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IF you follow the lead of Jurassic Park’s hubristic scientists and splice the creative DNA of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 behemoth with the rumbustious 2015 reboot Jurassic World, the resultant hybrid would roar, rampage and ultimately stumble like this fifth instalment.

Directed at a gallop by Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a slick yet soulless greatest hits of monster-munching mayhem, bolted together with overblown set pieces that hark back to earlier episodes.

A cute grandchild in peril, a T-Rex roaring triumphantly over its domain as composer John Williams’s familiar theme swells, a reflection of “objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”, Jeff Goldblum’s chaos mathematician foreshadowing wanton bloodshed with sage words about evolutionary order.

Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s script takes a velociraptor’s claw to character development, meekly sketching a rogue’s gallery of computer hackers, palaeobotanists and Machiavellian men in suits before Missed it at the cinema or on TV? We round up the best streaming and DVD releases of the week