My Thoughts On Jurassic World: Dominion

[@magnum1165]

My biggest disappointment with the film was that Grant never got to meet Blue, I was convinced one of the last shots of the movie was gonna be Grant with Owen meeting Blue and seeing not all raptors are these mindless killing machines and maybe even Grant coming to term all these years later cause I am sure he has PTSD from both encounters with raptors

[@Mephilis78]

The anthropomorphizing is one of the worst parts of the World trilogy.

[@LadyLeomon]

Yes, exactly this!

[@nicholasthedinosaur]

He meet baby blue

[@monsterhanna6691]

I see your point, but at the same time, he did learn/know that Owen trained Raptors AND his connection with them.

[@EnZo7992]

It’s what happens when the movies clearly made with the main purpose of being a “blockbuster”. They really could’ve done a whole lot more with the plot and characters.

[@thewhitemonkey64]

While I enjoyed the movie, about halfway through the film my wife turned to me and asked if Michael Crichton would ever write a story like this. The imagery was so ridiculous that it made me laugh and I replied, ‘If Crichton were to write this script, most of these characters would end up dead.’

[@alderlopezcastro4928]

Your right

[@KaptenN]

Since JPIII, the makers have been too scared to kill off important characters. The only ones who died in JPIII died too early to become important and after that the main casts have either been too small to lose members or they have consisted almost entirely of old beloved characters who have upgraded plot armour because of their status.

[@thewhitemonkey64]

@@KaptenN It's pretty unfortunate tbh. The stuff based on Crichton's actual material was just... better... Again, I enjoyed this for the most part, but it's not even close when compared to stuff that would be written by... you know, a writer?

[@KaptenN]

@@thewhitemonkey64 Well, the original two movies weren't written by Crichton, I believe. He did write some scripts, but they didn't go with them and wrote a different script instead. Those two movies are VERY different from the books. It's been a long time since I read them, but I would recommend reading them if you haven't already.

[@thewhitemonkey64]

@@KaptenN I have read them! They didn't go with his specific versions, but they were HIGHLY influenced by them. See everything with the Rexs and the trailer, which is some of the best stuff in the movie. The people who've done III through JWIII are... *mostly* competent, but there's just so many weird little tweaks that feel... well, let's just say that they don't really measure up lol

[@Starlight-fu7kv]

They said the Giga was like the joker, the Giga was probably the most chill antagonist I’ve ever seen in the whole Jurassic franchise, it felt like the Giga was just being a regular animal and there weren’t much tense moments with it because everyone involved had plot armor… It literally did nothing wrong and I even felt bad for it being teamed up on when they all didn’t have a choice because they were all wired to walk into that enclosed area together. The indominous Rex felt way more like a Joker dino who loves chaos and is a real villain

[@joelgholami2672]

Why did Trevorrow feel the need to say that? Did he even watch Joker?

[@Raikigraphics]

honestly, i am glad the giga wasnt THAT much of the big bad killer machine, because in the end, its just a slightly upscaled t-rex, not a mega murder clone monstrosity. jw3 spinosaur might be iconic, but also way too over the top. it pretty much behaved the same as the indominous which was specifically designed to be more aggressive. even if the giga wouldve been more aggressive, it still wouldve felt kindof impact lacking, because it was not designed to be the true antagonist. the baddies of the movie were the humans, which is quite relatable and exactly what i expected. it doesnt always have to be a new monster, so in the end im glad they didnt go for it

[@Starlight-fu7kv]

@@Raikigraphics well the Spinosaurus is actually a hybrid so it being over aggressive can be justified from that information

[@Raikigraphics]

@@Starlight-fu7kv all the dinosaurs are hybrids which raises the question, why not all of them are as aggressive, so i wouldnt count that, since we never got to hear the spinosaurus distinct features during creation

[@Starlight-fu7kv]

@@Raikigraphics that’s a very broad statement considering that they distinct the regular Dino’s with hybrids even though technically yes you’re right all are hybrids. But in the case of the Spino they confirmed it’s a more hybrid than others so I’m just saying using the spinos behaviors can be a valid reason for it’s aggressiveness

[@paulvandervort6229]

My biggest complaint about Dominion was the lack of a sense of imminent danger. I never believed there was a possibility that any named protagonist might die. Added to how many of the scenes had been spoiled in previews and trailers, Dominion just didn't deliver the feeling of catastrophe that it was trying to present. Even the locusts didn't feel like a threat because we never saw their destruction on a truly global scale.

[@TheMoistLord]

I kinda did plus I also saw the danger that the giga would have done if she escaped and killed the T-Rex

[@pink_kino]

Another one is that there was way to many characters they couldnt kill off, and the newer ones were totally overshadowed by the returning legacy characters Plus, Bryce Dallas Howard did not do that good of a job in this show maybe it her or maybe she had a really bad script and they dropped the ball on her character but this something my dad said that he really did not like her performance and thought she was the weakest link in the entire entourage of characters(i also really didnt like DeWanda Wise character at all)

[@M1GarandMan3005]

I kind of felt like Maisie should've died in the final movie. As controversial as it may seem, I believe that Maisie would finally have to live up to the sins she had committed by releasing the dinosaurs, killing hundreds, if not thousands of people in the process. Just plain simple Karma, man.

[@lmaochicken]

YES EXACTLY!!!!!! My biggest complaint was there was no sense of mortality...... No protagonist died lol

[@ZoarTwili]

I do not understand, they walk of crying that legacy characters die in other films like Star Wars sequels, but in Dominion the protagonists do not die and anyway they complain!

[@HawkEye-cm5wb]

I think my biggest gripe with this movie was, they set up the whole scenario of dinosaurs being on the mainland in the last movie, just to have the entire second half of this movie to take place on essentially another island (in the mountains vs the ocean). We really only got one scene with dinosaurs reeking havoc within a populated area. Besides that, yes the locusts play along the line of a different company playing with the genetics technology and using it in different ways, I kinda just wish it was a little more creative than "big bugs", but that's just my preference and it still accomplished the storyline they were going with. I hope we get a director's version with more of the scenes they clearly cut.

[@mauricioeinhorn5682]

Perfect observations @HawkEye93 One of the complaints about the whole franchise was the fact they keep going back to those dangerous islands. Trevorrow tried to "solve" it by exploding Nublar...But what about Sorna and the other three "muertes"?! It's difficult to believe that they set up the whole dinos out of the island thing and ended with the Biosyn sanctuary (which is basicaly the same thing with rocks and snow as you wisely said). A globe trotting adventure would be a lot better. It could end in a contained space (something like the Lockwood manor) because I think these movies benefit from a labyrinthine set like the visitor's center/kitchen/control room from the first one.

[@brav0wing]

The film does a very good job at explaining that humans and dinosaurs cannot coexist. Byosin Valley stood for dinosaurs in the world. We saw the beginning montage how dinosaurs are wrecking havoc all over the world. We saw in the film how humans are exploiting them as well. The end of the film montage shows nature actually finiding a way in integrating the dinos but not the humans. There is hope however, the little girl playing at the end of the film with the Moros Intrepidus. This scene echoes as well Malcolm's speech to the young generation at Byosin Valley.

