Review of Jurassic World Dominion (2022) by Enerla — 20 Jun 2022

I am not a fan of the franchise. While the first Jurassic Park was amazing for visuals, revolutionary for the technical aspects of making the film, and a cult film for brining dinosaurs to the silver screen, the rest of the franchise looked more and more as soulless crash grabs.

Jurassic World Dominion has one redeeming factor: It doesn't want to be anything more than entertainment with plenty of action and some plotholes. No matter how stupid the film is they managed to deliver what they wanted to delivery, what they promised to deliver.

They recognized how the original novel behind the Jurassic Park franchise doesn't make sense, how the author is a technophobe, and some of his novels speak about how he fails to understand even everyday technology, well known practices and his fear comes from lack of understanding.

But you can't build several stories on lack of understanding without revealing those holes in the story. When te Jurassic World franchise decidedly wanted to look less realistic, and present us a dystopic scifi world, it gave them some freedom to justify some of the silly things.

Now with the last entry into the series they can't explain how dinosaurs would spread so fast, how they would adapt to everything, how noone would have time to prepare... This looks horribly bad for most of the viewers.

But once you understand this piece never wanted to be more than a mildly interesting action flick because that is the best they can do with source material, and if they decide to always accept plot holes, unrealistic elements for more fun, then all of these issues are natural.

For people who want to treat the whole franchise seriously, and want to think about any part of this action flick, it is horrible. For me, it is just pointless. If you can't make good films about an IP, because the IP is bad, you shouldn't make any film about it.

But of course this stupid movie is still profitable...