(June 16, 2015 at 9:35 am)Aractus Wrote: Most of the characters were not believable. In JP, in both the book and the film Dennis Nedry is motivated by greed to smuggle out the dino embryos for Biosyn. Nedry dies as a result of his attempt to do this, being the first (or one of the first) victim after the park's security is disabled. Dodgson never goes to the island - but in TLW he goes to "site b" to steal dino eggs, and ultimately he dies. Those are the "antagonists". Now, the quintessential movie formula is to have your antagonist die towards the end in some very important moment that the film has been developing to. Plus the antagonist should have created the problem, or made it worse. It was in fact the protagonist Owen Grady who allowed the mutant dino to escape its enclosure in the first place! He was too stupid to check the other side of the wall before going in to the enclosure.
I remember the escape scene a little different; it was the panicked paddock operator that opened the gate in an attempt to escape after discovering they weren't alone. I fully agree that not checking the other side of the wall was somewhat baffling. Perhaps more disconcerting to me was everyone involved not realizing that had this mutant dino indeed scaled the wall that the problem would have immediately found them and not the other way around, unless the assumption was that the beast was tip toeing around the brush as if it were also bred with ninja DNA.
I thought Wu and Hoskins intentionally breeding mutants for combat was antagonistic enough. Hoskins is dispatched in traditional fashion near the end after divulging what he's been up to all along, but Wu gets off the island with embryos to set up yet another movie. Despite the silliness we explored earlier in the escape scene, Indominus doesn't escape without it's combat purposed visual and thermal camouflage so I hold Hoskins and Wu more accountable than Owen. Keep in mind that Owen did not open the gate and initially attempted to make it back to the control area of the paddock.
I thought the movie was entertaining since I went to see misunderstood jail-breaking dinosaurs tear shit up. I did not have any preconceived misconceptions about unstated promises of deep character development, non-porous plot lines, or adherence to known science.