HipsterZOMBIEJoint Movie Review – Jurassic World: Dominion
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is a franchise that has endured for two decades. The franchise revolutionized the Summer Blockbuster starting way back in 1993. The films groundbreaking special effects made us believe in the majestic beauty of dinosaurs. However, each sequel had one thing in common: Diminishing returns. Not at the box office but in the quality of its sequels. Sadly not much has changed.
The film is directed by Colin Trevorrow, written by Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael and based on a story by Trevorrow and Derek Connolly. It is the sequel to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom(2018), the sixth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, the final film in the Jurassic World trilogy, and the conclusion to the storyline started in the original Jurassic Parktrilogy. As with its predecessors, Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley produced the film with Trevorrow and Jurassic Park (1993) director Steven Spielberg acting as executive producers.
The film stars an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, BD Wong, Omar Sy, Isabella Sermon, Justice Smith, and Daniella Pineda reprising their roles from previous films in the franchise, and are joined by DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, Campbell Scott, Scott Haze, and Dichen Lachman. Dern, Goldblum and Neill reprise their roles from the Jurassic Park trilogy, appearing together for the first time since the 1993 film. The film is set four years after the events of Fallen Kingdom, with dinosaursnow living alongside humans around the world.
For a film with a flimsy story it is littered with subplots that never fully pan out. Whether it’s kidnappings or prehistoric locusts, Dominion has a hard time trying to decide which plotline to explore while rushing through the film at a break neck pace.
If you thought this film would finally give us what was teased in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which was a world overrun with Dinosaurs you will be solely disappointed. Besides a few scenes here and there, the film hardly even touches on it. In fact for the most part everyone is nonchalant that Dinosaurs pop up throughout the world and more concerned about an invasion of giant prehistoric locusts that were created by a corporation called Biosyn and run by an odd eccentric billionaire Lewis Dodgson. Actor Campbell Scott who plays Dodgson looks like Steve Jobs but comes across like Andy Warhol. His acting choices are odd and very oft-putting.
Beyond that if you have seen any Jurassic Park film ever you know what’s next: a group of characters go to a high tech facility, something goes wrong, dinosaurs run rampant. It’s the same story structure only this time the story reunites classic characters Ellie, Alan, and Ian for one last final adventure. Honestly if it wasn’t for the OG cast showing up here I am not even sure I would have even liked this film.
But as I mentioned earlier, the dinosaurs just don’t pose too much of a threat it feels like. The film spends way too much time trying to set up these super locusts destroying the Earth’s supply of food that the Dinosaurs feel like an after thought.
If this is the final film in the franchise it ends without a true resolution. The dinosaurs are still among us as the credits role and people seem okay with that.
As a fun loud and dumb popcorn flick JWD is just okay at best and if this is the end the franchise deserves a better send off.
I’m conclusion, HipsterZOMBIEJoint Experience says The Jurassic World franchise should be put on the extinct list and quit trying to copy the magic of the original 1993 film.
