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The acting felt subpar, even for the A-listers like Scarlett Johansson. The chemistry just wasn't there, and the dynamics felt super forced.
The special effects were good, but that's to be expected for a JP movie 30 years after the original.
The mercenaries were hilariously incompetent, with half of them dying before they even reach the island. For some bizarre reason, they only pack one gun, and the guy with the one gun, immediately dies. The guy who's whole job is piloting the boat, crashes the boat immediately. And Scarlett Johansson's character, who is supposed to be this badass Spec Ops (as a woman?) mercenary, lectures the scientist guy about being a better shot, then minutes later shoots randomly into the water with their super precious sample dart because some water splashed her in the face.
Then they crash, lose all of their gear, another useless mercenary dies, and somehow this Mexican family that showed up is more competent than the trained mercs.
Also the le evil bad corpo man "lets" the Mexican family's teenage daughter fall off the side of the boat, but somehow despite no one knowing this, all of the mercs are super suspicious of le evil bad corpo man and threaten to leave him on the island.
The whole movie is just contrivances, bad acting, plot armor, and laughably inept characters.
And they don't even have the good graces to utilize this big bad mutant dino they hype up at the beginning - the "D-Rex" is shown for 2 seconds at the beginning, then about 2 minutes of total screentime at the very end, where it only manages to kill the le evil bad corpo man (of course), and not even the black merc guy who the movie makes a super big deal about him sacrificing himself so they can get away...but then turns out he's completely fine somehow.
2/5 - If you've got $11 to waste, and nothing to do for 2 hours