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In that long-ago, far-away galaxy, the saga continues.

By the time Spectre’s opening theme song has ended, James Bond (Daniel Craig) is suspended from duty over an international incident he caused in Mexico City while carrying out a final mission assigned by his former boss, M (Judi Dench), who died at the end of Skyfall.

As advertised, the park is open. John Hammond could scarcely have dreamed of this gleaming, sprawling facility, which takes the form of a futuristic resort and functions as a zoo for the most exciting (forget “extinct”) species ever to walk the earth, but its gates have opened and the crowds have come.

It is a rare movie that muzzles its hero for the first half hour, but the apparent signature of writer-director George Miller, helming his fourth Mad Max film exactly 30 years after Beyond Thunderdome, is to do as he pleases, and the consequences be damned.