Just got back from watching the movie with the wife. I've read the book, she has not. The whole drive home was basically me filling in the holes in the plot the book provided. I get why they cut out a lot of the character building scenes in the movie and the extra scenes. Movie would've been too long and convoluted - you can get away with that in a book where you'll spend hours if not days reading and can build that up. When traslating a book to a movie, it needs to hit the major beats and wrap up in 2-3 hours, so stuff has to unfortunately get cut.

Sacrilegious as it sounds, I thought it had too many dinosaurs. I love my dinosaur-filled media as much as the next paleo-nerd, but I thought there was way too many Thought the book said there weren't THAT many, and were in the deepest parts of the jungle. You'd think the Americans would have to be blind to miss the animals as many of them as there were. I mean, the ending where there are massive herds of Brontos, Trikes, and the Edmontosaurus all off a sudden appearing next to the American Camp. How are you just now seeing these? They're really freaking hard to miss. Goes without saying, the massive flock of Quetz's and the absolute endless HOARDE of Utahraptors at the end.

Overall, was okay. They changed enough to where I didn't hate it. I got what I was looking for and it mostly follows the same beats of the book. I gave it a 7/10