Friday 29 July 2022

Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

MILD SPOILERS BELOW

Where the previous entry felt more like a Resident Evil movie, this one feels more like an Uncharted movie. It takes about 80 minutes to actually get a character into a wild environment with dinosaurs in it - until then it's jetsetting espionage with sexy bounty hunters and spending far too much time getting all the current and legacy characters to the dino factory. This wouldn't be an issue if they had gone all in on the 'dinos have taken over America' angle, but this is mostly done in montages and the one time they do ask 'what would an action scene with dinosaurs be like in contemporary America', the answer is basically 'they'd run fast down streets at you'. They're hobbled by the fact that the set-up only involved a handful of dinosaurs escaping from one mainland location and they never come up with a way to get around that.

Meanwhile. the writing is dreadful, the fan service is lazy and clumsy, the action is badly-directed, there are big logic gaps, and characters make stupid decisions every few seconds.

Truly embarrassingly bad.

Rating: Awful.

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