![]() ![]() Speaking of the stars, even if you haven’t seen the past few movies in the Jurassic universe, Dominion is worth a look if only to see Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum all on the same screen for the first time since the 1994 film. Meanwhile, kind of in the background, the stars of Jurassic Park are busy reliving the plot of the original movie. This is followed by Chris Pratt somehow driving a motorcycle onto a moving plane in a stunt that I’m pretty sure I saw Tom Cruise do in one of the Mission: Impossible sequels. A walk through the underground dinosaur market may as well be a visit to an outer world in a Star Wars movie, and then there’s a parkour-laden chase through sunburnt streets that feels distinctly similar to a certain chase scene in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. But on the screen, it amounts to an uncanny collision of tropes pulled from the summer blockbuster franchises of the past few decades. Written out, all of that sounds fairly original and even compelling. The heroes are there to rescue their daughter: a young human clone. But that’s not why Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Clare Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) have found themselves in a gritty Mediterranean sewer. Thanks to the missteps of a few overambitious scientists, all kinds of ancient reptiles have taken over the planet. The island nation has become a hot spot for the trafficking of dinosaurs - a big problem in this cinematic universe. It’s hard to know exactly when I first felt the space-time continuum warp under me during Jurassic World Dominion, but I’m sure it happened beneath the streets of Malta. ![]()
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