[@denverdoyle184]

Totally agree. Felt like false advertising from the trailers

[@megatronrobertprime5769]

My biggest problem was not enough dinosaurs more humans and locusts. Also where was the seen when the t rex went too that car movie and when the t rex died and went in the water I would give it maybe a 7/10 so maybe 3 out of 5 stars

[@jeremy251]

Yes, 100% this. We got a second set of trilogy films where the whole notion of an actual Jurassic World was promised but never actually delivered in any meaningful sense.

[@jakecastillo6731]

I personally would’ve loved to see more banter between the new and old cast. Like grant’s trauma with raptors and how he would react to handling blue. Or more comments from sadler when going into the power room and her talking about her previous experience in the first movie. Also some spino references wouldve been cool too.

[@matplayer1232]

Same thoughts here When i first saw that sail sticking out of the water,i looked shocked at my friend and i was like "If this is a spino i swear i will..." But hey it was a dimetrodon And after all we had the dilos so fair enough Besides that,as a fan of the franchise of my childhood,this movie was perfect for me honestly

[@flyboy970]

Sattler FFS

[@xyZora]

THIS!! Such missed opportunity.

[@kirstin1000]

The lack of Spino reference was probably my single biggest disappointment with the film.

[@matplayer1232]

@@kirstin1000 same

[@High_Key]

The Therizinosaurus scene with Claire was the best sequence in the entire movie for me. Everything from ejecting from the plane to crawling under the water, just worked for me. I was hoping to have more panicked and horror sequence vibes like this.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

An entire movie like that would have been better.

[@Mephilis78]

That's where it really feels like JP, and I loved it.

[@Mephilis78]

@@Duchess_Van_Hoof like JP?

[@t0k3verse]

I got up to pee just before that and missed the entire scene

[@ikedog1405]

It was cool but it wasn’t a carnivore it was a herbivore and had no reason to attack. And I fell like there should have the dinosaurs be in longer scene or to reappear more.

[@FlyingPoltato]

I quite agree with your review. The pacing and editing was quite an issue imo. There was a severe lack on tension in most scenes and some of the cast action felt quite out of character. I also quite disliked Maise’s character - it almost felt like the character was bored the entire movie, and even in scenes where they’re supposed to be afraid she just gives off strong bored teenager energy.

[@epiccarrot88]

Hello Takodachi

[@huacxix4032]

Other than Ian Malcolm, no other characters seemed to be very invested in the movie, which shouldn’t be true in a situation where everyone is going to die if they can’t stop the Giant locusts. The movie only caters to Ian Malcolm fans and reduces every other character into these pointless filler walking around in lame groups of 3.

[@SteveL11]

Her character was poorly written but her acting was really good. The scene where she was climbing the ladder near the end? Totally got me, for a sec, I feel like I was actually there with her and about to be eaten.

[@n.b.l.5709]

Her funny bulging eyes look 😆

[@TheMoistLord]

Maise has always been a disappointing character like I've never liked her.

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

The worst scene in this movie is when they treat Allan and Ellie as complete morons when they got the sample from the locust and trap them in the ante room in their protective suits. Ellie and Allan are resourceful and think outside the box, but they could barely get a sample from a locust without nearly messing it up.

[@TheMoistLord]

I just wish the theri and the T-Rex fought after they killed the Giga or Like there was no teaming

[@XForbide]

This movie was weird. The issue I had with it was that they didn’t really have a villain, or obstacle in this movie so it just felt like watching bunch of random events happen rather than a coherent story. Dodgson wasn’t really a villain? I mean sure he did some scummy business practices but he wasn’t much of an obstacle. The giganotosaurus didn’t feel like a villain either since he appeared so late. In JP3 or Jurassic world, Spino and Indo were very clearly the obstacle and when those dinosaurs were defeated, you knew the movie was over. But for this film the ending was so unsatisfying because it didn’t really feel like they overcame anything if that makes any sense. This movie would have been so much better if they focused more on the giga and the challenges the survivors face trying to escape the park. The locust and maisie subplots felt to me as a total distraction and did absolutely nothing to the movie.

[@luisvelez1952]

This franchise deserves to have a formidable armored human villain that can put a brutal fight against Owen in a realistic situation like Darth Vader is against Luke in The Empire Strikes Back.

[@XForbide]

@@luisvelez1952 yeah I kinda hate how they made the T. rex into some heroic figure. It’s t-Rex! It’s supposed to be scary

[@purge3883]

In my final conclusion the movie was absolute trash big disappointment

[@thebloxconductor1870]

Loved the movie, Hated the ending. My opinion

[@That_Doctor_Del_Fella]

I actually feel bad for the Giga. The fact it was pitted against Rexy was the only reason to root against it. It was just chilling and being an animal and yet it gets tag teamed and brutally killed. The prologue would at least justify why these 2 animals can't be friends so omitting that worked against the film for sure. Speaking of the plot, I honestly think if they had left out the Giga entirely, brought back the Spino, and let Rexy 1v1 it the fans would have gone nuts. Imagine Grant's face if Dodgson said Spinosaurus. Maybe even give off a faint Kirby satellite phone jingle echoing in his head. We didn't need a new species to be the big bad dino, especially when locusts were the true antagonist in the first place. Criticisms aside, I really did enjoy the film as a super fan just for the nostalgia and action scenes.

[@Bagrationi-l6m]

I agree bro... It would be better if giga would be defeated and leave theri and rexy heavily damaged rather dying brutally just for being an animal.

[@cintronproductions9430]

I don't get why the director overhyped Giga by comparing him to the Joker of all people when Giga in the movie was just a poor guy minding his own business and acting like a realistic predator for the most part. If anything THERI was more like Joker, cuz Theri and Joker are both lanky and colorful and Theri kills deers for no apparent reason. XD

[@Bagrationi-l6m]

@@cintronproductions9430 theri's territorial,but still theri's more like joker bec. It's colorful lol😆😆😁

[@kuhanblock9380]

When Rexy was knocked out they should've had a paddock 9 scene and let the Spino show the Giga who's the actual biggest carnivorous dinosaur the earth has ever seen. The one bit of fanservice I was expecting from this movie didn't come to fruition 😔

[@chuck6698]

Good call with the spino

[@bradsmithstudios8881]

I cannot understand why they haven't based a movie on the events before JP1...the development of the dinosaurs, Hammond and Wu's relationship which is detailed in the book, the construction of the park and site b. There's so much there that could be explored and tied into JP1, that is a movie I'd watch.

[@missxy8217]

sounds interesting but it would be difficult to find a proper cast without it looking silly

[@ItsSamHussey]

Probably because Richard Attenborough is dead

[@daegnaxqelil2733]

hollywood isn't a fan of prequels

[@floydharper1216]

Those things would be sort of interesting to see, but those are things you already know about, it would be almost impossible to make a story out of that that wouldn't leave most people feeling like "yeah...pretty much what I figured happened." And if they did do something surprising or left field, then people would throw a fit saying "that didn't happen, you just made that up!"(as opposed to Michael Chrichton making it up? Lol) So there's really just no way to win on a project like that

[@sharpright6887]

Because it started with the book and the best movie was the one closest to the book.

