The sixth film in the Jurassic Park franchise and final
one in the Jurassic World trilogy has a large ensemble cast of characters,
dinosaurs and cliffhangers.
Familiar faces include the protagonists and actors
from the first film, Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Alan Grant (Sam Neill), and
Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), along with the protagonists and actors from this
current trilogy, Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas
Howard), and Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon). These characters have separate,
related storylines in the movie. When they final all get together in the third
act, they really fill up the screen.
Owen, Claire and Maisie start where they left off in
the last movie, hiding from people who want Maisie for the genetic secrets of
her being cloned. They live in a remote area with little contact with other
people, where they encounter Owen’s Velociraptor, Blue, and her offspring,
Beta. The evil corporate empire of Biosyn Genetics has evil plans for both
Maisie and Beta. Biosyn agents kidnap both of them, with Claire and Owen following
closely behind.
Meanwhile, in a different, but related subplot, Ellie
Sattler believes that Biosyn has genetically engineered a species of huge
locusts that are seriously exhausting crops around the world. She goes to her
old friends, Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm, to get help in getting genetic samples
from Biosyn research facilities which would prove that Biosyn is to blame for
the locust disease.
Robert Roten said in his review, “These globe-trotting
rescuers and investigators encounter a variety of dangerous Biosyn allies,
minions and bitey dinosaurs along the way. There are a series of cliffhangers
as they barely escape time after time before the enormously destructive finale.”
There is plenty of action in this movie.
The main antagonist in the movie is Dr. Lewis Dodgson,
played by Campbell Scott, who is the unethical CEO of Biosnyn. He is a
businessman who engages in the types of activities that are absolutely bad for
business, like the locust breeding program, which is stupid, because he
obviously can’t get away with it. Roten described, “His unbusinesslike behavior
falls into the category of “mad scientist.””
Other characters in the movie, like geneticist Dr.
Henry Wu (BD Wong), Biosyn communications director Ramsay Cole 9Mamoudou
Athie), and freelance pilot Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise) are more complicated
than they appear to be at first.
Roten advised, “Once you get past the basic silliness
of the plot and the monster movie overtones, this is more like an unserious
heist adventure movie, and as such, it is enjoyable. This is not one of those
awful dark, depressing films about an impending genetic apocalypse, although it
could have easily been turned into that with a few minor tweaks.” This is an
entertaining film, filled with action, nostalgia, and special effects.
What I don’t like about this film is that they filled
in two-three stories into this movie, that it constantly changes between them,
making it feel confusing as to what to focus on. I do admit that it is nice to
see these characters from both trilogies again and the dinosaur fights are
great and still look amazing, but seriously, they need to really work on the
characters and stories if they want to continue making these films. I know they
said they won’t rule out the possibility of making more films, but if they do, work
on the films to make it better. There needs to be one central focus if you
continue to make these films. Don’t mix so much in there and try to make it
engaging like the first one was. Check it out if you want on Peacock, since it
will be on there for four months before moving to Amazon Prime for 10 months
before going back to Peacock.
Thank you for joining in on my review today. Stay
tuned Friday for the continuation of “Starship Troopers Month.”
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