Lamar Reviews - "Jurassic World: Dominion" (Airdate 6/17/2022)

Lamar Reviews - "Jurassic World: Dominion" (Airdate 6/17/2022)

I had two emotions about this Jurassic Park coming out. 1. Very excited because I have enjoyed all of the other five, especially when Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard showed up to breathe new life into the franchise. B. Apprehensive, since would be number 6. It is hard to take a franchise past 4 or 5. There are exceptions, James Bond, Star Trek, The Marvel Universe, and Harry Potter. You can say Batman, but with some ups and downs. Many franchises keep going until they bomb. Pirates of the Caribbean, Night at the Museum, Hangover, and Taken. Let’s be honest, I love my kids, but if my daughter does something stupid that I warned her about 3 times, she’s going to have to rescue herself, and start paying her own cell phone bill. I was worried that Jurassic was headed in the same direction. I wish I had been wrong.

The movie starts off a few years after the last one and dinosaurs have spread to every country. The world is trying to figure out their impact on the ecosystem and food supply. This allows this to be the first Woke Jurassic Park.

Owen and Clare, played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, are living in a cabin out in the woods where they are hiding Maisie, who is 14, and is played by Isabella Sermon. She was cloned and people are hunting her for her DNA. Maisie is pretty ticked off about being kept in the woods, which lets us know a kidnapping is coming. Good luck to the kidnappers, I’d rather fight a Raptor naked than try to put a 14-year-old girl in a car she doesn’t’ want to get into. While this is happening there are locust the size of small dogs eating all of the wheat in the world, except for the wheat fields that belong to BioSyn, a huge company that is sure to be the villain in all of this.

What we have is too many storylines when just the fact that dinosaurs are everywhere and eating everybody would have been enough. The fact that Laura Dern, as Ellie Sattler, Sam Neill, as Alan grant, and Jeff Goldblum, as Ian Malcolm from the original movies showed up, was a welcome addition to this, hopefully last, installment.

The movie is a way, way too long 2 hours and 26 minutes, Rated PG-13 for action, violence, and language.

The CGI is top notch. Some of the chase scenes are unrealistic, but pointing that out about a movie where CGI dinosaurs are doing the chasing, seems like an oxymoron. That said, the action scenes are exciting.

Chris Pratt does the same great job that he always does, and the chemistry between him and Bryce Dallas Howard is great. Jeff Goldblum is the coolest kind of weird, and an absolute pleasure to watch. Sam Neill at 68, looks fabulous, and it was fun seeing him get back together with Laura Dern’s character.

A more streamlined plot, and about 40 minutes less would have been better. I didn’t hate it, I’m glad I saw it, and if you liked the other Jurassic movies you should definitely see, but maybe wait till Netflix.

My Score: 3 Buds 

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