Twenty-two years and two days after the release of “Jurassic Park,” “Jurassic World” made its public debut.

In “Jurassic Park,” scieintists are able to create life size dinasours from the DNA of a mosquito found caught in amber from the jurassic era. Naturally, things went wrong; but the franchise was able to produce three movies, all taking place on the island Isla Nublar where they placed the animals.         I went to watch this movie with high hopes and spirits, but left the theater with a bad taste in my mouth, and not from the concessions.

The main premise of the film is that a fully-functioning  theme park which offers live dinosaurs as an attraction, is open for business, but after a decade, tourist attendance is beginning to decline. It seems ordinary dinosaurs are no longer impressive enough to draw crowds. 

This leads the scientists of the theme park to engineer a bigger, better attraction. They succeed in creating a creature spliced together through the DNA of a T-Rex, cuttlefish, tree frog and some “top-secret” DNA, later revealed as velociraptor. The creation is named the Indominus Rex.

The movie failed to garner much interest from me due to an overabundance of predictable plot points, failed attempts at explanations, a climax that was, for me, seen coming a mile away and a wasted use of talented actors. 

The worst of these issues came in halfway through the movie. The beginning builds sympathy for the dinosaurs by examining the way human exploit them for monetary profit, but then all of a sudden, a new subplot enters the scene and it feels like you’ve been thrown into a military movie, where the possibility of dinosaurs being used as military weaponry becomes a thing.

To make matters worse, the one character that makes you feel the most sympathy towards the dinosaurs, Owen Grady played by Chris Pratt, has his hand forced by the military to release a pack of deadly velociraptors with the hopes of hunting down the Indominus Rex. Once the hunt begins, the audience should be asking, “What could possibly go wrong?” And indeed, things do go wrong and the solution to the problem is as predictable as can be.

I was able to look at the person next to me and say what was about to happen. I was demoralized by how the audience clapped at such a predictable climax. 

I did take solace in the many references to the original “Jurassic Park.” From the dropping of John Hammond’s name to the original park gates, I enjoyed the accidental tour by two brothers through the closed park over the action of the open world. 

All in all, I hope that the obvious ending for a sequel is ignored because all I got out of leaving “Jurassic World” is to not let the military have dinosaurs.