Jurassic World: Dominion
Came out; 2022
Time; 2 hours 27 minutes
Watched: On Demand
Rating; TV-MA
IMDB Rating; PG-13 for intense sequences of action, some violence and language
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Chris Pratt as Owen Grady
Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing
Laura Dern as Ellie Sattler
Sam Neill as Alan Grant
Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm
DeWanda Wise as Kayla Watts
Mamoudou Athie as Ramsay Cole
Isabella Sermon as Maisie Lockwood
Campbell Scott as Lewis Dodgson
BD Wong as Henry Wu
Story Line;
After surviving the destruction of Isla Nubla, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing took in young Maisie Lockwood. They've been living under the radar to protect Maisie, but she feels like a prisoner. When Maisie goes missing, Owen and Claire set out to find her, and eventually confront Lewis Dodgson, owner of Biosyn. Paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, Paleontologist Alan Grant, and Chaotician Ian Malcolm set out to expose Dodgson's schemes
Thoughts;
I was so excited for this movie, dinosaurs living among people, the original people along with the new ones, seriously, it had all the makings of a great sequel, but it just wasn't there for me. I found this to be rather boring and not even close to the magic that was Jurassic World or even Jurassic Park.
This movie had to do more with giant locusts and finding the cause than anything. Yes there were dinosaurs, yes there was Blue, T-Rex and other giant amazing looking creatures, but the storyline was awful!
I was disappointed in the end, it really lost much of the original magic that we came to know and love
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
Four
years after dinosaurs have been set loose on the mainland, humans
have had to adjust to their presence. The Mosasaurus is seen pulling
a fishing boat down after grabbing its cage of fish with its jaws.
Many people have died from dino-related incidents, and while many
think the prehistoric animals should be all killed off, others have
found a way in the black market to illegally sell and distribute
captured all of Prehistoric Animals. The government hands the reins
to BioSyn Genetics, a company led by Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott)
with the promise to keep the dinosaurs held at a sanctuary in Italy's
Dolemite Mountains to further research them for pharmaceutical
purposes. News coverage also notes that Maisie Lockwood (Isabella
Sermon) has disappeared after her true nature as a clone was made
public.
At a facility in Nevada, Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas
Howard) and Zia Rodriguez (Daniella Pineda) save a baby dinosaur from
an illegal breeding site. They join Franklin Webb (Justice Smith) as
they escape in a van, but security guards chase after them until the
three manage to lose them. Franklin and Zia tell Claire they can no
longer keep this type of work up, and while they support Claire and
her endeavors, they are moving onto jobs that are safer for
them.
Somewhere near the snowy mountains in Nevada, Owen Grady
(Chris Pratt) is riding a horse to wrangle a large dinosaurs. After
he's done, he goes back to the cabin that he shares with Claire and
Maisie, as he and Claire are now her adoptive parents. Although
Maisie likes to stray from home and witness the dinosaurs on land,
Claire and Owen try to keep her hidden for fear that someone is after
her. This causes her to get annoyed with them, and she has also
become curious about Charlotte Lockwood, whom she was cloned from.
Sure enough, mercenaries led by Rainn Delacourt (Scott Haze) are
spying on them in the woods, Maisie being their target.
Not
far from the cabin, Blue the raptor has asexually reproduced a child
(who Maisie later names Beta). They go hunting together.
In
Texas, two children are chased by an enormous swarm of locusts. This
is brought to the attention of paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura
Dern). She investigates the farm where the locusts attacked and ate
up all the crops. Ellie is told by the children's mother that the
neighboring crops, which were untouched by the locusts, are planted
by BioSyn.
Ellie reunites with Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), who
is working with other aspiring paleontologists. She brings a captured
locust to him and explains the situation, fearing that if they
spread, they may wreck the food chain. Alan and Ellie figure that
BioSyn must have made them so that their crops are all that remains.
Ellie wants to get DNA from another locust at the BioSyn sanctuary
and asks for Alan's help. She was already invited by their old
friend, Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). Despite showing some
hesitance, Alan ultimately agrees to join.
Back at the cabin,
Blue and Beta come upon Owen, Claire, and Maisie. They are all
surprised to see Blue has become a mother. The mercenaries soon make
their move and capture Beta. Maisie rides her bike across the bridge
and is also taken by the villains. Owen sees this and gets Claire to
go after them. Claire says she knows who can help them.
Claire
contacts Franklin, who now works for the CIA. He helps them get info
on Delacourt and points them to Owen's former coworker at Jurassic
World, Barry Sembene (Omar Sy), who can help take them to wherever
the mercenaries are taking Maisie and Beta.
Alan and Ellie
arrive at the sanctuary and meet Ramsay Cole (Mamoudou Athie),
BioSyn's Head of Communications. He introduces them to Dodgson, who
promises they are working on something revolutionary and
groundbreaking. Alan and Ellie are escorted to find Ian giving a
lecture. Afterwards, he joins them and discreetly tells Ellie that
the locusts are indeed part of a sinister scheme by BioSyn.
