How a thrilling eight minute short might save the Jurassic franchise

In new short film Battle at Big Rock, a seat-edge setpiece surpasses the two full-length dino-thrillers that came before itI bring you good news and bad news.

The good news is that the new Jurassic World film Battle at Big Rock is by far the best in the series, managing to be wholly original (unlike Jurassic World) without being aggressively, bonk-headedly stupid (unlike Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).

It’s tight, it’s tense, it’s a perfect fat-free distillation of everything that’s good about the Jurassic World franchise.

However – and now for the bad news – it’s only eight minutes long.Related: Can shifting to a female-focused future overcome Terminator: Dark Fate‘s bad buzz?

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