Jurassic World: Dominion
And it gets worse. The only thing holding Dominion up from being a sub-5 rating is the fact that they somehow convinced Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill to join this hot pile of garbage, and for all of their too little screentime, they were fantastic. But the plot and logic of this film is an absolute mess. They introduce some cool new dinos but it’s by this film that you realize the excessive hyper aggressiveness of every single dino they encounter gets grating. Never more so is this obvious than when they run into therizinosaurus, which is a herbivore, but you’d never know that from the film, as it acts like any other carnivore. But logic left this franchise a few movies back I’m afraid. One more to go…
-Z
This feels like rock bottom for the Jurassic franchise. While the reappearance of the original Jurassic trio definitely adds something here (and helps my rating a bit), this movie felt very unsatisfying and confusing. The Mission: Impossible-esque rescue mission feels a bit cheap. There are a lot of pieces to the plot and none of them are really answering the question that the movie feels like it is trying to answer - how can dinosaurs and humans coexist? And at this point, really, after 6 movies, we should know the answer: they cannot.
-E
