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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.

“This isn’t strategy,” says Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), surveying the remains of Ultron’s first victim. “This is rage.”