Jurassic World: So, Apparently, It's Good

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It was enjoyable even as someone who wasn't really a fan of the first one. It has a lot of really dumb moments, but it moves fast enough that you can ignore them and just enjoy the ride.

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Entering the I Rex's cage though? That's #140 on the Evil Overlord List for crying out loud! You do not go into the prisoner's cell just because he doesn't seem to be in there anymore! And going in there just to touch some claw marks? Really?

Not to mention the lack of any defense in depth against dinosaur escapes ('He's out of this one cage! He could be anywhere!'...why is this the only wall? Where are the security cameras watching the walls so you could check the footage? Why is the thermal signature not being constantly tracked with an alert set if it's lost? Why was the wall between the restricted northern area and the guest areas so terrible? That wall should have been stronger than any single wall on the northern side. You don't build a really powerful front line of defense and back it up with a sign saying 'keep out'...

So many dumb moments in that one scene. Feels like the writers wrote themselves into a corner with needing to show the Jurassic World crew were good at their jobs of keeping the animals safely away from people and needing to have the I. Rex escape. In any reasonable world the precautions would have been enough to keep it from escaping, but that's the plot for you.

Also...why did one random security guard have the password to open the cage and let the most dangerous creature on the island roam free? Seems like the sort of thing you'd want to keep at a higher level to me.

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Honestly, i think you are giving the dinosaurs too much credit. A dinosaur may be more deadly than a typical animal but they are STILL animals. They don't typically have the intelligence and drive to do anything that doesn't have to do with their natural instincts. Any enclosure that works for animals should work on dinosaurs aswell; you just need to make the enclosures bigger and stronger. Like the walls/fences. If they are strong enough to keep the animal out, the animal isn't normally gonna just keep pounding on it to break through it; They'll just go somewhere else. Why would they pound on that wall when everything they could want is on the side of the wall they are already on? I mean, lions and tigers will attack a human that enters its cage, but if they don't the predators will just wonder around their enclosure, even when their are tasty humans right outside their cage. They won't plot and scheme and try hard to break out; only way they are gonna leave is if someone opens the door for them or leaves it unlocked. Not to mention that even if they did get out, they are only gonna eat till their full and/or when threatened; they won't go all monster movie on people (which is why all the flying dinosaurs going straight for all the people felt silly and contrived). Heck even in the first movie the only reason the park fell into disaster was because someone went and turned the security off, which effectively freed the animals, rather than them escaping by pure accident

With I-Rex, the main flaw there was that they treated it like a normal animal when it was MUCH smarter. They had no reason to think it could climb out of the cage (which it couldn't), they didn't know it could camoflauge, was smart enough to stay silent, or could hide from heat sensors. If I-rex was only as smart as a typical animal, that enclosure should have been more than enough to hold it. That's the whole point really; I-rex was a monster that was far smarter and more capable than they ever imagined it would be... i mean you criticize them for going into the cage by why should they ever think that I-rex was capable of hiding from all forms of detection, much less being smart enough that it could set a trap for humans that involves them using deductive reasoning? Why should they think it was smart enough to think "If i put claw marks here, and hide myself, they'll think i escaped and come inside?", no animal aside from a human is THAT smart.

When it comes down to it, the security they had was enough to keep the park running without a major incident for years. The wild card was the I-Rex which was much more than even the scientists ever thought it would be.