Jurassic World Dominion Review

June 16, 2022

Last Updated Date: June 16, 2022

Jurassic World Dominion Review you must know before watching the movie. The film which opens in theaters throughout the world on Friday (June 10), is a horrible film. We won’t be able to avoid it, so we might as well face it full on. It perplexingly dismisses the two most exciting notions from its predecessor: human cloning and the presence of dinosaurs among us. In an attempt to make Jurassic World Dominion about parenthood and a mother’s love rather than its ethical consequences, the former is retconned out. This isn’t like the case with Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, where a writer-director goes against what the prior person built up. Colin Trevorrow, the writer-director of Jurassic World Dominion, is working against himself here, considering he also wrote Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Before release of the movie, the fans waited for the latest Hollywood Movies 2022 including Jurassic World Dominion. Therefore, if you are a fan of the sequels, this Jurassic World Dominion Review article is for you. So, don’t miss this write-up.

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Jurassic World Dominion Review

Jurassic World Dominion commits a far more serious crime by mostly ignoring the latter’s potential. Rather than being set in our world and focusing on what it might be like for humans to coexist with dinosaurs, as the two preceding shorts — the 10-minute film Battle at Big Rock and the untitled five-minute “prologue” that is no longer part of the film — the bulk of Jurassic World Dominion takes place once again within an isolated dinosaur sanctuary run by a multinational corporation solely for profit. What good is a title like Jurassic World if your (bad, no-good) trilogy ends without showing us how the world and its numerous civilizations deal with dinosaurs in different ways?

Jurassic World Dominion 2 — Photo: Universal Pictures

Jurassic World Dominion story

The fact that the best portion of Jurassic World Dominion takes place in the real world just adds to the folly of that writing decision — Emily Carmichael (Pacific Rim: Uprising) is Trevorrow’s co-screenwriter here — Malta, to be exact. It follows the protagonists into a dinosaur black market where döner dino kebabs are sold and caged raptors are forced to battle for sport. It’s a spotless setting.

They must next contend with a dinosaur smuggler and her trained gang of allosaurus while searching for an abducted girl and velociraptor. The tiny alleys of Malta add to exciting chase sequences, one of which includes action beats from The Shining and The Bourne Ultimatum, among others. I would argue that the latter has a far bigger impact on Jurassic World Dominion, with the pulsing Malta action captivating if not totally logical, courtesy to Bourne-style photography (from Jurassic World’s John Schwartzman). This Jurassic World Dominion Review will tell you the story about latest sequel of Jurassic Park.

Jurassic World Dominion, on the other hand, is incoherent, predictable, shabbily executed, overly serious, and unnecessarily long (at 146 minutes with credits). Dominion had me wondering, “What makes a good Jurassic movie?” because Steven Spielberg remains the only director to provide a solid picture in the genre. Trevorrow and company appear to be responding by unleashing new species of dinosaurs on humanity. As if he were collecting Pokémon cards, he has spoken of “saving” Giganotosaurus for the third feature. To be fair, the dinosaurs have been reduced to that level at this time. For the filmmakers, they’re toys, and for the villains, they’re minions. The enchantment that Jurassic Park elicited has long since faded. Now it’s all about how much VFX you can throw at the audience.

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Jurassic World Dominion is now bookended by two informative and impersonal news parts, replacing the tonally-fit “prologue”. Consider beginning your $165-million film with a newscast. Following that, Jurassic World Dominion breaks into two parallel narratives as it reintroduces us to the protagonists – old, new, and all-new.

Former raptor trainer and dinosaur herder Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and former park manager and dinosaur rights activist Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) set out to save their adopted daughter Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon), the human clone who was the big surprise of Fallen Kingdom, after she is kidnapped by BioSyn, a genetics giant that has created a dinosaur sanctuary in Italy’s Dolomites range.

New Villain in Jurassic Park Dominion

The new enemy is BioSyn CEO Dr. Lewis Dodgson — Campbell Scott, who takes over from Cameron Thor 30 years later, who sees Maisie as the “world’s most valuable IP.” They’re making it far too easy for us to draw connections between Universal Pictures‘ and Jurassic World’s perspectives. Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) of the OG squad study BioSyn with the help of Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). They don’t need an introduction because they appeared in Jurassic Park. DeWanda Wise as pilot-for-hire Kayla Watts, who crosses paths with Owen and Claire, and Mamoudou Athie as BioSyn communications chief Ramsay Cole, whose loyalties are questioned, are two all-new characters.

As you can see, Jurassic World Dominion, like Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, discards or relegates formerly prominent characters to the background. Even Owen’s raptor pal Blue has been forgotten, and her baby Beta is mostly employed as a MacGuffin. Jurassic World Dominion tries to tie up the loose ends of Owen and Blue’s relationship, but it feels out of place given that the film isn’t really about them. How will the Jurassic World franchise get us to care about its primary characters if it can’t even get them to care about themselves?

What About the Previous films of Jurassic World?

The bigger issue is that the previous films, Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, failed to establish new human characters well enough for us to care about them. Now that it’s too late to make reparations, Trevorrow has chosen to tap into our nostalgia for the original group, one of whom made a cameo appearance in the previous film. But his grasp of these people is frustratingly restricted, as if they haven’t changed in the decades they’ve been gone. Nonetheless, Dern has more natural charisma than Pratt has in three films.

Jurassic World Dominion 3 — Photo: Universal Pictures

Pratt has never been the perfect anchor for this series, in my opinion. Regardless of how much Hollywood throws his way, I don’t think he has the presence to carry off the self-serious tough-guy part. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which parodies on Pratt’s Parks & Recreation experience, has him considerably better deployed in a jokey and self-aware manner. And I believe Trevorrow has realized this at some point. Which explains why, unlike the first two films, he’s rarely left alone in this one. Pratt appears alongside Howard, Wise, Sermon, Neill, Omar Sy, and, finally, the entire group in Jurassic World Dominion.

Jurassic World Dominion Details

Release Date: 10 June 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Mamoudou Athie, Scott Haze, Dichen Lachman, Daniella Pineda, Campbell Scott, Isabella Sermon, Justice Smith, Omar Sy, DeWanda Wise, BD Wong, Elva Trill, Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Dimitri Thivaios
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Music: Michael Giacchino
Producer: Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley
Production: Amblin Entertainment, Latina Pictures, Perfect World Pictures