I saw this and I thought that is was a perfect example of the problems so many people seem to have had with the movie that seem to come from a lack of properly paying attention to what was going on in the film itself. The flick has problems to be sure, but all of these are easily explained. *puts on extreme Jurassic Park nerd glasses*

- He was thickly armored, and began clawing at his face as soon as the lava hit him, and afterwards had scorch marks on his skin.

- The boat was fleeing and leaving behind some of the team’s OWN men. They left the dock while a mercenary on a four wheeler was still racing to it and he also jumped the dock into the boat. The driver of the truck panicked and ran to the boat. Everyone on the boat’s crew, to the extent they could pay attention to things other than strapping down dinosaurs and avoiding flaming rocks falling from the sky, was EXPECTING the truck to come flying in. They weren’t even fully cognizant of who was behind the wheel, and further only the smaller crew accompanying Owen and Claire to capture Blue under false pretenses knew what Owen, Claire, Zia, and Franklin looked like, as Franklin later gets mistaken for one of the crew.

- Animals cry tears. Crocodiles cry tears. It doesn’t have to be from emotion, but from extreme physical distress. As in bleeding out after your artery is nicked by a bullet.

- They were loaded in the night, and the old man DID notice. He figured it out before they even got there in some form. That’s why he confronted Mills as the night was beginning. The nanny also likely noticed, but was leaving it to Lockwood and Mills to hash it out. What was the nanny supposed to do, exactly? Call the police with a wild story probably laughed off by local police who have, like the rest of humanity, no idea dinosaurs have reached mainland?

- This struck me as more like a lesson being given to a child from a father. Lockwood’s downfall was his sentimentality and his naivety. Mills was like a son to him; he completely and blindly trusted him with not only his fortune, but apparently with some degree of control over his inheritance and even the future of his “grandaughter”. He is saying, in essence, “Son you made a mistake and you are going to own up to it and stop it.” It’s naive, and it’s a mistake, because he underestimates how far Mills has fallen.

- Again, what was the Nanny going to do? And you’re assuming the multi-billionaire in the castle with hundreds of business connections hasn’t frequently had large scale gatherings at least somewhat frequently over the years? Plus, given that the Nanny has a level of clandestine knowledge of illegal practices, she has either signed some sort of NDA or could be considered an accessory for failing to blow the whistle sooner. And surely, her loyalty to Lockwood and especially to his child come into play.

- Is there reason to believe this was an auction room at the start? The lower levels were built from the beginning to house dinosaurs of some sort, and it would make sense to have a room with a track for moving cages into a display scenario, given that the early InGen development involved presenting potential product (i.e. caged dinosaurs) to investors (the same investors that would get cold feet a few years later after multiple accidents and at least one casualty and demand that the Isla Nublar Island resort be inspected by an endorsement team of experts under the guidance of their representative lawyer, Donald Gennaro). Also, this operation was at least two years in the making, since the Indoraptor seed DNA was retrieved from the Indominus carcass in the lagoon six months after the park fell.

- We have no idea what sorts of dinosaurs were expected to be held in those cages originally. Certainly not the same sort that have been newly developed by Masrani in the thirty years since this facility was fully operational in the late ‘80s. Remember the canon has it now that dinosaurs were going to go from this lab and holding area to a Jurassic Park in San Diego, before the entire genetics operation was moved to Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar instead (probably in no small part to the falling out between Hammond and Lockwood). Also, these dinosaurs were only meant to be in there for less than a single night before being sold, so nobody necessarily expects them to break out in a matter of three hours. AND the only reason that the wall did cave was because it was being stressed (by a dinosaur nearly 5 feet tall, not 3) in one small area due to Owen’s antagonizing of the Stygimoloch. It’s not like that dino would have gotten out were that not the case.

- Blue did NOT predict and run from an explosion. Gas begins spewing from the tanks. She sniffs it and retches, realizing it is dangerous (a common thing for an animal to do in such a situation) and takes flight. It then exploded and sent her flying, as she did NOT expect that.

