Jurassic World Dominion

Name: Jurassic World Dominion
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Genre: Adventure
Released: 2022-06-01
Duration: 2h 27m
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum

PG-13 Jun 01, 2022 Adventure · Nearly two and half hours that feels every minute of its bloated length.

Critics reject broadly

5.6/10

IMDb

28%

Rotten

38/100

Metacritic

★

2.29/5

Letterboxd

🎬

6.6/10

TMDB

Before you watch

Final film in the sequel trilogy, brings back original cast alongside newer characters

Rewatch

one and done

Attention

half watch ok

Phone-check

high

The brief

The franchise stumbles to its most bloated conclusion yet, burning through 147 minutes of corporate committee filmmaking that somehow makes dinosaurs boring. Trevorrow doubles down on everything wrong with the modern trilogy while cramming in legacy characters who feel like they're visiting from a much better movie. Chris Pratt continues his reign as cinema's blandest action hero, somehow making velociraptor whispering feel like a day job, while the film drowns genuine thrills in endless exposition about locust swarms and biotech conspiracies. The action beats land with all the excitement of a theme park ride you've been on too many times, complete with that same mechanical predictability. This is for die-hard franchise completists and anyone who thought the previous Jurassic World movies needed more talking and less dinosaur mayhem.

corporate franchise fatigue dinosaur spectacle legacy sequel disappointment bloated blockbuster theme park mechanics exposition heavy

The verdict

If you're a devoted Jurassic franchise completist who needs to see how the trilogy ends and doesn't mind excessive runtime for nostalgia's sake, this delivers familiar dinosaur spectacle with returning legacy characters. If you want lean storytelling, genuine thrills, or dinosaurs that feel dangerous rather than mechanical, you'll find this bloated sequel more tedious than exciting.