Viewed: 12/6/22.
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Actors: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Isabella Sermon, DeWanda Wise
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: M
‘Jurassic
World Dominion’ (or Jurassic Park 6) is the presumed end of this second trilogy.
It primarily follows Owen (Pratt), Claire (Howard) & their adopted daughter
Maisie (Sermon), as she’s hunted/kidnapped by bad guys that think she’s a
clone. Then they throw in the original team of Ellie (Dern), Alan (Neill,
struggling to find his accent from the original film) and Ian (Goldblum) who
are working to bring down Biosyn Corp and their GE locusts, led by Dodgson
(Scott). They have help from Kayla (Wise), Ramsay (Athie) and Barry (Sy), and
BD Wong is also back as Dr Wu.
While the
premise of dinosaurs roaming wild is an interesting concept, it’s not fully
explored and only hinted at in parts. Where it is shown, such as Owen wrangling
the Parasaurolophus, there’s more questions as to the potential realness of it,
i.e. reptiles living in the snow, horses being as fast as them, their calmness.
There’s a lot of “really?!” moments in this film. There’s some funny moments
and some good action scenes, but it all seems to have too many chefs and lacks focus/seems rushed.
This is nowhere
near the quality of the original film – probably slightly better than ‘Jurassic
Park III’ and ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’, not that that means much. Oddly,
while we see a few dinosaurs, including some new ones, but mostly the tried
& tested favourites – there seems to be not that many scenes where
dinosaurs are the main focus. While not horribly slow, it doesn’t feel like it
all comes together and starts working until the final 40min, which isn’t much
of the 2 hour 20min running time.
Overall: Average attempt to wrap up the dinos-gone-wild
story.
Gav’s Rating: 3 stars.
