Jurassic World: Dominion

El regreso de los protagonistas del primer Parque Jurásico fue agradable, ya que siguen siendo científicos simpáticos que aman a los dinosaurios. Atraer al espectador a un mundo del que los dinosaurios ya forman parte es genial. La película tiene un buen comienzo con la guarida del traficante en Malta y la larga escena de acción que tiene lugar allí. La persecución en tejados y motos por las calles, como las que conocemos de las películas de Bourne y Bond, mejorada con velociraptores... ¡por qué no! Pero el resto de la película, en la que solo somos transportados a una reserva diferente a la de la primera película, es un reciclado pesado de lo que ya hemos visto, y no es muy emocionante, con el villano disfuncional de Tim Cook, apoyos lógicos y tonterías indignas de esta franquicia cinematográfica. Y la única escena fantásticamente rodada, que recuerda a Spielberg (la zambullida en el estanque). Y, lamentablemente, es una escena corta. El episodio más flojo de toda la serie. (08.06.2022)

This is the recycling of the dinosaur movies where all the good has gone down the drain, leaving an unpleasant concentration of what is wrong with the Hollywood factory. The lazy script follows the same pattern for the sixth time, completely ignoring all the possibilities offered by the prehistoric monsters that are spread all over the planet. The joining of the new party with the old one features no surprises or a single spark. The parental theme is boring, and the only really full-blooded character is Kayla Watts (who maybe should have filled the quota, but she's a well-written and well-acted pilot)… Other than that it all goes on forever for two and a half hours. At the end, Ian Malcolm starts to spout a few catchphrases and unbuttons his shirt, and that’s about it. If it wasn't for the dessert in the form of the eaten guy on the electric scooter, which honestly made me laugh for about 5 minutes, I would award it the maximum misery. (29.06.2022)

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. (08.06.2022)

The conclusion of the dinosaur trilogy will be a commercial success. Disappointment prevails among the critics, but I am satisfied. For my money, it's certainly more entertaining and engaging than the sequel, which as is usual with sequels that are just filler for the finale. The first hour impresses in the form of news, where the dinosaurs get to our civilization and their way of living with us, this entertained me a lot. The plot then moves to Malta, where the film incidentally climaxes with a half hour action dinosaur romp, quite possibly the best dinosaur action sequence ever, though it is all too similar to Bond or MI, but a motherfucking ride nonetheless. The finale is about 40 minutes long and it's properly spectacular, there's a horror atmosphere conjured up in places (the mutant locusts are great), there are plenty of genetically modified dinosaurs which I welcomed, the central little girl isn't annoying, the nostalgia and emotion works, and, most importantly, it reminded me of my favourite PS1 game “Dino Crisis 2” in the locations, the action and the detail, which I ran through about 15 times as a kid and I take it as a tribute. A few things could have been done better, but what the hell, it's the only dinosaur franchise that's quality and there's definitely no competition anytime soon. I enjoyed it. Story 3/5. Action 5/5, Humor 3/5, Violence 0/5, Fun 5/5 Music 4/5, Visuals 5/5, Atmosphere 4/5, Suspense 4/5, Emotion 4/5, Actors 3/5. 8/10. (14.06.2022)

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% (21.06.2022)

Great individual scenes (the lake!) stuck together with very cheap glue full of cliché, homages to this (politically) hyper-correct time we are living in, frequent illogical behavior by the characters and dumb dialogs. All the same, this is a solid popcorn affair and pure fan service for lovers of the first Jurassic Park, but it’s worth a watch. It’s nice that the main powerhouse is made up of oldsters Sam Neill and Laura Dern and their hinted at love story from part one. Again this is about the classic struggle between evil corporation and mistakes made in the quest for profit by a miserable boss with the face of Tim Cook. This time round again, the story isn’t so much about dinosaurs as their clones, the genes of prehistoric locusts and good old whistleblowing. Dinos keep more to the sidelines, occasionally tripping up the main protagonists while they are trying to save the world from locusts and some sort of strange motivation driving them. A metaphor for wildlife protection (we have to act now, we should have done something...), but nothing else. In the end, it all boils down to quality, inventive action - the sequence on Malta is marvelous (will it be the new attraction in Universal Park?) - and who gets got by the T-Rex + who will help in the duel with the Giganotosaurus. The best thing here is Goldblum’s Malcolm who keeps on coming out with one-liners, going on and on about a dog that humped his leg so hard that he had blisters from it. P.S.: You made a promise to a dinosaur? (08.06.2022)

