand-up comic who's given up on humanity.

Another instalment of absurd dystopian post-apocalyptic circumstances, handicapped predators and idiotic human persistence to ridiculous survival methods.

Like in similar recent cinematic experiments, no explanation is given or can be deduced as to how humanity came to succumb to a ridiculously feeble enemy. Perhaps the threat would be credible if the movie was set in a prehistoric period. However, in the nameless era of the movie, a couple of kids seem to be doing fine with the fewest and simplest of means, which, once again, seem too meagre compared with other obviously modern relics at their disposal.

The bottom line is that, whether you have an acclaimed actress such as Emily Blunt or a washed-up actor such as Nick Cage, the result cannot be better than the ridiculous premise of the entire movie.

Probably better than "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness", which is by no means a great feat. A plethora of "cinephile" references do not achieve much in strengthening a very weak (and exceedingly naive) story. And it would be too much to call the performances great.