stephen_dines-79394

So, let's do another Jurassic movie. Let's make the creatures bigger, let's have more of them. Let's do away with any sense of reality at all. Story? Plot? Doesn't matter. All we need is dinosaurs various running riot, eating and trampling everyone in their wake. Anything else is superfluous.

And there you have it - Jurassic World: Dominion.

From the opening scene you don't buy into the creatures, the characters or any of the situations they get themselves into. In short it's a near two and a half hour bore-athon. The real shame is that actors who created characters the audience cared about signed up for this over-bloated nonsense.

Dear moviemakers: The story is the star of the show NOT the CGI. Please learn.

It's found footage, meets docu/mockumentary meets news coverage yada yada. You know, it's not terrible at all but what it is though is disjointed. What should have been done better is the clips should have been linked together far more effectively than it is. Instead it bounces around from found footage clip to news clip and back again in an almost haphazard way. I'd also criticise the lighting throughout and I know that it's not meant to be perfect as it is portraying amateur material but it does get annoying after a while. That said, there was a story there to be told and eventually it does wind it's way forward towards the ending. Do the humans survive or are we all going to die? Watch for yourself, I'm not saying.

If you'd asked me how many stars I'd rate this about a half an hour in then I'd have been considering seven. Sadly as it meandered into mid movie it slides into a six, then five and finally four. The opening premise is a tragic event, then five friends reconnect to resolve what had happened in the past so off they go to the woods where something mysterious appears. Soon after we get a bit of violence and gore and we are ready for take off......only it doesn't. Admittedly it did not go where I feared it might with the whole thing being a dream or imagining from a psychiatric patient but the chosen ending just comes across as plain stupid. Final act had me feeling that it was a waste of time putting it on in the first place. Shame.