Jurassic World 3: Dominion by Colin Trevorrow is finally here to conclude the Jurassic Park as well as the Jurassic World saga, all of which began in 1993. After watching Jurassic World 3, it is safe to say that the franchise was at its all time high in the beginning itself, when it was being helmed by Steven Spielberg. Jurassic Park (1993) and Jurassic World (2015) are still the two best films in the franchise with The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) closely behind them. Jurassic World 3 is definitely not the best or even the good of the franchise, but it makes up for a rather entertaining watch. Here’s our review for this summer blockbuster and yes it consists of some minor spoilers, so beware.
WARNING: The following article contains mild spoilers
Rating – ★★★
Jurassic World 3 Brings Nothing New to the Table
While watching this film, one thing that continuously bugged my mind was that I have seen this all before and most of it, from this franchise itself. Colin Trevorrow picked everything that worked about the previous films and incorporated it brilliantly as well, but forgot to add anything new to Jurassic World 3. It is packed with action, jump scares and a lot of dinosaurs but we can’t help but exclaim “We’ve seen all that before, what’s new?” And the answer is nothing but yeah, it manages to keep us entertained and even bring back the nostalgia.
The film was filled with replications of iconic Jurassic sequences like dino-car chase, dino-bike chase, dino-bashing, dino-escape, and dino-petting. One particular bike chase sequence in the film, however, felt quite unrealistic and highly over-the-top. I absolutely adored one moment, though, where the signature T-Rex of the franchise passes through a giant loop replicating the logo of the Jurassic Franchise. That shot was brilliantly executed and would give chills to each and every fan of the franchise. The overall camerawork, VFX (especially CGI), and sound design of the film were excellent and make this film a must watch in theatres. The 3D effects however were minimal and quite unimpressive and I enjoyed the 3D IMAX Logo opening way more than any other effect in the film.
Jurassic World 3’s Plot is Really Bad
The entire plot of the movie seems like a joke and simply an excuse to bring together all these characters we used to love. In a gist, it is about this hybrid locust species whose needs to be altered so that they don’t eat all the crops and starve humans. Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom ended with the idea of how dinosaurs, humans and other species on planet need to coexist. This film is no way built up on that idea and didn’t showcase anything about how they actually learned to adapt to each other. Although, it ended with a montage of everyone coexisting, but no one knows how that happens.
Instead we are stuck with the story of our heroes, where the Jurassic Park team wants to take down Biosyn, and the Jurassic World team wants to rescue Maisie and Beta (Blue’s child). Both these teams’ paths intertwine in a much awaited moment but that happens only towards the end of the film. So, it really doesn’t have a huge impact or heart attached to it as essentially these two teams are disconnected. So, the movie actually did no effort to show us how we learned to coexist but we were forced to believe so in the end. But as long as giant CGI dinos bash each other, people, or things, who cares right?
Stellar Performances Save the Film
And the award for the best performance goes to the… T-REX! RAAAAR! Just kidding, the cast ensemble of Jurassic World 3 basically saved this film and makes a silly plot seem acceptable. Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Sam Neill, and Laura Dern delivered passionate performances in whatever role they were given, whereas Jeff Goldblum mostly served as the comic relief. They received excellent support from rest of the cast as well, and that made all the messy things happening in the film entertaining to watch.
As for the characters, there really wasn’t much character development for humans or even the dinosaurs. I think the most character development in the film was that of the T-Rex, as it once again established itself as the apex predator in the world. Isabella Sermon’s Maisie had a little bit of character development as well, as she learned about her origin and accepted Owen and Claire’s love at the end of the film. That was pretty much it when it comes to the characters as all of them remained who they are, and have remained that since the beginning of the franchise. Ahh, how can I forget about the forced romance between Ellie and Alan, which was just there to strike the nostalgic chord of the fans.
Final Verdict – All in all, Jurassic World: Dominion manages to entertain the fans and provide a soft conclusion to the franchise, but ends up feeling hollow and forgettable while leaving little to no impact on the viewers.
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