‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Review: Reuniting the ‘Park’ Stars Just Makes This ‘World’ Look Shabbier
thewrap.com“Jurassic World Dominion” is that it’s a metaphor unto itself; the ongoing moral of the film series is that mixing the wrong strains of DNA leads to disaster, and that lesson is writ large in the awkward and clumsy attempt to graft the stars of the original “Jurassic Park” onto the “Jurassic World” movies, a combo platter that only serves to make the latter-day protagonists even less interesting by comparison.The other generous read, although it’s damning with faint praise, is to call this the best “Jurassic” movie since the original in 1993, but that doesn’t mean this one’s not, much like its predecessors, a hot mess.
It’s just a hot mess with some effectively scary bits, a cool car chase and Laura Dern.“Dominion” spends so much time jumping back and forth between the “Park” cast and the “World” plot that one can only hope editor Mark Sanger (“Gravity”) received combat pay.
We’re left with a film with a terminal case of “Meanwhile…”The film opens with a witty NowThis News segment showing life on Earth following the events of “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” in which dinosaurs escaped their theme-park captivity and integrated themselves into the planet at large.
It’s been a somewhat smoother integration than you might imagine — only 37 human deaths in the previous year — but still a complication for mankind and the environment.
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