{"id":12231,"date":"2025-06-25T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=12231"},"modified":"2025-06-25T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:38:14","slug":"jurassic-world-dominion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/06\/25\/jurassic-world-dominion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic World Dominion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong> (2022)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Sci-Fi-Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 146 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of action, some violence, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Colin Trevorrow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Emily Carmichael and Colin Trevorrow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Michael Giacchino \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cinematography: John Schwartzman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 10, 2022 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, DeWanda Wise, Isabella Sermon, Mamoudou Athie, Campbell Scott, BD Wong, Omar Sy, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, Scott Haze, Dichen Lachman, Kristoffer Polaha, Caleb Hearon, Freya Parker, Alexander Owen, Ahir Shah, Elva Trill.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $376.8M (US)\/$1B (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Maybe it caught me in a rare good mood, but I actually enjoyed Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong>, the third and final part of the follow-up trilogy to the original Jurassic Park films. I\u2019ll concede that the \u201cWOW!\u201d factor of Steven Spielberg\u2019s original 1993 blockbuster has long since vanished from the franchise. What he pulled off with the innovative FX, mixing CGI (in its infancy) and practical effects, has become commonplace nearly three decades later. There\u2019s nothing really new in Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong>, but it still manages to entertain even if it doesn\u2019t explore some of the more interesting ideas it brings up in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What really has some people amped up about Jurassic World Dominion <\/strong>is the return of the original Jurassic Park stars, Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum as paleontologists Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm respectively. They figure into a crowded plot that I\u2019m going to try and simplify for you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As you know, the villains in these movies always have an evil corporation behind their nefarious action. In this case, it\u2019s an outfit called BioSyn whose heinous CEO Dr. Lewis Dodgson (Scott, The Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2) has created a super-breed of locusts for the purposes of creating a worldwide famine by devouring any and all crops not grown with their seeds. Ellie is tasked with infiltrating their main facility and obtaining a DNA sample to turn over to the proper authorities. She asks her former colleague Alan to accompany her. As it so happens, Dr. Malcolm works there in an advisory capacity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Meanwhile, teenage Maisie Lockwood (Sermon) now lives with Owen Grady (Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2) and Claire Dearing (Howard, The Help) in a secluded cabin in the woods. They\u2019ve taken it on themselves to protect her by keeping her out of sight, something that doesn\u2019t allow her much of a social life. It\u2019s necessary though because she\u2019s being sought by baddies who want to collect the bounty being offered by bigger baddies. If you saw Fallen Kingdom, you know why they\u2019re interested in her. Owen\u2019s favorite raptor Blue lives in the nearby woods with her asexually reproduced offspring. Of course, the company would like to get their hands on it too. As you can probably guess, both Maisie and the little raptor are caught and taken away. Owen and Claire go after them. Guess where they end up.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s a lot more going on, but these are the main plotlines with which you need concern yourself. Other characters, like pilot-for-hire Kayla Watts (Wise, She\u2019s Gotta Have It) and BioSyn employee Ramsay Cole (Athie, The Get Down), figure into Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong>. However, I don\u2019t want to bog you down with too much info. It\u2019s best to just go in and enjoy the ride. In the right frame of mind, it\u2019s pretty fun.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I won\u2019t lie, Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong> is nowhere near as good as Jurassic Park or Jurassic World. On the other hand, it\u2019s better than Jurassic Park III. At 146 minutes, it runs longer than it needs to. Colin Trevorrow, who also wrote and directed the first JW flick, could have tightened things up a bit. However, I\u2019m willing to cut Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong> a bit of slack. Here\u2019s why. Even though it brings up big ideas, it doesn\u2019t waste a lot of time on them. Instead, it gives the audience what they\u2019ve really come to see, dinosaur action. There\u2019s a great deal of it too. They run, roar, chase, fight each other and go chomp-chomp on humans. There\u2019s one great chase scene in Milan involving a raptor running and jumping across rooftops a la Jason Bourne.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The cast looks like they\u2019re having fun, so why even bother criticizing their performances. Honestly, there\u2019s really nothing to criticize. They all turn in the types of performances demanded by a movie of this kind. I will say it\u2019s great to see the OGs back for one more hurrah. Also, I am now 100% convinced that Pratt should inherit the role of Indiana Jones from Harrison Ford. He\u2019s a great action hero. One more thing, I\u2019m happy not to see Howard trying to outrun dinosaurs in heels. What the hell was up with that anyway?<\/p>\n

\u00a0The special effects in Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong>, while hardly groundbreaking, are good. Maybe they\u2019re not quite as convincing as the ones we marveled at in \u201993, but they\u2019ll do. I\u2019m not going to say a lot more about Jurassic World Dominion<\/strong>. I had fun watching it. Sure, it\u2019s not perfect and it\u2019s too long. But it\u2019s summer and I just wanted to have a good time at the movies just like when I was a teen. It\u2019s not the same as the great blockbusters from the 80s and early 90s, but it comes darn close. I can\u2019t ask for much more than that.<\/p>\n

P.S. No reason to stick around through the end credits. There are NO extra scenes.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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