[@purplepothos5794]

Appreciate your honesty. Being a franchise fan doesn't mean we have to worship every instalment but we can still love the franchise in spite of ones that we don't connect with. I'll be watching it this Friday and also happy that we still have more JP material to look forward to in Camp Cretaceous season 5 right round the corner.

[@Snake0Gamer]

I personally think that the only reason critics are trashing this movie is because Chris Pratt is in it. While I know there is a lot of fair reasons people have for not liking this film, it is pretty clear to see the bias critics have when talking about this movie

[@themotions5967]

His opinion on this is very spot on, and generally it’s what I and what I feel like many others have been thinking but not able to out into good enough words. It’s one of those things where the movie is a longer film, but funnily enough could have been even better if it was yet longer and had less of the content cut and moved around to fit a cinema release. This is because the movie tackled one of the hardest types of narratives to pull off (imo) in a movie with a fully and equally split narrative. But don’t get me wrong the team here did a fantastic job of trying to wrap of the stories of both of the trilogies’ casts and their individual narratives. It almost feels like it could have been broken up into a single season of a tv show with the way it was edited because you can tell they Laid out the plot points for each narrative and then had to figure out a way to go back and fourth between them that would fit the time constraints they had. If you do video games The Last of us 2 had this exact problem but far worse as it tried a three way narrative That’s what kinda gives the movie the feeling that things aren’t properly laid out in order as far as scenes go. The movie was still very good in my opinion, especially if you can see the intended plot layout under the editing In that initial experience I also recommend watching the prolog while in line for tickets until they release a directors cut.

[@bennieboi7114]

CC is so trash. I don’t know how that interests people.

[@strikebeam2344]

You haven’t watched it yet but you watched this video?

[@Neurodivergent-j1f]

EXACTLY. I enjoyed individual scenes, and the performances of the actors, but I will admit there were some things that could have been handled better.

[@chaoticchris4039]

I think one of the biggest problems with this movie was the fact that biosyn wasn't a part of the previous World movies. I feel like had they been a running thing, their presence and downfall would have been far more satisfying

[@kuhanblock9380]

This is pretty much how people felt about Palpatine suddenly coming back

[@m.powell9676]

@@kuhanblock9380 yes!

[@thehacker2125]

"Somehow Palpatine returned"

[@OfficialAndroid-16]

My problem was not enough focus on the sanctuary and before they moved away from civilization other than that I like it

[@somethingfunny2199]

@@kuhanblock9380 I don’t think those two can really be compared. Unlike Biosyn Palpatine was a person with such a strong presence it didn’t matter if he ended up being in the Sequels or not because his work/legacy was the foundation of the First Order

[@hunterowen8479]

They were also too scared to kill off any named characters… hell even the T. Rex couldn’t die. Dinosaurs being able to get any cast member at any time is what kept us on our toes during the originals or while reading a Crichton novel

[@ZacTG]

For the t.Rex they promised They would not kill her, as for the main characters I agree

[@MoonDevoured]

completely agree. it eradicated any potential suspense. I thought that just maybe Malcolm would die but knew for sure nobody else would. especially when two of them climb out of a plane that just crashed into the ice, completely unscathed

[@jacobowens2603]

@@MoonDevoured I agree I was totally expecting them to at least kill Henry Wu off.

[@darrenbarnett7167]

I thought they were going to kill all the dinos. But yea especially with Rex. They knew not to kill it because they don't want a reapeat of JP3 backlash. But they still had to push their view of T-Rex cant kill anything without help from a tiny raptor or a giant ostrich. They go so far to throw in the JP logo eater egg before the fight to appease team Rex, but Universal's hate for the T-Rex is too unbecoming to ever show it winning a fight. RIP Rexxie

[@hunterowen8479]

@@jacobowens2603 right! I could’ve sworn the actor even tweeted a spoiler saying his character would pay a tribute to the novels! Thought for sure it was going to a classic raptor death, maybe even when he’s trying to get Ellie to come inside lol but nope he survives again ofc

[@dksl9899]

Given the 007 feel of the Malta sequence, I half expected Owen to use a shard of glass to bounce Santo's laser back onto her body. Then he says "reflect on your choices" as all four raptors attack her.

[@MrJustSean]

The biggest gripe I have with this movie is they left the ending exactly the same as the beginning. For a movie that was supposed to be a climactic coming together and finale for the franchise. They literally opened with, humans and dinosaurs are trying to co-exist which is causing problems and ended with, well after all that, humans and dinosaurs are going to try and co-exist. I enjoyed the movie as a Jurassic park fan. Not so much as a movie fan. I do feel they lost a lot of the suspense scenes in favour of action film style scenes which was not a good thing. The therizinosaurus scene was incredible. Gave echoes back to first seeing the T-Rex and first seeing the spino.

[@britmccarter14]

Agreed. They made it feel more like a villainous intro scene, which should have also been given to the Giga.

[@LegitEliminator]

I have been eagerly waiting for this review and even though, I really enjoyed it, 100% it could been so much better!

[@chewy99.]

Mostly with the inclusion of the prologue at the beginning lol

[@Reereez4795]

I think what a lot of people are experiencing is something that I experienced watching Avengers: Age of Ultron. I was a huge Ant Man and Ultron fan going in, and I had all sorts of ideas for the film, but was ultimately disappointed with what I saw. Cause it wasn’t a strong stand-alone film but instead a film that was used to propel a lot of future Avengers storylines. When it comes to Fallen Kingdom and Dominion, I feel like both would’ve been better served as TV series that gave more time for different plot elements to develop. The messiness of Dominion specifically and another huge time jump between films forces painful exposition and plot elements are rushed. I liked a lot of the fan service stuff, but at times that reminded me of The Rise of Skywalker (a film I was not a fan of). At least JW Dominion got the fan service stuff mostly right.

[@bookit4823]

I thought this too

[@kuhanblock9380]

I think the lack of humility and respect for the real stars of this movie is the main issue. You can't just make a whole movie dedicated to unleashing dinosaurs on the mainland and market this one as THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE JURASSIC SAGA and have the movie be about clones and mutant bugs. This is all made worse by the marketing that made it seem like the movie would solely focus on dinosaurs and humans trying to coexist

[@chewy99.]

@@kuhanblock9380 You’re complaining about the movie being about clones? All the non-avian Dinos in all the movies are clones, that’s how they’re made. And of course it only makes sense for them to use the prehistoric insects as the real threat of extinction to humans, as if it was just dinosaurs, we could easily defend against them and they wouldn’t really be something that would cause or threaten to cause our extinction. The locusts were creepy and I thought they were good. Also the Jurassic movies have never really been about the dinosaurs as the “real stars”, it was always about the human characters and their reactions to the dinosaurs. In the original JP the dinosaurs were not on screen too long.

