The End of Oak Street | Film Review

 

When Oak Street is transported to an unknown time and place, the Platt family must work together to make it out alive.

I was looking forward to this film, while also acknowledging that it probably wouldn't be amazing. But I love a dinosaur/creature movie, so I was definitely interested!

I kind of got what I expected with this. It was fun, but didn't have a lot else going for it.

For a start, it took a while to get used to some of the acting choices. I wouldn't say the entirety of the acting was good anyway, but after a while when you get into the film, it's not as jarring as it can be towards the beginning.

The character development was odd. At the beginning, it tried really hard to give these characters backstories and full lives in hopes that the audience might be able to connect with them. But then this just went completely out of the window. When we didn't need to care about the characters, we were given too much, and when we actually needed to care about them, there was nothing to work with.

And because of that, when things happen near the end that are supposed to be emotional, it didn't work because we don't care about the characters that much.

The CGI wasn't great. This isn't supposed to be the most serious movie, but when you look at dinosaur movies, even back in the day to the first Jurassic Park, this movie feels like a huge step in the opposite direction.

But this didn't matter too much because realism is clearly not important in the movie, in a way that does make it fun. The characters make crazy decisions, the explanations don't quite make sense, and the more chaotic it gets the more fun it is.

Speaking of the explanation, I don't think a film like this needs an overarching scientific explanation, but I did appreciate the obvious thought that went into it.

So overall, while this was fun, it didn't have much substance. But then I'm not sure how much you'd expect from it anyway.

5/10