Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's 10 Best Moments

Warning: Spoilers for Jurassic World 2.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom might have received some mixed reviews (and some very brutal ones), but there's no denying the movie features some truly spectacular moments.

Indeed, the sequel to 2015's Jurassic World really changes up the formula, with the movie dispensing with Isla Nublar care of a volcanic eruption and moving the action to a gothic estate house. As the posters proclaimed, the park is indeed gone, and this means that director J.A. Bayona has a lot of freedom to play with new ideas.

A lot of the best parts of Fallen Kingdom come thanks to the dinosaurs, who really outshine most of the human characters in terms of both likeability and usefulness. With plenty of terrifying Bayona action, here are the best moments from Jurassic World 2.

From the very opening sequence, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom sets itself up as the "horror-suspense film" that producer Colin Trevorrow promised. It details an mission to retrieve a bone from the Indominous Rex skeleton (so the Indoraptor can be completed). The Mosasaurus still lurks in the lagoon, however, and it's been waiting for fresh prey. The bone makes it back to the surface, but as the land team desperately await the return of the ill-fated crew, the T-Rex attacks. A rushed evacuation begins, with one poor crew member left clinging to the helicopter ladder... only to be caught when the Mosasaurus leaps from the water and swallows him whole.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom contains possibly the most emotional scene of the entire franchise. As Lockwood's team leaves the island, Claire, Owen and Franklin make it on the ferry with seconds to spare. Not everybody gets away, however. Once the boat has pulled away, a Brachiosaurus comes onto the pier, screaming as the heat, smoke and lava of the volcanic eruption catches up with it.

These gentle giants have been a staple of the Jurassic movies since the very beginning, and a reminder of just how majestic dinosaurs can be. Indeed, just minutes earlier, we saw Zia and Franklin meeting them for the first time. The shot of this giant creature, standing on the dock as the lava slowly envelops her, marks an end to that wonder and conveys just how real the threat of extinction now is.

One of the standout new characters in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is paleoveterinarian Zia. Although the film has come under fire for cutting a scene confirming her as LGBT, Daniella Pineda's role still has a strong impact; she's incredibly intelligent, caring towards the dinosaurs, and ideologically strong.

Zia really comes into her own when Blue is injured by one of Lockwood's mercenaries, taking control of the undercover operation and commanding the film's leads to risk their lives getting blood from the T-Rex. Zia performs the transfusion correctly, and Blue survives. The best part, however, comes later when Dr. Wu tries to extract the raptor's DNA and Zia smugly informs him that she performed a transfusion with a T-Rex: "it's a bit of a sock drawer in there."

Usually in Jurassic movies, the bigger the dinosaur, the bigger the threat. That's not totally true in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. When Owen and Claire are caged at Lockwood Manor, they take advantage of the headbutting Stygimoloch to escape their cells; the horned dinosaur is being held in the next door cage, so Owen baits it to smash through the wall and break their lock.

Not only does this free our heroes, but also the dinosaur, which goes on to charge straight into the packed auction room, sending the rich and amoral running... and setting up the release of the Indoraptor.

Of course, the Indoraptor wouldn't have been released without a seriously dumb - but great to watch - decision. As the Stygimoloch charges through the auction hall, the buyers run for their lives. Ken Wheatley, however, takes the opportunity to try and take one of the Indoraptor's teeth as a trophy.

Despite having done this to other dinosaurs, Wheatley hasn't reckoned on the fearsomeness or intelligence of the Indoraptor. It awakens, toys with her prey, then quickly servers his arm before eating him. It's a gruesome but glorious moment; the bounty hunter deserved nothing less.

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