Review of Jurassic World Dominion (2022) by Compi24 — 14 Jun 2022

Wasn't really sure things could get much worse than "Fallen Kingdom," but here we are. "Jurassic World: Dominion" is as much of a soulless, disjointed and frustrating experience as you've been hearing it is, with some truly crushing mediocrity on display in the narrative department.

This is a movie that hedges all of its promotional material — and its opening montage, to boot — on the central question posed by the conclusion of its predecessor; can dinosaurs and humans truly coexist? In that, you're expecting what? Probably a movie involving the characters at hand trying to grapple with dinosaurs in a civilized environment, right? Welp.

What we do get is yet another movie featuring a cadre of characters traipsing around a failing wildlife sanctuary, followed by an ending montage that would have you believe the movie just answered the aforementioned question at hand, even though it really, truly hasn't in any way, shape or form.

In fact, the central plot of this movie is split between two groups of characters — Chris Pratt's Owen Grady, Bryce Dallas Howard's Claire Dearing and Isabella Sermon's Maisie Lockwood, and then Sam Neill's Dr.

Alan Grant, Laura Dern's Dr. Ellie Sattler and Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm — leading to a wholly bifurcated feeling to things. These two narratives never really coalesce in a cohesive, natural or satisfying way.

More importantly, the split time ends up betraying every character in the film with an ultimate lack of development. Add on some of the most confoundingly agitating retcons I've seen in a franchise film in quite some time and you get a real disappointment at the theater, dinosaur fights and legacy character appearances be damned.