Notable Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura
Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, Isabella Sermon,
Campbell Scott, BD Wong, Omar Sy
One should always carry a suspended sense of disbelief when
going into a Jurassic Park film (or in the case of the latest ones, Jurassic
World.) Even the original, which remains a bonafide grade-A slab of
cinematic brilliance in the realm of blockbusters, requires its audience to not
question its many coincidences or shortcuts to set up its premise. Still, the
latest entry into the series, the sixth one overall, is a film that requires
its audience to fully lose consciousness to even attempt at following along
with its bloated story.
Jurassic World Dominion is a spectacle through and
through, although certainly not in the way that the ending of Jurassic
World: Fallen Kingdom promised. Crowds are apt to respond to director Colin
Trevorrow’s occasional visual wonder, cheap heroic one-liners, and ham-fisted
nods to the original run of Jurassic Park movies, but all of those are
at the expense of any kind of narrative weight. If anything, Jurassic World Dominion
proves to be the most perplexing film of the franchise in how poorly everything
is constructed despite the fact that it should have been the easiest film to
deliver on all levels.