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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThe movie picks up four years after teenage clone Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) let a cache of dinosaurs out of her grandfather\u2019s compound and into the world. She now lives in an isolated cabin with former dino-keeper Owen (Chris Pratt) and redemption-seeking former exploiter Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard). She needs to be kept hidden away from bad people who want her clone DNA, but she wants to go on adventures and live life. She needs rescuing roughly one minute after striking out on her own, as she gets kidnapped trying to rescue a raptor, also captured for its DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is under attack in this movie, not so much from the original freed dinosaurs, but from dino\/locust hybrids that are eating all the planet\u2019s crops. That is, all the crops that aren\u2019t protected by the BioSyn corporation, led by long-cast-aside original \u201cJurassic Park\u201d baddie Lewis Dodgson (now played by Campbell Scott). It doesn’t take Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) long to figure out that the company is up to something shady, and she enlists the help of old friend Alan Grant (Sam Neill) to infiltrate its research facility\/dinosaur sanctuary and gather evidence of wrongdoing. The mission should go smoothly, since they have a man on the inside: Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) works for BioSyn, not-so-subtly trying to destroy the company from the inside out. Breaking away from the tour led by Ramsay (Mamoudou Athie) is easy enough, but the rest soon goes haywire in true \u201cJurassic\u201d fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Owen and Claire, for their part, track Maisie to Malta, where they infiltrate a shadowy dinosaur black market, complete with exotic steaks and people gambling on dino-fights. They\u2019re too late to retrieve the child, but they enlist the help of helicopter pilot Kayla (DeWanda Wise), who can give them a ride to, where else, BioSyn, where Maisie is being held by Dodgson and Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong), the latter of whom is having an uncharacteristic attack of conscience. First they have to get out of Malta, which involves one of the true urban-set action sequences of these movies, as they must navigate a treacherous urban grid Jason Bourne-style, evading dinosaurs that are being electronically manipulated into attacking them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The whole thing ends up at BioSyn, where the characters meet up (they all know each other because they\u2019ve read each other\u2019s books and articles, that\u2019s all the introduction they need) and have to navigate a dinosaur-filled compound together. These movies have a way of always coming down to the characters having to survive in a dinosaur-filled compound, and at this point the movie is really not unique from any of the others. But at least we get the relatively-creative chase scene in Malta, and I\u2019m more inclined to root for the established Dern, Neill, and Goldblum characters than the Pratt, Howard, and Sermon ones that never caught on. I\u2019m not seeing a lot of love for \u201cJurassic World Dominion\u201d from other critics, and I can understand why, with some clunky dialogue and overly-familiar action after Malta. But this movie was able to hold my interest just enough that I\u2019m willing to give it a recommendation. Given the disappointing nature of the rest of this trilogy, \u201cJurassic World Dominion\u201d is about as good a conclusion as we could have hoped to get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grade: B-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJurassic World Dominion\u201d is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action, some violence and language. Its running time is 146 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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