[@kimberleytuffs4433]

Some sequences in the movie were good, however I felt let down by the overall story. It had such huge potential especially with Alan, Ellie and Ian returning but it was just all over the place. I really wanted to see Alan and Owen talk about Blue and actually have Alan see how Owen interacts with Blue given Alan's previous experiences with raptors. I fell like there could have been more about Isla Sorna given how heavily it featured in Lost World and considering it's supposed to be the last one, I really expected more from it. For me it just didn't reach the quality of the original J.P or The L.W.

[@ericr4673]

Exactly the words “All over the place” is how I described it.

[@volcanomonkey7959]

I heavily agree with you. I grew up with the original Jurassic Park and The Lost World. I loved the first two films!!! Didn’t like JP 3, loved Jurassic World, and liked fallen kingdom.

[@superspecky4eyes]

I would have like to have seen Blue rip Owen to pieces and vindicate Alan Grant's fear/respect for these animals.

[@JRD-wi1bh]

It reminded me of a fast and the furious movie

[@SenzaTempoCaneCorso]

I saw the very first Jurassic Park in theater and was so terrified that I was hiding behind my seat and even that wasn't enough. I had to go out in the hallway because I was so scared. I had recurring nightmares of Jurassic Park dinosaurs hunting me in my dreams. It was that scary... I've watched every single Jurassic Park movie since then and for the most part I loved all of them. This last one was an embarrassment to the franchise. It felt like some gen-z kid had gotten a hold of it and ruined it. I bet you would find an age gap between those that like this movie, and those that don't. Jurassic Park is supposed to be a scary suspenseful film, not a funny action-packed adventure story with likable heros used to push political agendas of the elite that never die...

[@kevin_ramirez2529]

Yea it felt like I was watching a fast and furious movie, I never felt suspense because I knew none of the characters were never in real danger.

[@jurassicturtle3666]

Once you get past the nostalgia bait, it's really disappointing.

[@thelocalseawitch579]

This movie was an utter disappointment and there are gen z like me that also hate this film, dominion in my opinion was worse than JP3

[@randybobandy9828]

@@thelocalseawitch579 jp3 is light-years ahead of this film.

[@thelocalseawitch579]

@@randybobandy9828 jp3 is a masterpiece compared to this film

[@MourningCoffeeMusic]

I’m a super fan like you man, and I couldn’t agree more. Personally, I’m super bummed the Spinosaurus didn’t show up at all and the Rex family didn’t show up sooner (would’ve been cooler if they aided Rexy in that final battle). Also, the Dilo that Stan Winston made in 93 just looks so much cooler. It’s also a shame we didn’t spend more time with some of the dinosaurs and ultimately tried shoving too much into one film (like Rise of Skywalker).

[@Alcatraz--rk5op]

I was waiting the whole movie for the spino because they said all the old dinos would come back.

[@LanceBjornsson8888]

@@Alcatraz--rk5op Yeah but Colin also said Spinosaurus wouldn’t show up in Dominion.

[@Btbgive15]

Bruh facts this movie is literally nothing without the spino

[@msingyheat3218]

Agreed… that final should have been Spino not therizino. They could have played up to it better by talking about multiple apex predators battling for dominance… What’s worse is them calling giga the largest land predators to have ever lived when everyone knows it’s spinosaurus… I was really hopeful when that clip was played in the trailers that it was foreshadowing spino being in the film.

[@Btbgive15]

@@msingyheat3218 fucking facts!! I was high in the theater waiting for that to happen

[@thefallenmyst]

Finally saw it myself. For all its cool moments, it felt like they made a movie out of the rough draft of the script. Pacing was all over the place, the dinosaurs didn't behave like animals (and let too many people escape through their own clumsiness or stupidity), too many major events didn't really feel like they had the right consequences (like the fire sequence), and it took too long to get to the good stuff, and then they went through the good stuff too quickly. Definitely was worth seeing, but could have been so much better.

[@zebimicio5204]

Which is funny considering this movie wanted to portray the dinosaurs as animal like as possible...which is ironic considering blue is almost sapient as hell and that trex therizinasaurus scene....

[@thefallenmyst]

@@zebimicio5204 Yeah, for real. Maybe I've just been watching too many videos of African wildlife, but this movie messed that up.

[@mattencarnacao5988]

Right with you on everything you said

[@jumpanama]

Dominion felt more like the universal studios theme park ride than an actual JP movie. Every dinosaur attack scene was with a different dinosaur that you never see again, nobody dies so there's no actual threat, and the big finale is just running to a helicopter to escape. It's also got all your favorite characters but don't worry, none of them die or get seriously injured because the ride has to maintain continuity with current and future films. Only characters introduced to a specific diorama are killed in that diorama, so that each set piece could be treated as its own 5 minute JP short. I don't know how to fix it though, since imo the issue is the lack of continuity from scene to scene. You could cut an entire scene and not miss anything important. That said, I thought the Malta scene was awesome. Everything that makes JW fun and different from JP can be seen there. You get sweet action scenes, cameos of fan favorite dinos, and actual deaths of named characters.

[@InvaderGIR98]

Most of the Jurassic Park movies have made me cry. Wonder, awe, nostalgia. Dominion made me cry in anguish.

[@mlggaming9876]

Honestly one of the films biggest missed opportunities was having the Therizinosaurus fighting along Rexy against the Giga, instead of the Spino. It would have been AMAZING to see both Rexy and Spino teaming up against the Giga and killing it. I was so disappointed, honestly, because I literally waited throughout entire movie to see the Spino, but it didn't even make a cameo. Honestly one of the biggest missed opportunities of any films I've seen.

[@pogcow4178]

Yeah I kinda agree with you on there like seeing Rexy and Spino teaming up would've been a lot cooler but I still enjoyed the fight ngl I enjoyed the part where Rexy kills the Giga and showing him who's the real boss here because the Giga was kinda being a bully to Rexy but then again what are the chances of two giant predators teaming up

[@justinbrown2474]

I agree

[@justinbrown2474]

Would have been so much better to see spino and Rex kill the Giga

[@bigsmilie07]

Why are dinosaurs teaming up like anime rivals? Wtf

[@galacticguardian2783]

Frankly these allout brawls where these mindless animals are anthromorphised and you are supposes to pick a side is everything that was wrong with JW movies in the first place.

[@LauraLegends]

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could do the whole genetic spin off show …. They didn’t stop to think if they should. Very disappointed sadly. Was looking forward to this one redeeming itself after an unenjoyable fallen kingdom.

[@realCriminalLawyer]

I enjoyed Fallen Kingdom. At least more than Dominion.

[@carlosmarquez17]

Hi Laura! Stay legendary. This movie sucks XD

[@shaildotcom]

Ya, I liked fallen kingdom, Dominion should get thrown in the trash bin.

