Film Review – Jurassic World: Dominion

2015’s “Jurassic World” was a major production, but its success wasn’t guaranteed, arriving 14 years after the “Jurassic Park” series petered out. The feature was hoping to reignite interest in the world of dinosaurs and DNA headaches, to see if viewers were still open to watch CGI-laden chaos featuring fearsome beasts. The experiment worked, with audiences making it the highest-grossing installment of the series, giving the brand name a fresh sense of urgency. It wasn’t the most creatively daring effort, but “Jurassic World” was tremendous fun and visually arresting, setting up a new trilogy focusing on the trials of a planet inhabited by both dinosaurs and humans. 2018’s “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” inched the series in this direction, trying out different locations and stakes to maintain dramatic momentum. And now “Jurassic World: Dominion” arrives to provide a payoff…but it doesn’t, really, with co-writers Emily Carmichael and Colin Trevorrow (who also returns to direct after his work on “Jurassic World”) keeping things familiar while trying to stage a grand finale. That’s not to suggest “Dominion” is dull, far from it at times, but nostalgia and repetition tend to dominate this endeavor, which goes through the “Jurassic Park” motions, with big dino action always more engaging than the same old war of genetic control. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com