Dominion is a somewhat lazy final chord of an epic dino series

To save the Earth we must learn to coexist harmoniously with all other organisms Jurassic World: Dominion repeatedly. So we shouldn’t be shocked if a brontosaurus walks into the business park, or if a pteranodon flies in our hair. Since the catastrophic events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) are the dinosaurs among us, and they’re never going away.

A bit cumbersome, a film that uses digital dinosaurs for an ecological-ethical message, but it produces beautiful pictures. See the pastoral final images of giant reptiles peacefully grazing with elephants, swimming with whales and soaring toward sunset in a flock of wild geese.

With these natural impressions, director Colin Trevorrow also brings a solemn final chord to an entire film series: Dominion is the completion of the Jurassic Worldtrilogy, uniting the protagonists of that series with the heroes of the three Jurassic Parkmovies (1993-2001). It’s a pleasant reunion with veterans Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who here infiltrate gene technology company annex dinosaur reserve Biosyn. That Monsanto-esque concern of slicker Dodgson (Campbell Scott) seems to be responsible for a world-threatening giant locust plague. Thus, Grant and co – eventually – meet a velociraptor trainer and a dinosaur rights activist, whose cloned adoptive child has been kidnapped by Dodgson.

Numerous Park– and Worldstorylines and motifs are tied together by Trevorrow and co-screenwriter Emily Carmichael, in a rather lazily written script that uses one deus (or dino) ex machina after another to keep things afloat. Fortunately, the makers put the necessary creativity into the spectacle shows, with the chase through Malta’s capital Valletta, shot in dusty sunlight, as the highlight. Very nice to see the heroes à la Jason Bourne or Mission: Impossible jump from roof to roof, cruising through tight streets by motorbikewhile not being chased by terrorists but atrociraptors.