Jurassic World Dominion’s Opening Scene Secretly Acknowledged A Huge Flaw

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While Jurassic World Dominionhad its problems, the movie’s first scene at least acknowledged one of its biggest issues via a secret, subtle in-joke. Jurassic World Dominion scored big at the box office, but the sequel didn’t wow critics. This didn’t come as a major shock, since the final movie in the Jurassic World trilogy was facing an uphill battle from the beginning.

Between the struggle to find screen time for both Jurassic Park legacy characters and Jurassic World’s returning cast, the tricky job of finding a new angle for the franchise, and handling the Chris Pratt backlash, Jurassic World 3needed to solve a lot of issues at once. The sequel wasn’t helped by the ending of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, a wild twist that saw dinosaurs unleashed on human civilization. However, for all of its flaws, Jurassic World Dominion did acknowledge the difficult bind that the franchise was left in during the movie’s opening scene.

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In the faux-documentary prologue produced by NowThis, Jurassic World Dominion clarified that the world has been overrun with dinosaurs and humans now co-exist uneasily with the prehistoric beasts. During the sequence, an infographic that is briefly seen onscreen shows that reopening Jurassic Park was the public’s least favorite option when it came to handling the threat of dinosaurs being let loose on humanity. Jurassic World 3 returning to Jurassic Park’s roots was both necessary for the legacy sequel and a tricky proposition, making this moment a clever way of tacitly acknowledging that there was no way to simply bring back Jurassic World and Jurassic Park’s original conceit in the trilogy's final movie.

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