Jurassic World Dominion Review - Better As A Goodbye Than A Movie

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Jurassic World Dominion is a goodbye to the Jurassic series, and it’s a fond farewell, if not always a successful one. It uses its characters well enough, but wastes an interesting premise by retreading old ground, building set pieces that go nowhere, and weaving together two different yet connected stories that I don’t think a single person in the audience will care about.

First, the fan service. There’s one moment with a circle that goes a little too far (you will know it when you see it), but most of them are earned and the callbacks feel witty and precise, not just a scattergun of generic Jurassic Park references pandering to our collective nostalgia However, at times I think it overestimates what the fans care about. As well as the return of Alan, Ellie, and Ian (plus Owen and Claire), Dominion also brings back Maisie, Henry, Sophie, Blue, Zia, Dodson, Franklin, and Barry, while Lowrey was cut from the script because of pandemic difficulties. And I know you don’t remember all of those because I bet you don’t even know which one I made up.

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If you guessed Maisie was the fake one, you were very decidedly wrong. She is in fact the main character of Jurassic World Dominion, reprising her role as ‘weird clone girl’ from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Her story is retconned here, which makes centring on her even stranger, and she is given a thematic link to Blue (Blue guessers, you were wrong too), a character you just can’t make me care about even after three movies of effort.

There’s also a subplot concerning a plague of locusts who will soon destroy all food on Earth, the importance of which seems to rise and fall as the plot dictates,