[@Sophylio]

Dominion = Spy Movie (Dodson should have showed up), Fallen Kingdom = Horror Film, Jurassic World = Creature Feature (Frankenstein-Rex and The Birds). In my opinion, they all miss the mark as movies by trying to be homages of preexisting franchises. Which is ironic because the money is really in the merchandise and not in the attraction itself (A lesson of Dr. Ian Malcolm's speech. So there is a self-referential quality to these films by showing corporate interference with a final product. p.S. I swear that in Dominion there was a few references to Indiana Jones.

[@TimDisturbed]

Yeah I was disappointed by Dominion, so I'm with Laura and Klayton on this one. I even had to get up at one point and missed 10 minutes, which is rare for me to do when watching a Jurassic film in the theater.

[@FHM1994]

Klayton, always be critical with things and plots that deserve closer look, and don't listen to "shut your brain off and enjoy the movie" people. Dominion is/ was promoted as the epic conclusion of the Jurassic era. Good movies are not about CGI spectacle but about strong story elements and meaning to inspire fans. Let's look at The Lost World, long driven scenes with purpose and integrity to support the plot, it's not all about Dinosaur spectacles, the fans want a cohesive story writing where protagonists lifes are at stake, there wasn't really something threatening about chased by dinosaurs and main characters survive everything despite the odds, Eddie was a likeable character and he got ripped apart, Robert Muldoon underestimated the Raptors as well.

[@brav0wing]

The movie had all these things. But I agree that they advertised it to be a human vs dinosaur big clash.

[@daverichards9141]

But I shut my brain off and did enjoy it.

[@youreinthematrix87]

But their were a ton of people who hated lost world too it happens with every film its always the original is better mentality.

[@Saibot_the_Noob]

I certainly enjoyed my time with this movie and don't regret the three viewings, but that all being said you are very much on point on the critiques. The convoluted backstory with charlotte really needed a rework, and your idea for a re-edit of the first act sounds waaaay better, and smoother. I very much appreciate your honesty on this one, that kind of integrity is why I keep coming to you as among my favourite voices on this franchise

[@sdaftermath123]

I watched it for the first time yesterday after hearing it was bad. I actually loved it. I was pissed they killed the giga, and they did it in such a stupid and lame way. Last 20 minutes of the movie or so we’re not good, but I enjoyed the rest of it. 7 out of 10 for me. I enjoyed it more then fallen kingdom and jp3

[@henkhenkste6076]

three?!!! viewings?!!! seek help

[@3CFilms]

The review I been waiting for🙌🏻

[@MelodyVOA]

YOU WATCH THIS GUY TOO?! LES GOOO

[@rhysaguirre6967]

Same

[@KyleEwersMusic]

I’m so glad you watch his channel. I love both channels you guys should do a collab?

[@sfd4603]

Yooooo I recently subbed to you and now seeing that you watch this channel too just proves I made a good call subscribing to you!

[@WOLFCHAINZ2]

Hi Papas 🥰

[@blastyadead5219]

FINALLY I NEEDED TO HEAR THE KINGS THOUGHTS ON JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

[@tothesky8799]

👎👎👎

[@mastersheepeditz1972]

Same

[@ChocolateYT_1]

@@tothesky8799 who asked

[@Bobzilla2023]

@@ChocolateYT_1 love your pfp and name lol

[@frasermillar9919]

Wasn’t impressed

[@chewy99.]

I agree, the prologue would’ve done so much for the movie. Showing the real size of the Quetz, the Giga’s relation to Rexy, and what happened to Rexy after Fallen Kingdom. It had been a long time since I saw the prologue so I didn’t realize Rexy was caught or even at Biosyn and why.

[@DanElgaard9]

But it wouldn't have made sense: The Giga and the T-Rex lived in different time-periods (5 mil. years apart) and in different parts of the world - they would NEVER had met each other !

[@chewy99.]

@@DanElgaard9 You know what else doesn’t make sense? DNA lasting tens of millions of years 😂

[@thatfishguy4991]

I think the issue with the film was just how they disregarded the whole point of fallen kingdom which was actually leading us to a Jurassic world. We wanted to see these dinosaurs in the wild interacting with other wildlife and with people, not a bunch of dinosaurs in a nature preserve and some big scary locusts.

[@dandino8100]

@@thatfishguy4991 Locust world

[@13thBrother]

Bro that Lion at the end of JW:FK was more scary than the Giga, that man was ready to FIGHT Rexy right there. That lion had balls of TITANIUM

[@Spiney09]

The moment the spear throw happened, my brother and I died laughing in the theater. I’m not going to elaborate further, if you’ve seen it you know exactly what I’m talking about.

[@rastaskate4546]

Yup i laughed too how malcolm Who is always scared becomes hercules is so out of place and hilarious and when owen grabbed that dilo looks like some parody instead of The actual movie

[@Spiney09]

@@rastaskate4546 They really jumped the shark with it

[@Alteori]

It was a messy movie. 💔The fact that you had to put a long disclaimer at the beginning of your review says a lot. You're a more hardcore fan than even me And it was shocking to me that it "personally hurt" a lot of people when we come out and we're honest and say that the movie was messy and felt disrespectful to the franchise. Again, I loved the thero scene And that was easily the best scene in the entire movie, But what they did with the giga especially since they hyped it up so much, was just downright disrespectful and lazy. The whole movie felt like a tossed salad. I'm so glad that we have camp Cretaceous to look forward to because honestly I feel like there's more stakes in that than there was in this movie. That being said, I'm happy that so many people enjoyed it. Just because I'm disappointed in something doesn't mean I wish that on anybody else and I respect everybody else's opinion. I honestly thought you were going to say that you liked it and I was interested in hearing your perspective. But we appreciate you being honest And I'm definitely going to sub to your other channel. I was wondering what happened to you 😄

[@kevingonzalez9614]

Salutations

[@somedudewhodraws9377]

No u arent a fan. U whine and moan about everything u watch Alteori. U are a like a grouchy old grandpa yelling at kids to get off of my lawn and they arent even on it together.

[@captaincapitalis1205]

It was a bit of a mess, but I think I’m so used to horror stories in Hollywood- The Rise of Skywaler- that I was pretty happy the movie didn’t just flop on it’s face. The plot wasn’t great, but I enjoyed the cinematography.

[@Its_Me_Romano]

We kept hoping we would finnaly get some serious tones again.. especially for a conclusion but no. We got annother pg action flick

[@TheDooDooBop]

I agree

[@johnwilliams655]

Man’s able to keep his composure even when unimpressed. The Trex vs Giga was done nowhere near as good as Rexy vs Indominus which had build up, motive and a reason for us to root for Rexy aside from simply rooting for her because she’s Rexy. The Giga did nothing morally questionable. The scene could have been redeemed had it shown that the Giga had persecuted the Therizinosaurus.

[@kuhanblock9380]

More of the runtime was dedicated to the locust bs

[@ChaoticRaptor336]

The movie wasn’t the “epic conclusion” we wanted. The giga was just worse than indoraptor. Unlike every other Jurassic park/world movie out there, each Dino villain is shown for more than 3 minutes lmao. Giga was just here then dead. The battle was just too short and I would of loved it to be longer. More bashing, chomping, you know, like the Jurassic world fight! It had some good scenes, like the original trio, Dodgson returning and his death that referenced Dennis’s death back in 1993. It was a pretty good movie overall, but failed its potential.

