A Joe Viglione Look Into Things Jurassic
11 Years After Scarlett Johansson’s Science Fiction Blockbuster Lucy, the star delivers on this David Koepp written Journey Into the Depths
The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
Theme from Gilligan’s Island
The 7th in the Jurassic World films, Scarlett Johansson takes control of this really innovative David Koepp-penned film. The franchise continues to earn billions of dollars and this entry will add to the gold and platinum. Jonathan Bailey played Fiyero in Wicked and has a most interesting character here as Dr Henry Loomis, leaving behind former Jurassic Park actor Jeff Goldblum to all things Wicked.
Johansson does not look like her Lucy role from 11 years back, another sci-fi blockbuster, and her pairing with homosexual-in-real-life actor Bailey kind of makes them the Doris Day/Rock Hudson of this era. Neither does Bailey look like his creation in Wicked. The acting is most fluid and Director Gareth James Edwards (who turns 50 on Jo Jo Laine’s birthday, July 13) will have a birthday surprise of more than a billion dollars to his brilliant catalogue of science fiction films Godzilla (2014), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), The Creator (2023)
The Matrix truly capitalized on taking elements from old movies and recycling them. Writer Koepp and Director Edwards do not go that far, but Steven Spielberg – Executive Producer – is celebrating Jaws, originally released on June 20, 1975, and the jaws are chomping all over this epic. It is hardly a coincidence.
There are some minor lulls in the picture, very minor, and perhaps put there to make the thrills and spills all the more film-viewing fun, what stands out, though, is after all these sequels, the film brilliantly stays away from the old and gives something pretty new (*despite the comments above,) fresh for the series and, as always, exciting.
Read Joe’s Substack here: https://joeviglione.substack.com/p/jurassic-world-rebirth
