Jurassic World Dominion

Jurassic World Dominion

Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.

  • Released: 2022-06-01
  • Runtime: 147 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure
  • Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Mamoudou Athie, Scott Haze, Dichen Lachman, Daniella Pineda, Campbell Scott, Isabella Sermon, Justice Smith, Omar Sy, DeWanda Wise, BD Wong, Joel Elferink, Jake Johnson, Kristoffer Polaha, Elva Trill, Lillia Langley, Glynis Davies, Dimitri Vegas, Adam Kiani, Enzo Squillino Jr., Bastian Antonio Fuentes, Bernardo Santos, Ross Donnelly, Manuela Mora, Teresa Cendon-Garcia, Metin Hassan, Cokey Falkow, Caleb Hearon, Jasmine Chiu, Emilie Jumeaux, Eleanor Tata, Lynn Hunter, Cathleen Summers, Patrick Loungway, Michael Bendib, Freya Parker, Alexander Owen, Ahir Shah
  • Director: Colin Trevorrow
 Comments
  • Maxyger756 - 19 June 2024
    Very messy film that is frustrating
    This is probably better than the last film but that's not saying much. Jurassic World Dominion somehow was turned into a rescue-sci film with dinosaurs added for fun. At least it's garbage predecessors still had a focus on the dinos. I immediately braced for awfulness as our team picked out a triceratop and kidnaps him where none of the dinosaur's kind exists in the beginning instead of saving all of them

    There is just too many going on and there is too many subplots during the 2nd act

    1. Owen and Claire are on an adventure to rescue mission and are in Malta fighting people

    2. Some other bad guys have convinced Maisie to stay aboard

    3. Henry for some reason created gigantic locusts that is destroying crop fields around the US

    4. The OG characters from the original trilogy are back for no reason and they are on another adventure that is definitely not straight up copied from the previous films

    And all of these completely different subplots that could even be separated into their own films finally meet up during the 3rd act climax. However the ending was a bit entertaining, I admit but then we have a cliche film moment near the end where Henry says "I must come along with you guys to fix my mistakes" and our team says "No no no, you're a bad boy" but then Henry is forgotten as a dinosaur sees them and he's immediately allowed to come along.

    What I'm frustrated about is our central trio(Owen, Claire, and Maisie). Owen is still having trouble with Blue but even though he admits that he failed to tame her, and Owen is still doing that annoying pose when he comes across dinosaurs. Speaking of which, blue has 0 purpose in this film, neither is her daughter. I feel like it would have been better if they killed off Blue in the last film to give the movie a bit of a more of an emotional resonance with the audience. Maisie also really despises her parents for no reason and suddenly loves them at the climax. Claire was somewhat decent but she did have her fair share of her own awkward, dumb moments

    The story is not even about dinosaurs anymore. In fact, I don't even know what this film is trying to be about. A dinosaur film? A search and rescue film? A survival film? Or a film that has no themes or thematic richness that is cashing off our nostalgia with inconsistent tones? You know maybe the last one is correct.

    One positive I have to say other than the entertaining climax is also the new characters. Yes, even if they already re-introduced the OG people, they still had room for new characters. But they weren't half bad though. Kayla had a ton of personality and she was actually useful and Barry, with not much screen-time still left some moments.

    Wow, that was a very long review, probably my longest one ever but that says a lot about how bad this product was

    Rating: 5.1/10.
  • DMB-23027 - 28 April 2024
    Dino-bore
    When I watch a film in the Jurassic series I want to see tense encounters between humans and dinosaurs. What I don't want to see is story about a clone child and genetically engineered locusts. Sadly, that's what we get with Jurassic World Dominion. Quite why those involved in the development thought this was the direction to take is anybodies guess but unsurprisingly, it doesn't work. I could live with this is the plot served as nothing more than a means to take us from dino encounter to another but it doesn't. Instead the dinosaurs feel almost like they are an afterthought.

    When the dino action arrives it generally is pretty good but there just isn't enough of it to elevate the film above its dull plot. And some of the thrill of the chase is lost. In the past films there was always that element of tension as you knew that the protagonists probably hadn't shaken off the threat of the T-Rex, Velociraptor or Spinosaurus. None of that exists here though as in an attempt to just cram in as many different dinosaurs as possible, almost every different action sequence involves a different dinosaur. For me this removed all tension. Even the films supposed big bad, the Giganotosaurus, is given an underwhelming amount of screen-time.

    I'm probably being a bit generous giving this a 4 but as a dino nerd and a JP fan, there is still a bit of a thrill seeing dinosaurs in action, even if the overall quality of the film is poor.