[@ryans413]

JP has the fight with the Raptors and T Rex. Not a very long sequence but it was done well. JP 2 gave use a good 15 minutes of a T Rex on the run in the United States and that was fun. JP 3 had the battle with the Spinosaurus. JW gave us a great long battle between the T Rex and Raptors and Indominus Rex. JW 2 last final fight was kinda bad but Dominions final fight was so stupid and rushed.

[@jordynwilson5239]

And the fact that the Giga's death feels unjustified, all throughout the movie it acts a normal animal, sleeping, showing dominance over Rexy, but it's given such a unnecessarily brutal death for what seemed like no reason, compare it to the other dinosaur villains like the Spinosaurus, Indominus Rex or the Scorpios Rex, those acted like monsters, the Indo and the Scorpios doing mass killing of dinosaurs, while the Giganotosaurus barely killed anything, all it did before the "big" fight scene was just say screw off to Rexy and sleep.

[@kuhanblock9380]

@@jordynwilson5239 they did the Giga dirty. They built him up as something he wasn't and killed him off for simply defending his territory. Even in the prologue he was just chilling until that Trex started something

[@jordynwilson5239]

@@kuhanblock9380 honestly I felt bad for the Giga.

[@ChaoticRaptor336]

@@kuhanblock9380 yeah, Jurassic World dominion just put them as actual animals, the only part we have about giga being the villain is when Alan says “it’s not about us.” I mean, still! It was quite cool seeing them as actual animals. People get pissed that rexy didn’t kick ass.. like. What do u want? Her to pull out lightsabers? Actual Rexes lived roughly twenty years and even with proper care, she would still be old. I’ll give the film one point do showing rexy is old and can’t fight like the theri but used her (highly exaggerated) intelligence to kill giga. Jurassic world isn’t a documentary and has every right to show giga as an actual dinosaur villain and rexy as the hero, it was cute seeing the Dino’s at the end act peaceful but ironic how mosa LITERALLY KNOCKED DOWN A WHOLE SHIP AND DROWNED A BUNCH OF SAILORS then chillin’ with a mother and baby whale. Huh? What? What is that?

[@Troutfisch]

Couldn’t agree more with your review, that said I saw the movie with my nephew and that made it more fun for me since it was his first Jurassic theater experience. Btw any chance you’ll be reviewing Prehistoric Planet? That series definitely lived up to the hype!

[@therealronniej]

My biggest problem is that the prologue wasn't even in the movie!!! The first 15 minutes of the movie was so weak without it. Other than that, I hated that no Spinosaurus appeared (they had so many missed opportunities) and the Giganotosaurus dying. Final fight scene should have been longer and the choreography absolutely sucked. Also Dodgson is the weakest villain I've ever seen. Dennis freaking Nedry was a better villain 😂 Normally the bad parts in monster movies involve the humans. But when the monsters are the worst part, you are in trouble.

[@takumi-san116]

I know the Evolution games are questioned in terms of canon but in Evolution 2 the Spino died during the Sorna dino move to Jurassic World in the JP3 Chaos Theory campaign

[@Kasar_Logic]

@@takumi-san116 jwe is not canon

[@user-A562]

Yes

[@takumi-san116]

@@Kasar_Logic Holy crap D4C!! Anyway with that out of the way yeah I know they aren't canon in anyway just thought it would be an interesting point to bring up as that specific event could be considered soft canon but you never know. The canon is rewritten all the time ie Dodgson with the Barbasol can

[@NathanielTavington]

Right? Especially after Dodgson was such a bastard in the books, I expected a lot more. So disappointed! Nothing against the actor however, he worked with what he was given.

[@dat1_kiddplayz912]

I REALLY hope that a extended cut is released because hopefully theres more dinosaur action that was cut because a lot of scenes with the dinosaurs seem shortened

[@Memosaurus0917]

Rumor has it there's a black market scene that would've involved Leonard the Lystrosaurus against the Oviraptor in the pit fights

[@chewy99.]

@@Memosaurus0917 An oviraptor in present day? Cool! Also I had no idea a lystrosaur was named Leonard lol

[@chewy99.]

The most important addition to an extended cut would be the prologue, in my opinion. More dinosaur action is of course definitely cool though.

[@bryannedelgado6479]

Personally it was fun. I just saw it today and me and my friends really enjoyed the movie. It was slow at parts but the scenes with the dinosaurs was awesome but I understood why some were thrown off. The pacing was odd at points and the motivations for some characters unclear. The main cast was awesome though. The Therizinosaurus was my favorite Dino in the movie. I actually really liked the locusts in this movie, the themes behind them and the idea of not just dinosaurs being a danger to the world. The audience I was with were cheering at the end. Not a perfect movie but I got the feels at the end.

[@margogoralski6294]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences. Cool to know about the cheering crowd there. Me and my family watched the film in a theater with only a few others, so weren't as many people to make some noise at the end.

[@Fez_Studios]

I agree! I had fun, but there are still things that could have made the movie even better if you think hard about it, but overall it was a good and fun film to me!

[@reiangossling6395]

The Therizinosaurus was my favorite as well, the way it joined in the final battle like Blue and the Mosasaurus in the first Jurassic World was really awesome and my favorite scene. Its blindness was also a unique trait that subtly explained it was so aggressive (it couldn't tell if anything in front of it was a threat or not) and its design is one of the most threatening in the franchise in a subdued way.

[@pailhorsegaming6762]

This is a really good critique of a film in general tbh, you aren’t pissing all over the film and being whiny, you’re talking about specific things you take issue with, and you suggest solutions to the issues. 10/10

[@ParkRanger2000]

Finally, I'm so excited to hear your thoughts and opinion on Dominion! 😃 Edit: Okay, so after REALLY thinking about the movie, and seeing all of the MASSIVE missed potential, this movie was a big let down. And that's something I should NEVER say with a Jurassic Park Film. Ever! Like one of the issues I had with the movie was with the whole Charlotte Lockwood Clone scene. They clearly retconned it because of how it was presented back in Fallen Kingdom. And it sucked, idk why they changed it. And the creatures like the Pyroraptor and Dimetrodon, they were in the movie for like a few minutes and then never to be seen again, which sucks I wanted to see the Pyroraptor more. Hell, like Iguanodon was just put in the background when ever it was on screen! There waa concept art of Alan and Owen going up against the Pyroraptor, AND IT LOOKS AWESOME! Why didn't they make that scene??? Why?! This movie just makes me want to scream at Colin " WHAT HAPPENED?! WHAT DID YOU DO?! "

[@christopherk9]

I wish we could’ve seen more of the Dino’s romping around wild. Being caught and not just us all the scenes we’ve seen before. Also the final fight was awful. More of the black market would have been cool too

[@juliancaraveo5700]

Yes , Imagine a post credit scene in Malta where the Indoraptor body is being sold to someone. That someone is the Russian Bidder from Fallen Kingdom.

