To start off, let me say this: I love the dinosaur movies, so Jurassic World: Dominion was right up my alley. Will everyone like it? No. Is it meant to make everyone like it? No! It’s a movie that preys on nostalgia like a velociraptor preys on white men with too much confidence. (Seriously, look at who they target throughout this franchise. Clever girls.) And yes, that’s a good thing. There are so many nods to the original Jurassic Park movie and so many moments that will have you going “Oh hey, I remember that” for no real reason other that to be nostalgic, and that’s fine! That’s what this entire trilogy is about.
Not to be that person but I did see a couple of first reactions talking about how this movie doesn’t pay off what the trilogy was leading up to. And, personally, I don’t get that reaction. The franchise promised a world with dinosaurs in it, and that’s pretty much what we got after Fallen Kingdom, and it just continued on in Dominion. What this franchise also promised was a world that upholds that original park to a higher standard and praises Dr. Ian Malcolm, Dr. Alan Grant, and Dr. Ellie Sattler, and that’s exactly what Jurassic World: Dominion does, and I love it for it.
