Jurassic World
Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 12, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 49 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
18
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 11, 2015
Jurassic World unquestionably “delivers.” It feels like a hit; it offers a professionally crafted blend of blandness, predictability, watered-down cultural commentary and manufactured excitement. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 11, 2015
A bronto-sized slice of big-screen entertainment buoyed by dazzling visual effects and intense action, and a film that plays like part adventure movie, part monster movie and part thrill ride. Read full review
60
The DissolveKeith PhippsJun 10, 2015
It’s fun, but it’s ultimately more of the same in brand-new packaging. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJun 10, 2015
Intensely self-conscious of its status as a cultural commodity even as it devotedly follows the requisite playbook for mass-audience blockbuster fare, Jurassic World can reasonably lay claim to the number two position among the four series entries, as it goes down quite a bit easier than the previous two sequels. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJacob HallJun 10, 2015
For much of its running time, Jurassic World plays like a great theme park ride. In an age of blockbusters that lumber like herbivores, it’s refreshing to see a movie as lean and mean as a velociraptor. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 10, 2015
While slickly enjoyable in parts, the biggest misstep here comes by puncturing Spielberg’s grandeur. Read full review
58
IndieWireGreg CwikJun 10, 2015
Trevorrow, like so many directors given the responsibility of delivering a straightforward blockbuster designed to satisfy bottom-line expectations, struggles to find the balance between silly and serious. Read full review
52
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJun 10, 2015
Jurassic World never works all that hard to wow us, either with groundbreaking effects or with a story that remotely holds our attention. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJun 10, 2015
It’s all in good fun, and critic-proof to boot, but Jurassic World doesn’t even come close to that most intimate and dearly coveted “Gosh, wow” sense-of-wonder that the original film mustered so easily. Roar more, bite less. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 10, 2015
What’s missing from director Colin “Safety Not Guaranteed” Trevorrow’s thriller is that “wow factor” that Spielberg’s first outing delivered. Lacking that, and any serious effort at rethinking the story formula, Jurassic World plays like a theme park ride that’s a decade out of date. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 10, 2015
The most enjoyable moments of an otherwise oddly joyless film actually belong to Jake Johnson and Lauren Lapkus, who steal the show in an especially amusing scene during a panicked evacuation. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 10, 2015
Every third person on the planet will go to see this movie, and they will find exactly what they seek, nothing more but certainly nothing less. It's that nothing more part that ultimately disappoints. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanJun 10, 2015
The team of four writers supplies one surprise, and you’ll wait 90 minutes to see it. Before and afterward, stereotypical genre characters get trotted out. Read full review
50
VarietyScott FoundasJun 10, 2015
It’s fun enough while it lasts, but somehow, finally, all too much and not enough. The problem isn’t that dinosaurs have ceased to impress us, but that dinosaurs alone are not enough to sustain us Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneJun 10, 2015
Jurassic World can't tell whether it wants to be junk food or not, lovingly poking fun at some Hollywood tropes while shamelessly indulging others. Read full review
42
Portland OregonianJeff BakerJun 11, 2015
It turns out bigger is not better. Bigger is louder, you bet your pounding eardrums it is, but it's not smarter. More teeth aren't sharper. They're dull, and so is Jurassic World. Read full review
40
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJun 15, 2015
Dull for the first hour and beefy with basic thrills for most of the second. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 10, 2015
While Jurassic World boasts a few efficient sequences...mostly it’s a grim affair that’s not leavened by adequate humour or a palpable romantic spark between Pratt and Howard. Read full review
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