Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom review: Hollywood finds a way to make dinosaurs boring

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Dir: J A Bayona; Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ted Levine, Rafe Spall, Toby Jones, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Jeff Goldblum. 12A cert, 128 mins.

Exactly why would anyone visit a dinosaur-infested island for a fifth time, when all four previous excursions had ended in limb-gobbling pandemonium? Well, when a hit-and-hope franchise revival like Jurassic World becomes the fifth most lucrative film ever made, with global takings in the region of $1.6 billion, you can be sure that Hollywood, like life, will find a way. 

And so it has done in the case of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The barely coherent new entry in the Jurassic franchise sends the two new series...

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