- The idea of the clone was telegraphed to the audience no less than 4 or 5 separate times before the photo reveal. Lockwood tells Maisie that she is a “mirror image” of her mother, yet won’t let the obviously forlorn and curious girl see a picture of her mom. Ever. Imagine living as Maisie and never seeing an image of the mother you never met. The nanny, Iris, is the one who raised, “both of them”. This is set up perfectly. So much so that, while I didn’t put it all together until just before the final admission by Mills, multiple people in the audience around me in my second viewing (including my wife) audibly gasped when they saw the picture and said, “Oh my God, she’s a CLONE.” The reveal of her being a clone having no impact is a rather shocking assertion. It is perhaps the most important moment in the film! The two things the girl is obsessed with throughout the movie is, “When are you going to save the dinosaurs; are the dinosaurs safe?” and “Who was my mom?” In the hour before she presses the unpressable button she has lost the only parental figure in her life, found out that the dinosaurs she lives for are being sold to bad hombres as chattel (something she tried to stop the night before and failed), and then found out that she is essentially an artificial cloned life form (a subject she has been following on the news, which has told her that the dinosaurs were not worth saving because they are artificially created life forms among other things). Then she finally sees all of the dinosaurs together for the first time, and they are choking to death on a poison cloud and her friends decide to let them die, confirming in her child’s mind that she is also worthless and should be allowed to die. Of freaking course the nine year old pushed the button. The backlash that moment has gotten in the film has somewhat baffled me. Seems pretty understandable. She is even told by Lockwood that her mom, “would have saved them all”.

- I thought it was plainly obvious that she visited it in the early stages of it’s development, because she was the daughter of one of the founders. The first film took place before it was open, and there were operational rides and herds of full grown dinosaurs. I’m not sure how this is a problem. She visited probably in the early 90s or late 80s (the timeline is a bit fuzzy since she had to have died around then too, in order for Lockwood to begin pursuing human cloning technology, resulting in the dissolution of his partnership with Hammond).

- Mills was nowhere said to be the “personal assistant”. He has been tasked with guiding the entirety of the Lockwood estate and fortune, including the large scale illegal supposed rescue of the dinosaurs. The level of trust Lockwood had in Mills seems to have extended to Mills either being entrusted with Maisie’s care over and above Iris, or alternatively that Mills has worked the system - or knows how to work the system - in such a way that the nanny has no say (an NDA or being legally liable to a host of nefarious activities, being complicit in the caretaking of an illegal human clone being only the tip of the iceberg). And again, what is she supposed to do? Even if she kicked up a fuss, or decided to go get the police or whatever, hers would be an unbelievable story and the whole thing would have gone to hell by the time she intervened successfully anyway.

- This one is explained thoroughly above. It’s not merely that “she was a clone too”, but even if it was, given the surrounding circumstances, it is still completely believable that a small child might push that button.

- Perhaps this was slightly hokey, but if you’ve never seen an animal look at a cage with trepidation, you’ve never tried to take a cat to the vet. And also, Blue’s entirely relationship with Owen up to that point has been with her in a cage for much of it, and him outside giving the orders. She likely understands, given that she spent most of the movie in a cage, that to align yourself with a human means being willingly caged. She was no longer willing. Seems perfectly reasonable.

- You pretty much HAVE to take the kid, given what they now know. Any documentation she has is likely forged, she seems to have no outside contact with the world on a personal level, and should she be scrutinized on anything more than surface level, then it might come out that she has the identical human genes of a deceased child from the 1990s. She would be pulled apart by government regulations, human rights violators, rabid genetics companies, and media pundits and she has no source of protection from anyone she cares about, except for maybe the lady who raised her, Iris (her level of ability to deal with something like that seems questionable). Besides, given the recent legal precedent set in a public court, artificially created life could be arguably devoid of right to life. We don’t know what their plan is or where they are headed. That is a question for the sequel to answer. Too much is known to think much of this besides that she has fled with the only people she currently trusts (even Iris, technically speaking, abandoned her in her hour of need, which would make Maisie skeptical at best about her motives).

- Yes, this will probably be a significant issue to overcome in JW3.

- Yes, see above.