Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow)

[Grouchy]

[Grouchy]

As humiliatingly bad as I'd heard, Jurassic World: Dominion really takes the laziness to another level and has the audacity to hit you over the head with almost three hours of soap opera level of dialogue, poorly staged nostalgia throwbacks and badly edited action and even simple exposition scenes. Please stop trying with this franchise. The CGI is predictably the only part of this that's an improvement over all the previous jurassic adventures, specially in the final montage sequence that seems to have been developed more carefully or by a different team. But that on its own is not enough to hold up a narrative as poorly conceived as this one. Making entertaining dinosaur movies shouldn't bee this hard.

[Ivan Drago]

From Letterboxd:

Better than Fallen Kingdom, but that’s not saying much. Both sets of old and new characters once again aren't given anything interesting to do or learn, the narrative takes over an hour to get remotely interesting, only for the dinosaurs to not only be transported *back* to an island despite being left free to live in our ecosystem in Fallen Kingdom, but also be relegated to the background in favor of a main plot involving the clone child devoid of personality introduced in the previous film and a swarm of murder locusts eating all the world’s crops.

Dominion often feels like a movie made after director Colin Trevorrow was told to make James Bond in the world of Interstellar and somehow cram a few dinosaur fights and chase sequences where they fit best. But when the dinosaurs do appear on-screen, they make the most of it because if there’s one thing Trevorrow knows how to do, it’s stage exciting action sequences. Scenes that see Claire Dearing trudge silently through a swamp with dinosaur jaws around her at all sides and Chris Pratt maneuver a motorcycle around dinosaurs on the streets of Italy are tense, suspenseful and full of thrills and cinematography that makes our contemporary world and the dinosaurs look terrifying. It’s just a shame they don’t feel important in a 146-minute blockbuster that doesn’t know what it’s about.

[Philip J. Fry]

I cannot remember a single thing from this movie except from the fact I watched it in a theater (and sadly, dubbed)