It's hard to understand how such an experienced creative team can produce such a dud from a substance as undoubtedly juicy as Jurassic World. Not even the old guard can help. Typically stodgy Neill and know-it-all Goldblum in the roles we ate up in the glorious first film, which incidentally is WAY better or at least the same as the xth sequel. Even the good old mechanic effects, of which there are plenty, were managed by Spielberg at least at the same level, but with better camera work and editing. The current CGI mess isn't even worth mentioning, and when Bryce Dallas is jumping from barrack to barrack like Bourne in Tangier it's clear that this attempt at frenetic live action, but with dinosaurs, isn't really going to be anything innovative. If that was all, it would still be bearable, at least to eat some popcorn, but the script was written by someone apparently on drugs and the fact that the whole confused, disjointed, incoherent dinosaur inferno lasts 150 minutes sends this megalomaniacal colossus down the drain. (18.07.2022)

While it looks promising in the beginning, in the end the third Jurassic World isn't much better than the second. If it weren't for Doctors Grant, Sattler and (especially) Malcolm, I probably wouldn't have cared about a single character, and yet the new heroes were so entertaining and promising in the first film of the trilogy. I guess the problem is that the filmmakers didn't know what to do with them next, they were all about releasing dinosaurs into civilization and didn't bother with the humans. I simply didn't have much fun, from the middle of the film onwards I raised my eyebrows more and more, hoping that at least Colin Trevorrow would entertain me with visual effects and action, but they weren't even that great (how is it possible that Jurassic Park and The Lost World still look fantastic, while here you see digital dinosaurs that don't move completely smoothly, and animatronic dinosaurs that look like better toys?), and the action or suspense scenes didn't exactly take my breath away either (for example, the clash between the humans and the giganotosaurus starts off great, or copying Spielberg, but ends up being utterly ridiculous), and I wasn't worried about anyone. No, not even the pond scene, which was pretty lame. Apart from Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, probably only Michael Giacchino didn't disappoint me... And I'd love to see the likeable DeWanda Wise in something better. (10.06.2022)

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 % (19.07.2022)

Después de El reino caído, salí del cine enfadado, después de esta basura me fui resignado. La promesa de un alboroto de dinosaurios en la civilización prácticamente no se cumple, porque la película, salvo en unas pocas escenas, vuelve a transcurrir en una reserva cerrada donde algo sale mal, y los dinosaurios prácticamente no interfieren en la trama. Toda la Dominion se compone de subtramas poco interesantes basadas la mayor parte del tiempo en puras coincidencias, motivaciones de personajes completamente aleatorias, constante ignorancia de las leyes de la física, molesto servicio de fans barato, y, por último, pero no menos importante, un montaje extraño que constantemente y artificialmente da a los personajes una ventaja sobre los lagartos ultrarrápidos, y lo más importante, están las manos mágicas de Chris Pratt que pueden detener cualquier ataque en cualquier momento. ¡Magia absoluta! Incluso todos los actores parecen estar aburridos y molestos, así que ¿cómo no voy a estar aburrido y molesto? Objetivamente, es más o menos para 1 estrella, subjetivamente me he dejado influir por el regreso de los viejos conocidos, especialmente por Jeff Goldblum, que se luce glosando las idioteces que aparecen en la película, así que tal vez con el tiempo llegaré a darle 2 estrellas, pero serían dos por los pelos. Pero no vamos a engañarnos, la otrora mágica y majestuosa franquicia de los dinosaurios ha caído en picado y es prácticamente un pelotazo de taquilla barato. Y si alguna vez se hace una reunión del reparto original del Parque Jurásico, debería ser en una película mejor que esta. (16.06.2022)

I love the original "Jurassic Trilogy", especially the first part, so I was delighted when the opening part of the new trilogy hit the big screen seven years ago. While the first Jurassic World didn't have the magic of Jurassic Park, it was a beautifully nostalgic throwback. However, with the second, and also with the third Jurassic World, I felt that the magic and "childlike" excitement of the dinosaurs had faded at the expense of a story that wasn’t always solid due to the script. After screening Dominion, I had really mixed feelings: on the one hand, I was glad to see the old trio together in action after many years, while enjoying the many references to the original trilogy and the many new dinosaurs; on the other hand, I was sorry that that nostalgic touch was often precipitated by shallow lines, while at the same time you could feel the untapped potential of the aforementioned trio and some crucial scenes (like the final dinosaur battle). But the first sequence with the "lizard with a scythe" was absolutely fabulous, as was the massive action set-piece in Malta. I understand that global disaster scenarios are fashionable these days, but I simply enjoyed the adventurous and "family" Jurassic Parks more. (16.06.2022)