[@dereklopez9060]

Finally, I've been waiting to hear your thoughts about Jurassic World Dominion. It was honestly a very disappointing movie for me, it could've been so much better. However, I do like seeing Dr Grant, Dr Malcolm and Dr Sattler together on screen, It was a real treat for me and thank God they weren't killed off, I was honestly worried about it. Also seeing the Buck and the Doe T-rex from The Lost World Jurassic Park in the very end was cool.

[@JuwanBuchanan]

So otherwise not worth your time watching. Thanks my guy.

[@rippertheindoraptor7908]

Let me be honest the inclusion of legacy characters might be the problem I mean this movie have like how many key/important characters? That's alot of cost plus there probably alot of cut/scrapped scenes that would make the movie better

[@selo_do_acasolucasdelgado2908]

The cast was great, Goldblum did a genius work, he wrote a lot of his lines, deserved to be in a movie better connected to the artistic concept of jurassic park (park, yes, better than world, as malcon implied in this movie)

[@dereklopez9060]

@@rippertheindoraptor7908 There's alot of things that were missing in the movie, including the prologue and the scene with the T-rex crashing into the Drive-In Theater, I hope they release the Extended Edition, that would be nice.

[@Gojiex99]

@@JuwanBuchanan no way you're basing your opinion from someone else L.

[@JohnLillith]

I hated how the main thing that the characters were trying to stop was bugs, BUGS, not dinosaurs, bugs in a Jurassic park movie

[@arkiisan]

I totally agree on absolutely every point here. I feel there's a need for a fourth installment; Jurassic World: Redemption, lol. to be fair though, it may have been indeed good as a movie (if it were a standalone) but the fact that it carries the torch of the franchise and is supposed to be the epic conclusion that gave us high expectations which blew things up.

[@OncelerKidsAreCringe]

But they said it would be the last film, they did say they would touch on it more but I don’t know about film wise

[@destisbestmobile5417]

This movie is based off of stopping locusts. LOCUSTS. BUGS NOT A MASSIVE DINO. BUGS FOR DESTS SAKE

[@OncelerKidsAreCringe]

@@destisbestmobile5417 it’s a religious meaning

[@curious1053]

What about a reboot that’s closer to the books?

[@streetsiswatching9660]

Introducing : Jurassic Park Locusts Revenge

[@RodrigoLeaf15]

The critique you mention is on point. I do like the movie, it's not AS bad as critics are saying it is, but I can recognize there's a whole lot of problems. And honestly, that editing/restructuring you mention sounds awesome, it changes the flow of the movie a lot. And the prologue! Damn, when I was watching the final part of the movie (the battle), my mind went back instantly to the prologue, it really is missing, and it improves the movie a lot.

[@theminecraft2516]

Even if you like it, you have to admit it’s probably the biggest wasted potential in the franchise.

[@RodrigoLeaf15]

@@theminecraft2516 That is true, there was so much that could be done with the story. But it would be unfair to not recognize aswell the potential for this to set up future stories, now that dinosaurs are practically accepted as wild fauna.

[@Mephilis78]

I feel like Dodson still having that barbasol can is silly. Sure it let's everyone know that he got the can, but why would he be saving like some kind of ancient relic. It was just a tool for him. His character in JP came off as serious and practical. Not sentimental and Doe eyed. Why the emotional attachment? Just saying they could come up with a better way to give us this information. Especially since it's entirely irrelevant at this point in the franchise. He didn't get *these* dinos from that can.

[@Schproemftell]

He could have kept it as a Monument to his prior failure so he wont make the same mistake twice ? Something like : you want something done ? , do it yourself

[@KaptenN]

I don't mind it being there as a private museum piece, but the fact that he takes it with him and treats it like it will save his business again is just dumb. The coolant must have run out long ago (didn't it have enough for something like 36 hours?) and it's all banged up and dirty. If he was taking embryos with him while escaping he could have used a proper container. Who's going to question him for taking things from his own company?

[@Minetic]

@@Schproemftell I would assume that this is a different barbsol can otherwise, how on earth did he find the one Nedry lost and was covered in mud

[@captainsplashtail2627]

In a way, he did get those dinos from that can. Without nedry sabotaging the first park, the dinosaurs would never have got to Jurassic World

[@monsterhanna6691]

I was just thinking about Jurassic Park: The Game. 😂 Either way, maybe he wanted a souvenir?

[@danielgaming2223]

I finally got to watch the movie all the way through. I've followed along with all of Klayton's videos, and I grew up with the JP movies. To say these movies have shaped me as a person is an understatement, it is this franchise that led me to actually seek more knowledge about and understand more about dinosaurs as they actually were, and I'm still seriously considering going into paleontology. Now, the reason I need to write a comment here is because I need to give my genuine opinion on Dominion, where it's not going to be spoiled for anyone who hasn't watched it, since they likely won't bother to watch it if they haven't, or they already have, just based on the video Klayton has posted here. Upon first viewing, I didn't even watch through the whole movie. In fact, I made it through the first 15 minutes, was called away to do something, and didn't return to the movie for a month. I was so uninterested with that first 15 minutes that it genuinely soured my want to return to it. Finally, I did, and I honestly can't say it was great. After I finally sat through the entire two and a half hour film, I came out of it with one single thought: That was messy. And messy it was. The whole film was so haphazardly thrown together, if not for the incredible shots in some cases, I would have believed it was a low-budget knock-off film. But, it's not, and as a finale to the franchise that shaped my childhood, and possibly my future as well, this movie was far, far away from what I had hoped for. It's worth mentioning too, that I was genuinely so excited for this movie to come out. I went into it with such high hopes, knowing that this was the big finish, the last of the franchise, and the movie that Trevorrow had stated was "the film [he] always wanted to make." What I got instead was a movie that felt like nothing more than a nostalgic cash-grab, with so many plot holes and issues, that pandered to its' audience with the dinosaurs and the characters, and spent the entire film talking about over-sized crickets instead. When you really peel away all that was made specifically to hit nostalgia triggers in the audience, you have this: Adopted clone child is stolen from her parents because Wu wants to use her special clone powers to solve a bug infestation on an island that happens to have a couple dinosaurs. It's literally nothing more than that, and as the grand finale to the Jurassic Park movies, it's such a far reach from where we started. From the masterfully written Jurassic Park, a story so well-fleshed out, with absolutely no reason to pander to or even really care about the audience, it tells a story of several people who are trapped on an island, after an employee puts the power grid down in an effort to sabotage the company. But this island isn't a typical island, the island is crawling with deadly genetically-engineered prehistoric creatures brought back from 65 million years of extinction: dinosaurs. The movie is action-packed, but has the heart and soul of a movie that was built up from scratch and given to the world not as a nostalgic cash-grab, but as a story about human nature, and plays with the consequences of "playing God." Dominion is nothing. I can't believe I could ever say this, but I genuinely can't stand this movie. Yes, it's a let-down, but it goes so much further than that. To go back to the pandering, too, I want to mention a few things that really stuck out to me. For one, the first time we see Dr. Sattler again, after so many years, is met with... Well, I guess a couple camera angles? It struck me as a bit odd too that she was wearing the same outfit that we first met her in. But then, oh, then she stands up in her truck and pulls off her sunglasses, and I honestly had to sit back and laugh. Absolutely no subtlety in her reappearance. But, that was nowhere near as bad as Grant's return. Dr. Grant instead is followed around, to (quite literally) center stage, and as he turns around what should we get but the Jurassic Park theme song suddenly swell. But, as I watched, I realized very VERY quickly that we didn't even get the theme song itself, but a loop of the same single part over and over until it breaks off because another character pops in. And Ian Malcolm, our beloved chaotician, has gotten the worst treatment out of all of the main three. It was so unemmersive to me, because not only did Malcolm simply not feel like malcolm anymore, but throughout the movie he was treated as if he was just simply stupid. Malcolm was and always will be one of my personal favorites, but they did Malcolm dirty. All of the other characters are just as bland and uninteresting as they've been in the last two entries. Maisy is a british girl who is a clone. Blah. Claire is a business-person turned animal-rights activist stereotype. Blah. Owen is just some random guy who was in the navy and found himself training raptors in JW, but oh, they go absolutely ham on that aspect. Every time you see him he has one hand up, defensive position. It genuinely feels like the main three from the JW trilogy had any tiny amount of character they might have had in the previous two entries, simplified down to a singular aspect of their personality and cranked up to 100. I couldn't find anyone in the entire movie even remotely interesting, and the movie itself certainly didn't give me any time to find an interest for them either. And the dinosaurs frankly sucked. Everything felt so mixed up and smashed together, and the only thing the entire movie was going for was a dinosaur showcase, because now we have a feathered Pyroraptor, a Therizinosaurus, a Dimetrodon, an Atrociraptor, and a Dreadnoughtus. In fact, in Jurassic World Dominion ALONE, there are 30 dinosaurs featured. I genuinely remember thinking, "Man, I miss when there were only six dinosaurs." The movie jumped from dinosaur to dinosaur in away that ruined any story there may have been, and took me, as the viewer, out of the experience entirely. To conclude, I hate Dominion. This movie is easily the worst in the franchise, and I genuinely hope one day the franchise will pick itself back up and start producing something, literally anything, with a single grain of the intelligence, the heart, and the passion for a good story above all else, that the first movie had. As is, what a terrible finale to a franchise. Note, please forgive me for my rambling, I just got off of a closing shift at work, which has me overtired and physically hurting, but I did my best to put my thoughts down in a way that makes some sense.

