After the last events, dinosaurs have spread across the world. Owen and Claire guard Maisie, the teenage clone of Benjamin Lockwood’s daughter, in a snowy cottage. When company Biosyn creates genetically modified giant locusts to eat all the crops except the ones bioengineered by Biosyn, a food crisis threatens the world, so Owen, Ckaire and Maisie join forces with original “Jurassic Park” crew Ellie, Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant to stop Biosyn and their CEO Dodgson.
The third installment in the botched “Jurassic Park” sequel trilogy, “Jurassic World Dominion” is a tiresome and muddled film which itself doesn’t even know what it wants to say nor where it is going. After a long pause, the three original cast crew from the first film were reunited again (Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum) and crossed over with the new characters from the new trilogy, but instead of using this historic opportunity to give them something special to do, they were just degraded to mere extras, and whatever they do, the new characters could have done instead of them, anyway. Ellie and Dr. Grant either just run or scream, but their charm and broader capacities were left somewhere in the first film. In fact, the story is so negligent towards them that they shouldn’t have even bothered returning. It treats them like they don’t matter. The storyline initially starts off promising, with some amusing depictions of dinosaurs now inhabiting the entire globe (a TV news clip mentions “37 dinosaur related deaths worldwide” with a video of a drivers dodging a Stegosaurus on the road and thus falling from the cliff in his vehicle; a married couple releases two pigeons, but a Pterosaur flies by and catches one), but then the screenwriters suddenly forget about this concept and instead focus on some plot involving giant engineered locusts eating crops, which feels terribly shoehorned, like an intruder which “steals” away the initial dinosaur plot. Instead of an upgrade, it is a downgrade, and one already knows that the main characters won’t be hurt, anyway, regardless how ostensibly dangerous the situation is. Alas, only the special and visual effects of the giant lizards are able to be a marvel, and one wonders if all the one-dimensional human characters are superfluous by this time. Maybe the whole movie should have just been without dialogues, only depicting dinosaurs.
Grade:+
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