THERE! I FIXED THE MOVIE! MINI - Jurassic World: Dominion

 

To be honest, I wanted to like the Jurassic World sequels. The first one was a good amount of fun in spite of a weak script, and the trailers for both sequels seemed to be total slam-dunks. But they all fell apart when they came out, and nowhere is that more evident than in Dominion. Out of all the films in the Jurassic Park series, this can be described as the most disappointing, because this should've been such an easy home run for Universal. It promised to be a movie about killer dinosaurs roaming civilisation with the cast of the World movies meeting the cast of the Park movies. But while it wasn't Fallen Kingdom bad, it had some of the dumbest choices that should've been so easy to avoid. How? Well, let's go into it.

Going in by the trailer, you'd think this movie would be about dinosaurs rampaging through the world and the heroes trying to contain them, right? Well, no! In fact, the dinosaurs are barely a threat in this. The main threat of the picture is...locusts. Yep, not the looming fear of dinosaurs killing humanity, instead the main conflict equates to "push me to the edge, all the crops are dead, push me to the edge, locusts mean no bread". And what makes it worse is that the scenes that actually deliver on what the trailers promised? They're amazing. They get really creative with the dinosaur designs, the tension is upped whenever they pose a threat, there's even a really fun chase scene around the middle that makes the viewing experience a little bit worth it. My main question with the movie is "why couldn't the whole movie be like that?". Think about it, there's a lot at stake with that plotline with a good chunk of civilisation at risk instead of...crops, it would make more sense for the two sides of the Jurassic pantheon to cross paths, and they could really get creative with the dinosaur designs. When me and my friend were walking out of the theater, he brought up the idea of merging a dinosaur with a spider. That could be only the tip of the iceberg. It doesn't have to stop at spiders, they could merge with stuff like scorpions, sharks or hippos (they can't all be threatening). They could even keep Dodgson in the story, only this time he could be behind the mutations by harvesting dino eggs and combining the DNA with that of the other predators. So to sum up, if you swap the locust pandemic with the dinosaurs mutating and rampaging through the city, then I would say I've fixed the movie. What do you think?

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