Jurassic World Dominion (Trevorrow) 2022

Did we really need another Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movie? Of course not. Are they going to keep making them throughout eternity because people love dinosaurs? Absolutely.

The big draw in this version of the story was always going to be the giant family reunion. We got a glimpse of Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, (affiliate link) but this final film in the Trevorrow trilogy brings Laura Dern back as Dr. Ellie Sattler and Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant. Throw in a bit of a redemption story for Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong) and pretty much everyone that survived Spielberg’s original 1993 (affiliate link) film is here.

​Chris Pratt returns as Owen Grady, now in a full relationship with Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard). This time around they are tasked with protecting Maisie (Isabella Sermon), a young clone that nefarious people want to get their hands on. She is predictably captured in the first 10 minutes of the film, but proves to be resourceful as the rest of the cast joins forces to rescue her.

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​Despite the star-studded cast from previous films, two new additions shone brightest for me. DeWanda Wise plays Kayla Watts who aids the crew by supplying an airplane to the new remote dinosaur sanctuary, while Mamoudou Athie plays Ramsey Cole, a corporate lackey of the new villain who ultimately helps the heroes by turning against his employer.

​I mentioned above that we get some redemption for Dr. Wu and while it’s nice to see Wong in the film yet again, I had a hard time connecting this newly repentant Wu to the one who was seemingly at the heart of all the evil of the previous film.

As with most franchises like this, the film sticks with the formula that has proven to work over the last three decades. In that respect, there is nothing new, not even any really crazy new dinosaurs. But if you love the dinosaurs, and let’s face it, who doesn’t, this will surely scratch that itch better than anything else out there.

6 out of 10