Category: Bad

Messages and Meaning

“Jurassic World: Dominion” doesn’t know why it exists. It’s a movie about everything but dinosaurs—the mafia, human cloning, mutated cockroaches. The story jumps from one crazy scene to another, and the characters appear more like guest stars than real people with goals.

“Jurassic World: Dominion” shares with us the revolutionary ideas that nature is beautiful and big corporations are evil. And that’s it. Nothing that surpasses the previous films, nothing that enriches us. The dialogue is quite weak, and even the more developed characters from the first film, like Ian and Alan, don’t offer a single interesting idea.

“Jurassic World: Dominion” adds no value to its own universe or to the audience. And everything would have remained the same if we simply skipped this movie. Or maybe it would even be better.

Plot

A jumble of random plotlines that have everything in common with everything else but not with Jurassic Park.

Family drama in an average household, where the father is overly strict, the teenage daughter is rebelling, and the mother is long-suffering. Why are we watching this?

Mafia interests and black market dealings in the underworld intertwine, leading to races between dinosaurs and motorcycles in an urban setting. Why are we watching this?

An evil corporation produces genetically modified grasshoppers to control the world’s food supply and get rich dishonestly. Why are we watching this?

“Jurassic World: Dominion” looks as though a few dinosaurs were accidentally let loose from another movie and ran through the scenes of a mediocre action flick.

The only somewhat decent story involves Blue and the return of her baby, but even there, the plot is so clichéd and predictable that it ultimately becomes slightly tedious.

Characters

“Jurassic World: Dominion” makes the bold decision to bring back the characters from the first film. Unfortunately, however, it doesn’t make use of a single one of them, instead assigning them the task of simply hanging around until the end credits roll.

Ellie, Ian, and Alan – Every one of the legendary original characters returns, but only to mark their presence. They have no purpose, nor anything interesting to do. Their presence is unnecessary and feels forced.

Dr. Henry Wu – Is this the end for the great scientist who brought the dinosaurs back to life? Releasing a grasshopper from a box…. A pathetic and undignified ending for a genius on the edge of morality.

Owen – He was the usual savior and did his job, but for a man who has a special connection with nature and animals in a way incomprehensible to others, Owen remained too ordinary, and his character needed more depth to be fully realized.

Claire – From a ruthless businesswoman to an eco-terrorist to a helpless housewife. Claire is one of the most absurd and illogical characters in any film series.

Important details

• The scene with Claire underwater and the roaring dinosaur above her is exceptionally well-filmed

• When the feathered dinosaur dives under the ice, it’s a great and unexpected moment that was unfortunately ruined by the trailer

• Why are we pretending that locusts are dangerous to humans? And why do they fly in swarms while on fire…

• Yet another silly scene where giant dinosaurs fight, and Rex teams up with another to defeat the bigger dinosaur. It made no sense the first time, and it makes no sense now.

• The grand climax, in which all the heroes from the new trilogy meet up with everyone from the old trilogy to fight together against the greatest predator in Earth’s history, is neither grand nor a climax.

Films in the series: Jurassic Park The Lost World: Jurassic Park