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Colin TrevorrowCinematography:
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Michael GiacchinoCast:
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, Dichen Lachman, Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith (more)VOD (2)
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From Jurassic World architect and director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live - and hunt - alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures. (Universal Pictures US)
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Well, they’ve killed Jurassic Park. And they've made caricatures of the original iconic characters, much like they did with most of the scenes that Spielberg gave the hallmark of something special, confident and immersive thirty years ago. The filler was at least entertaining, but even then I wondered a few times whether the filmmakers meant it seriously. Boring as hell, dumbly cynical twists and a clumsy environmental messages like from the monster movies of the 1950s. After this, I'm tempted to raise the far tighter and better edited and shot Extinction to 5* and the consciously, straightforwardly "campy" Jurassic Park 3 to 4*. Compared to this travesty, where Sam Neill is the only one who keeps his face, they are masterpieces. 40 %
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Jurassic World: Fail! Flambéed giant locusts, the exhumation of veterans tangled with the inability to effectively integrate them with the new generation, a silly script that repeatedly invokes God with a winch and saves heroes with the help of black brothers and sisters, burning giant locusts, desperate nostalgia-strumming to Williams' notes, and an action finale that evaporates from your mind as quickly as the whole film. Did I mention the giant locusts on fire? It feels like Colin Trevorrow stepped into triceratops dung, but he dove in so deep that only the soles of his shoes are sticking out.
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It is difficult to maintain the pace for more than one scene and except for the surprisingly grandiose and repeatedly escalating difficulties in Malta, it is impossible to immerse yourself in the plot. Every beautiful shot is accompanied by a stupid line or an exaggerated stretch of logic. It can only be understood as a genre retreat to certainty. Colin Trevorrow once again churns out a variation on his own Jurassic World and the original park and navigates the classical waters of adventurous chases with a megalomaniac human antagonist on the side. Perhaps that's why I liked the over-the-top, controversial, but perfectly different Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The powers that be are returning to the model of an attraction that fulfills its purpose, showing exactly the dinosaurs that the audience expects, linking the fates of characters we want to see intertwined – and surprisingly, even this time it is enough by a hair's breadth. Once it reaches its almost hour-long finish, everything is finally in its place and I get a sense of closure of the new trilogy and the complete hexalogy. And that is ultimately what I came for in the first place and the last place. 70%
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The return of the main characters from the first Jurassic Park was pleasing, as they are still likeable, enthusiastic scientists who love dinosaurs. Drawing the viewer into a world that dinosaurs are a living part of is cool. The movie gets off to a good start with the trafficker’s den in Malta and the long action scene that takes place there. Chases on rooftops and on a motorcycle in the streets, as we know them from Bourne and Bond movies, upgraded with velociraptors...why not?! But the rest of the film, in which we are only transported to a different reservation than in the first film, is a lumbering retread of what we have already seen, and it’s not very exciting, for that matter, with a lame Tim Cook-esque villain, logical crutches and nonsense unworthy of this film franchise. And only one fantastically shot scene that recalls Spielberg (the dive into the lake). And sadly, it is a short scene. Dominion is the weakest instalment of the whole franchise.
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A totally unworkable plot of repetitive action scenes that jumps like a flea only to finally retell what has been told several times before, but in a much more clumsy and emotionless way. The screenplay is a disaster, the direction of the action scenes follows the Bourne Bond axis, but it is not very skilled at that either. In the end, it's a mix of cluttered dinosaur MMA and Sir Attenborough having a severe stroke.
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