Sam Neill has recently been quoted by Kris Tapley stating “Jurassic Park III is a much better film than a lot of people say.” Well, I have to agree with him after this new experience. In the light of these facts, that film is cinematic magic compared to this Frankenstein’s monster of cobbled together nostalgia bait and poorly constructed set pieces.
Jurassic Park is, and forever shall be regarded as, one of the best action packed blockbusters in history. It’s a pretty good written inquiry as to how things would go down if dinosaurs actually existed and fought up against some man.
In Lost World, dinosaurs still had some sense of realism; Jurassic Park 3 took the franchise into the kitsch and cult domain. Moreover, it managed to take the franchise to the “dark ages” before it was reborn the way it is supposed to be, which is the sequel trilogy.
Now it seems the public is nor good enough to handle just dinosaurs and so the franchise graced the world with human clones, hybrid dinosaurs and a woman running heels away from a trex.
Dominion does, however, promises to do what this franchise should have done a long time ago Go out with a boom and make all previous works feel like a child’s play in comparison.
As it turns out, there are very few ideas from this film that are entertaining, so if you came seeking glamour, don’t bother coming back for this one, and do yourself a favor by ignoring its potential pre-releases.
Four years have passed after Isla Nublar’s destruction and some time after Claire’s reckless action of freeing dinosaurs in the Fallen Kingdom. Somehow, they have reached every part of the Earth, from the oceans to the city centers in a relatively short time.
Some are being auctioned off to the highest bidder but a good portion just walks the plains enjoying life.
Biosyn sin (yes intended), over and over again with their so called “bee” drones, plans on causing a famine in the already crippled ecology and becoming the one provider for food on the planet.
Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) returns to take control of the danger thanks to Alan Grant (Sam Neill) who she brings with her. They go on a mission to free Dinosaurs from Biosyn overlords.
In this world, as astonishing as it may sound, dinosaurs once trampled this Earth, and so the science of paleontology is, and always will be irrespective of Grant’s concerns in Jurassic Park III, a thriving field that is still receiving support.
As these two flew over to Biosyn, Sinapah was reunited with Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and Eric Roberts while engaging greatly in the infiltrating ranks, another storyline featuring Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) also took much of the attention.
They are supposedly off the grid, where they keep Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) hidden and out of the light. But things don’t go that smoothly as poachers appear on the scene, taking away her, and Blues offspring. Owen promises Blue that they’ll bring back her baby, sending the pair upon an international adventure to find the two.
These two narratives do not coincide directly with one another however, cheap, desperate fan service has been thrown into the mix to create the threads that tie the two together. “Oh, do you remember when Ellie got up from her seat in a jeep and tilted her head back while pulling down her sunglasses in Jurassic Park and all the male dinosaurs grew angry?”; “Do you remember the laser pointer used in the conglomerations of a kingdom’s fallen Indoraptor?”; “Do you remember the monster tail with the coffee cup for a muzzle?” Forget the fact that all these ‘reveals’ are provably unsatisfying, little more than cheap fan service so called retcons never get any resolution.
Adding salt to the wound, the very plot tries to rip set pieces from other similar films and their scenes. There’s even a whole sequence that feels eerily similar to the T-Rex head in PS1 game, Dino Crisis as shown below.
Dominion then meshes this in with a constant barrage of set pieces which never seem to fit. I have written about the fact that Jurassic Park III’s story altered the portrayal of these creatures into monsters instead of, well, creatures, and the image of them running through the streets of Rome brings that idea into focus.
Two raptors chase after Owen who is on his motorcycle, attacks in broad daytime, in front of lots of unsuspecting people watching open mouthed as the raptors chase after nothing. There was no intelligence whatsoever, no sign of those raptors that use to pack attack from an angle, simply just a chase scene you would find in most of the monster movies. And the worst bit? Not a single word about the police.
Armies appear nowhere, Navies are nowhere and the police don’t appear at any stage. But then this is the kind of movie that if one starts to rationalize with any segment of the plot, they would rather be prone to an aneurism.
The movie, even taking into consideration all these factors, unforgivingly pushes the dinosaurs to the back-burner for most of the film, with one or two types showing up here and there during the 140 minutes that feel like 400.
Most of the cast do pretty good but the lines of the characters are poor on pretty much all levels. We do get a couple of comedic lines, but honestly most of this feels like Jeff Goldblum riffing most of the time and just going above the script only to show his talent.
It’s unfortunate because there are some glimpses of potentially engaging conversations that don’t really go anywhere. Towards the end, Alan Grant has an exchange with Owen about raptor training sessions that he conducted. “Oh, you’re the one who works with the raptors being trained!” “Yes I am!” Pretty bland. That’s the freaking limit of their conversation.
Wasn’t there too a major controversy revolving around the risks to this? What happened to that jaded Alan Grant who spoke about the threat posed by the intelligence of the raptors? What about him shouting at Owen for turning these ferocious killers into his toys? Never mind, we have one useless plot point left, on to the next one!
And that position eventually captures the essence of Jurassic World Dominion. This is a loud, spectacle heavy film which peters out well before the end credits come. Lacking creativity and opportunistically recycling old stuff for the sake of cheap thrills, this is one movie series which deserves to be extinct in the film world.
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