Josh Lewis’s review published on Letterboxd:
This review may contain spoilers.
Maybe Turok and Planet of the Apes were too good/ambitious of reference points to go into this with but was sadly disappointed despite what seems like a sure-thing premise (Earth crash-landing survival setpieces hours before the asteroid that wipes out the dinosaurs hits) and Driver giving it more than was necessary with his mud-crawling physicality and tortured father screams. Unfortunately the Quiet Place writers just got so distracted by the not-particularly effective family/protector story that they forget to do the thing on the tin that a movie like this lives or dies on: the actual action. I forgive a lot of things about Jurassic Park 3 because of how lean and mean the suspense sequencing is and this just never really builds much tension or if it does is always cutting away or giving an easy, anti-climactic out every chance it gets. Watching this I realized why the Jurassic Park movies almost never give their characters guns (or, if they do, at least render them ineffective fairly quickly); it's boring! The only action beat I can even remember seconds after finishing is Driver's race to pop his dislocated shoulder back in so he can fire his gun with dinosaurs charging him; needed more of that. Think I'll take Idris Elba fist-fighting a lion in beast over this one.
Full discussion on my podcast SLEAZOIDS.
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