Meanwhile, Dodgson meets with Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong), who has since
become remorseful of his actions in helping keep these experiments
going, as he notes that the locusts have grown at an alarming
rate.
In Malta, an associate of Dodgson's, Sonoya Santos
(Dichen Lachman), calls him to say that Maisie and Beta have been
transported separately to BioSyn HQ. Owen and Claire also arrive and
reunite with Barry. He brings them to a black market dinosaur ring,
where animals are being sold, eaten, or forced to fight. Claire meets
Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise), a pilot who flies for the vendors. She
warns Claire about messing with anyone there, but eventually agrees
to help Claire find Maisie. As this happens, Owen and Barry stay
hidden and witness Delacourt meeting with Santos to smuggle
Atrociraptors. The two confront and fight Delacourt and his men. Owen
orders him to say where Maisie and Beta are, and he just gives him
Santos' name before he gets eaten by dinosaurs in the fighting ring.
Claire fights Santos and learns that Maisie is headed for BioSyn, and
she outruns a loose dinosaur before joining Kayla. Barry arrests
Santos, but not before she sics one of her dinosaurs on Owen, who is
riding a motorcycle to catch up with Claire and Kayla. He manages to
board Kayla's plane just as she is getting ready to take off with
Claire, and Owen uses the motorcycle to knock the dino off the ramp
and into the ocean.
Maisie arrives at HQ and meets Wu. He
explains to her that while she is a clone of Charlotte's, she is also
her actual daughter because she gave birth to her. Maisie watches
video footage of Charlotte (Elva Trill), and sees when she was
pregnant with Maisie. Charlotte suffered from a genetic disease, but
she managed to alter Maisie's DNA to remove all traces of the
disease. Wu hopes that by studying Maisie's DNA, he can reverse the
locust outbreak by altering their DNA.
Alan and Ellie sneak
into the containment room for the locusts to get a DNA sample, just
as Maisie tries to escape with Beta. Dodgson sounds the alarm, which
causes the locusts to swarm around Alan and Ellie, but they manage to
get out safely. They meet Maisie, who knows who they are. She joins
them as they run. They are found by Ramsay, who agrees to help them
because he finds BioSyn's work to be unethical. He sends them away in
a monorail to safety. Ellie tells Maisie that she knew Charlotte as a
student, and says she was a brilliant and kind person.
In the
air, Kayla's plane is attacked by a real Quetzalcoatlus, forcing
Claire to eject and fall into the trees after they rip her parachute.
Owen and Kayla crash into a nearby ice lake. They attempt to safely
make their way across it but are chased by another dinosaur. The two
make it across just in time and head off to relocate Claire. She gets
down from the tree but has to quietly evade a Pyroraptor that has
been stalking her in the forest. Owen and Kayla hide as the T-Rex
makes her appearance to eat, but she is held off by a Giganotosaurus,
a much larger predator. They manage to get to Claire.
Alan,
Ellie, and Maisie are making their way through caverns and find
dinosaurs attacking, prompting them to run until they make it
outside. Meanwhile, Ian tears Dodgson a new one for his actions, and
Dodgson fires him. Ian works with Ramsay to get back to Ian's
friends. He helps them escape the dinosaurs by freeing them from the
enclosure. Dodgson then sets fire to the locust lab to destroy
evidence. The flaming locusts break free and begin flying out into
the open. Alan, Ellie, Ian, and Maisie attempt to outrun a large
dinosaur in a van but are knocked down a hill. Luckily, they land
near Owen, Claire, and Kayla, reuniting the former two with Maisie.
Claire also gets to meet Ellie while Owen meets Alan. The group is
then stalked by the Giganotosaurus, who almost gets Maisie, but she
escapes. Ian fends it off by throwing a burning cloth into its
mouth.
While the heroes work on an escape plan, BioSyn starts
to burn to the ground, forcing the employees to flee. Dodgson
attempts to make off with his work, and Ramsay tells him off one last
time before leaving. Dodgson attempts to get away in the monorail,
but is cornered by a trio of Dilophosaurus, who make a meal out of
him. Beta comes upon the heroes and is sedated so they can safely
bring her along. They are also found by Wu, who has found a way to
alter the locusts' DNA to stop the spread. Just as the group prepares
their leave, the Giganotosaurus reappears, but is then caught between
the T-Rex and a Therizinosaurus. The humans flee to avoid the dino
fight, and it ends when the T-Rex pushes the Giganotosaurus into the
Therizinosaurus's claws.
Upon returning to safety, Alan and
Ellie rekindle their romance and later head to Washington DC to
testify against BioSyn. Wu's work is a success and stops the locust
spread. Owen, Claire, and Maisie return home and reunite Beta with
Blue. Before retreating back into the forest, Blue shares one last
look with Owen.
One final voiceover proclaims that dinosaurs
and humans must adapt in order to co-exist.
