Jurassic World Dominion

Trying to resurrect something from the distant past can be foolhardy and dangerous. That’s what filmmakers did by dusting off the original Jurassic Park cast to spice up the far inferior Jurassic World franchise. To be honest, it was nice to see those oldies, although they didn’t have much to do. What stands out here is not the par-for-the-course, scary dino chases, or the cool, wisecracking-under-fire repartee, but that there was actually an attempt to invoke a Michel Crichton-esque scientific commentary on the dangers of genetic modification. There’s a real dig at Monsanto here and I think Crichton would be pleased, because although it’s fiction, it’s scarily possible. Otherwise, CG dinosaurs roar, people run, yadda yadda yadda. Bryce Dallas Howard ends up in a swamp. She was a good sport about that.