Bayona, an expert craftsman who handles scenes of large-scale destruction (“The Impossible”) and intimate, squirm-inducing horror (“The Orphanage”) with equal ease. The task of directing “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” has landed in the more confident hands of J.A. The movie, directed and co-written by Colin Trevorrow, poked cynical fun at the mercenary nature of the Hollywood assembly line, basically offering a preemptive apology for falling so far short of “Jurassic Park,” Steven Spielberg’s peerless 1993 adaptation of Michael Crichton’s bestseller. “Jurassic World” (2015), named for a doomed dinosaur theme park on the remote Isla Nublar, tried to enliven its jaw-snapping, earth-trampling proceedings with a strain of self-reflexive humor. One of the minor pleasures of this series is that it has begun to provide a running (and I do mean running) commentary on its own existence. At this point in the game - five films deep in a franchise that has grossed more than $2 billion worldwide over a quarter-century - that question might seem less applicable to the dinosaurs than to the movies themselves. Dinosaurs: Keep them alive or kill them off? It’s a question that haunts the human characters in between fireball-dodging cardio workouts in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” the spectacularly ho-hum new entry in Hollywood’s longest-running parable about the fatal idiocy of messing with Mother Nature.
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