Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K UHD (2018)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Lord Method Man

That's part of why it was good. It didn't need to have a cut-and-dry villain.

Though in the book Hammond was much more antagonistic.

Bingo, that's something that I love about JP, that there ISN'T some stock villain doing their thing and driving the story along, instead it's this lardy buffoon who wants to make a buck or two. And even then, Wayne Knight manages to imbue the character with a certain greasy charm that raises him above a cardboard cut-out and the same goes for everyone else in the film, either thru the script or the performances. The nearest thing to an antagonist that actually faces up to the characters are the dinos themselves and that's why JP still feels so fresh to me.

BTW no-one said that Arliss Howard in Lost World wasn't the textbook definition of a vapid villain but, as I explained before, the movie doesn't compound this by then making Pete Postlethwaite a caricature of the great white hunter (even though it tried!) as he's absolutely fantastic in the film and raises the character well above stock villainy. Compare him to Buffalo Bill in FK, the difference is astronomical. Again: the issue is not about these characters having the same motivations on paper, it's about how those motivations are conveyed on-screen and FK sketches all of its characters so thinly I'm surprised they don't disappear when they turn sideways.