Not only do the actors look bored with the dinos, who once commanded awe and fear, the creatures too seem disinterested.

Colin Trevorrow's belated follow-up to Jurassic Park is one of the most intriguing of recent reboots, since the premise of a theme park inhabited by actual dinosaurs directly dramatises the dangers of bringing the past back to life.

Fallen Kingdom is wholly lacking in shock and awe.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom tries to inject the franchise with more of everything, but it’s less than the sum of its genetic parts.