Jurassic World Dominion Review
Jurassic World Dominion is the third and final Jurassic World movie distributed by Universal Pictures and directed by Colin Trevorrow. This movie in the series seeks to wrap up the Jurassic World trilogy, seeks to, doesn’t really work but we’ll get to that later. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) live in secret as Maisie is a wanted person due to her unique heritage. The trio’s little family is awkward and they fight often as Maisie feels trapped. Blue’s daughter and Maisie are captured by mercs working for the movie’s big bad company Biosyn. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) is researching giant locusts that are wiping out the worlds agricultural land, except for those who use Biosyn seeds. She recruits the help of Alan Grant (Sam Niell) after confirming that she has a leak inside Biosyn, that being Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum.) They visit the Biosyn HQ and meet the head honcho there Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott.) Meting up with Ian, he hands them his pass to get into the secure area where the locusts are being held. From there the story goes to Malta where Claire and Owen try to find Maisie, being too late they hitch a ride with Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise) to the Biosyn HQ. Through random incidents the team eventually all meet up and having the locusts set on fire and escaped they set the safety zone for the dinosaurs alight. They escape with no casualties besides the bad guy and everyone’s happy. That’s as spoiler free as I can make it.
Review
Well, where do I start? I’d say the best way to describe this film is convenient and messy at the same time. It felt throughout the whole thing like 5 different stories trying to be told but it also felt lazy. The film gets the new Jurassic team and the old Jurassic team together through a series of coincidences. However throughout the story being told, the whole film feels like a rip-off of it’s predecessors, sometimes even going so far as to use shot for shot the same scene just with a different actor. That would usually be fine if it happened now and again as nice homage, it’s not now and again, it’s the foundations of which this entire story is built. In fact, the only “new” storyline is the one concerning Maisie and her being a clone. That’s given about 30 minutes total.
In the end the film is disjointed, lazy and relies on call backs way more than it should, as an old Jurassic Park nerd who can never get enough of the films I found myself getting annoyed by the fanservice. The only fanservice that really works is when Ian is involved and let’s face it, it’s Jeff Goldblum, he could make anything seem fun. I’m one of those fans who’s always overlooked the blatant and obvious oversaturation of Jurassic films because I didn’t care much for quality when I get cool dinosaurs to watch, I even liked the second Jurassic World film because it seemed like it was going to do the brave thing and try something new for a change. But even I can’t cover for this. I was bored, waiting for the next action sequence because I’d rather a mindless action sequence than Claire and Owen staring into each other’s eyes again.
This is the only Jurassic film I can’t bear to even think about watching again, an absolute shambles.
