Colin Trevorrow, who rebooted the franchise in 2015 with Jurassic World, hasn't made the most profound or ground-breaking work, but Jurassic World Dominion is a deft, proudly excessive piece of old-fashioned big-screen entertainment. For that reason alone, it's a T-Rex-sized step up from the previous instalment, 2018's Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom.īut that's not all it has to recommend it. Jurassic World Dominion is the first of the sequels to have its own strong, separate identity. Too many of the Jurassic films have taken us on trips to tropical islands where everything seems fine until suddenly it doesn't seem fine, and none of them has matched the 1993 original, directed by Steven Spielberg. I wouldn't be surprised if 50 pages of the screenplay were ripped straight from a dusty unused script called "Indiana Jones and the Land that Time Forgot". In one scene, Alan is in a rocky tunnel, brandishing a flaming torch, and he risks being eaten by a dinosaur because he wants to retrieve his trusty hat. Indiana Jones's DNA is particularly dominant. In other words, the sixth and supposedly final Jurassic film has been souped up with the genes of James Bond, Jason Bourne and other such globe-trotting adventurers. They have also taken all the usual scenes of dinosaurs sneaking around jungles, and combined them with shoot-outs, plane crashes, motorbike chases through exotic cities, and undercover missions in high-tech secret bases. They have taken the heroes from the current trilogy, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), and mixed in our old friends from the original trilogy, Alan (Sam Neill), Ellie (Laura Dern) and Ian (Jeff Goldblum). The Jurassic films – that is, the three Jurassic Parks and the three Jurassic Worlds – are all about people knitting together DNA from different species, and the makers of Jurassic World Dominion have done some gene-splicing of their own.
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