maandag 29 mei 2023

Jurassic World Dominion

 A blockbuster from last summer, Noshi and me sat down for this on our saturday night movie moment.



The third installment in the new series of dino-driven movies, it brings back "the old crew" as well, as it is meant to wrap up the story that began in Jurassic World, but harks back all the way to the original Jurassic Park movie of 1993.  And with "the old crew" that also includes the very T-rex from the first movie.
 
Set a few years after the Lockwood estate incident, Claire and Owen are leaving in hiding in the woods, secretly raising the teen girl Maisie Lockwood, trying to protect her from those that want her unique genetic make-up.  Blue is also there, and became a mother a-sexually of a baby raptor named Beta.
 
In the meantime, swarms of gigantic locusts are decimating crops all across the United States, except those genetically modified by a company called Biosyn.  Doctor Salter looks up doctor Grant, to determine what sort of modifications where done to the insects.
 
When Maisie is kidnapped together with Beta, Owen and Claire set out to retrieve her, and together with sympathetic pilot Kayla travel to the Biosyn headquarters in a Dolomite valley in Italy.  Here Dr Ian Malcolm, who currently works for Biosynm has searched out dr Slater in an effort to expose the CEO, dr Lewis Dodgson, after communications director Ramsey Cole warned him of his illegal activities.  Through the locusts he wants to control the food supply of the world, but his associate doctor Henry Wu denounces the plan as it might cause global famine.  When Wu meets Maisie, he explains about her origins and how he and her mother Charlotte where collegues, meaning that Maisie's DNA holds the key together with Beta's to stop the locusts.



As Kayla's plane is taken out of the air by a Quetzalcoatlus, the three of them are split up.  After escaping some big beasties, they find refuge in a dinosaur look out post, where they are joined by doctors Slater, Grant and Malcolm.  These have escaped the labs with a locust DNA sample and Maisie, resulting in Dodgson trying to burn the evidence.  The inferno of locusts on fire escape and set the domain in flames.  Dodgson himself tries to escape with dinosaur embryo's (in THAT shaving foam bottle!), but is attacked and killed by Dilophosaurus'ses in the hyperloop tunnel just like Nedry all the way back in the original movie was when he tried to escape with that specific canister.

As the others work together to restore the power and get Beta out, they escape together with Wu in a Biosyn helicopter, as a Gigantosaurus is taken out by the veteran T-rex and a Therizinosaurus in a showdown of huge carnivores.  Slater and Grant rekindle their relationship as they, together with Malcolm, testify against Biosyn.  Wu develops a patogen for the locusts, and gradually goes about eradicating the swarms, as humans, animals and dinosaurs adapt a new co-existence, the Biosyn valley designated now a dinosaur sanctuary where man is not allowed to enter.



And so the story that took us along six movies has come full circle, and it was, let's face it, a great journey, and for many people a guilty pleasure of watching these films.  This wasn`t perhaps the best of the series, but it was never the less highly enjoyable to watch and see some things come full circle.  But I must admit, the chemistry between the original cast works still better then that of the newer cast though...






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