I don’t care about the box office figures, this film should have been better. The first half was strong and set itself up to be a solid film, but the second half loses its way and reseeds into stupidity, with too much stuff and loud nonsense and not enough substance. It ignores what the original film stood for, and most infuriatingly the disgusting gender politics of film make it unforgivable.
To amend the words of Dr. Ian Malcolm: the filmmakers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Adam Lester. 