Jurassic World Dominion

Locations
Call Number: Blu-ray Science-Fiction Jurassic
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

Based on characters created by Michael Crichton.
Includes extended (160 min.) and theatrical (147 min.) versions.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
Bonus features: "Battle at big rock," a Jurassic World short film; A new breed of VFX; Dinosaurs among us: inside Jurassic World dominion.
Theatrical edition (2hrs. 27 min) -- Extended edition (2 hrs. 40 mins)
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, Isabella Sermon, Campbell Scott, BD Wong, Omar Sy, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda.
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, 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 in a new era.
Blu-ray; 1080p HD, anamorphic widescreen (2.00.1); DTS:X, DTS-HD high resolution audio 7.1; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Kind of Not About Dinosaurs? submitted by Meginator on June 27, 2023, 11:01am With my expectations sufficiently lowered by the preceding film, I found this to be a slight improvement, although it still has its fair share of frustrations and missteps. As with the other Jurassic World films, the second-generation adult characters are thinly drawn and uninteresting, and even the fantastic trio of actors from the original film are hampered by a self-important script with no sense of subtlety. The two newcomers, DeWanda Wise and Mamoudou Athie, likewise do their best with the thin material, but are ultimately held back by a bloated (and at times preposterous, even in context) plot that fails to strike the convincing balance between dinosaur-fueled action sequences and moral inquiry that makes the first series so captivating at its best. Not everything is terrible, and the film does have some great action-driven moments, particularly in its final third after the two distinct storylines (and all of the actors) come together. However, with its muddled messages and a surprising lack of focus on dinosaurs coexisting with the modern biome (you know, the major cliffhanger from Fallen Kingdom), the film is too heavy-handed and too confusing to be much fun until it gets back to the basics; by then, though, most of the runtime has passed and no amount of excellent action and satisfying callbacks (Ian with the torch, amirite?) can right the ship. This is better than the previous film, but maybe the series should have followed the moral lesson from the first film and allowed itself to go extinct without this unnecessary resurrection.

Jurassic World Dominion submitted by leighsprauer on August 7, 2023, 11:13am This movie was okay. I saw Jurassic Park when it came out, which I liked, and then Jurassic World at some point, which was entirely forgettable, and then this. Apparently there are others? It was almost too much action, to the point of being absurd, and the plot was very new-world-order-Monsanto-everything-is-doomed-overkill. The acting was just okay; DeWanda Wise was good but the others were mediocre.