Review of Jurassic World Dominion (2022) by Gamed2Long — 13 Jun 2022

I was pleasantly surprised. Its not a good movie. Its also not the worst one either. So go low expectations? The good? Most of the acting. Fun seeing high quality interesting CG dinosaurs. Better dinosaur variety compared to other films.

The bad? The plot. How the humans behave. How the dinosaurs behave. To the point I believe no-one attached to the script has even kept pets. Gone are the days of researching how animals behave and basing dinosaur behavior and scenes on that.

In this film most of the dinosaurs acted like that third henchman in TV fight scenes. The one that stands back and looks menacing until it is their turn to one on one fight the hero. Because the plot says so.

All the good guys had too much plot armor. Surviving a definitely fatal plane crash. Holding their hands up at times got dinosaurs (untrained) to back off. Not bite that off. The dinosaurs also had a sort of plot armor.

The kind often offered to women in action films. Hero can't kill/maim dinosaur. Only a bad guy or other dinosaur is allowed to do that. Sure dinosaurs eats humans and this one is trying to eat our hero.

But with all the plot armor neither side is taking damage from the fight. So many times! It took a lot of the excitement out of the film. Lead to several bizarre and less believable exchanges. There was fun and some nostalgia to be had.

But not good overall.