Jurassic World Dominion
First screened in June 2025
Director: Colin Trevorrow. Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isabelle Sermon, Chris Pratt, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Campbell Scott, Mamoudou Athie, DeWanda Wise, B.D. Wong, Omar Sy, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, Scott Haze, Jasmine Chiu. Screenplay: Emily Carmichael and Colin Trevorrow (based on a story by Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow and on the original Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton, the way mold is based on an orange rind). In Brief:
Hilarious, all the horror at gene-splicing, when the filmmakers have cloned and grafted JP '93 to death.
VOR:①
May the nation of toddler paleontologists-in-training rise up against me, but I see no value here, even with mild barking at agritech run wild.
I watched Jurassic World Dominion in the only appropriate company: a young, dino-obsessed nephew who doesn't give a triceratops crap if the movie is any good. I truly did not expect so many fast-cut action scenes around global sites, people as well as dinosaurs leaping from one Maltese balcony to the next, with all kinds of stunt driving below. By this stage, the utterly shapeless, overblown, and nonsensical movie has transitioned from being The Lost World: Monsanto for a draggy first hour to The Deinonychus Ultimatum, and I don't know which is more absurd. And we still have at least another 90 minutes left, which at least feature fewer locusts and ID badges and orientalist cockfighting rings and more actual dinosaurs. Right away, I was wishing so many of the o.g. prehistoric beasts hadn't been phased out over time by new species I don't recognize and don't really believe in, like Pyroraptor and Giganotosaurus and Chris and Bryce Dallas and Quetzocoatlus. But then some of the old crowd lumbered back in, and nothing got any better. Yikes! Grade:D+