[@wyattgoralski818]

I agree wholeheartedly with your statements. I felt robbed and betrayed by this film, too.

[@CastaldoFilms]

Something I haven't seen many people point out yet, is the location names being written in the same font they used in the Park films. Thought that was a neat little detail.

[@whatshouldvehappened3784]

I’m so happy that another huge fan felt the same. I’ve never been so disappointed ever in watching a film. I think I was looking forward to this film more than any other film ever. My main disappointment was the they didn’t do justice for rexy! She really should have had so so much more screen time and she didn’t need help against the Giga! She really could’ve killed it if she got one bite on it’s neck. They’ve sought of made her look a little like a laughing stock! So would love to see you making a video about how she always looses and shouldn’t! T-rex is the staple of the franchise and is more than capable of being the top dominant predator, just from the power of their bite compared to all other carnivores!

[@rivermitchem293]

I agree with the treatment of Rexy. I think Trevorrow secretly hates her 😂

[@sterlingsublett9334]

I agree with everything you said

[@434444334]

i liked the ending her and the buck and mate from world were bonding

[@wargolemx102]

It's not just Rexy, even the Giga is barely there. Theres a lot of dinosaurs in it, but each one was barely there.

[@jessefisher3038]

I almost got up and left during the fight it’s not a tag team wrestling match

[@storiesfromtheabyss9808]

As a mega fan myself, I think the two biggest issues weren't necessarily the editing, but the plot and scripting unfortunately. The plot revolves way too much around the locust issue when the much more interesting story is the cohabitation of modern animals and prehistoric ones, which gets sidelined to a few really awesome shots at the beginning and end of the movie. The second big flaw was over-reliance on nostalgia to sell scenes or somewhat cheesy dialogue. Every time the OG cast is on screen they pump out the JP score and after the first time it's like, "Yeah I get it, these pumps of nostalgia aren't hitting anymore." and trying to homage way too many scenes from previous movies. I would've liked more references and links to previous movies rather than scenes that tried to replicate ones from previous films in the franchise. Like how many times do they do that hand in front of a dinosaur thing in this movie? It should have been just twice at the max, like why does Owen do that to a Carnotaurus and Allosaurus who he's likely never even worked with before? It just doesn't make any sense to me. That aside, I do still like the movie, it's just a major letdown on what could've been an absolute killer of a send off the the World series. The animatronics and set pieces are all fantastic and it has some of the most beautiful cinematography of any Jurassic Film to date. I'd seriously kill for some big portraits of some of the scenes from this movie.

[@liamclarkson2902]

The nostalgia thing, as much as I loved it, was also an issue for me. To me it felt this film was released for nostalgic reasons more than anything else cause nothing really got ‘wrapped up’ as far as I’m concerned they’re at the same place they were at, at the end of fallen kingdom. I don’t know it just seems like the film was about the characters (primarily Maisee Lockwood) and extremely large locusts whilst the Dinos were more like cameos than anything else.

[@ryans413]

I think a better twist for Owen would be that Blue stops listening to Owen and maybe attacks him and Clair was forced to kill Blue then that cause a rift between the two and maybe Macy runs off to get away from the fighting and she gets brutally killed by a couple of dinosaurs that trample her then Owen goes to find Macy and he gets killed by a T Rex that steps on him and then Clair goes out to find Owen and get killed by a Triceratops then we wouldn’t have this boring movie

[@flamesofgames3986]

We didn’t go to see locusts in our world we went to see dinosaurs in our world!

[@dandino8100]

@@flamesofgames3986 yes

[@jimhiedeman8568]

Agreed 100%. I would have loved to see them focus more on the interactions between the dinosaurs and modern day animals

[@huacxix4032]

I just saw Jurassic World 3 yesterday. In preparation, I rewatched the other 5 movies in the series throughout the week. JW3 is the worst Jurassic movie yet for 2 reasons. 1 Despite having a massive cast of 11 main characters, Ian Malcolm is the only character that they did a good job with. He gets to be funny and well written. Owen seems robotic and uninterested in what’s going on around him (which is very disappointing as he’s my favorite character). Grant, Ellie, Claire, Maisie, and Blue don’t get to do anything and are just shoehorned in just for the sake of having them in the movie, which is a real shame considering Grant using the raptor larynx to communicate with Blue would have been cool. Having Owen and Blue team up against the bad guys would have been a lot of fun too, but instead Blue just waits in the woods. Dodgson is the lamest villain yet as he alternates between cringy nerd and loser having temper-tantrums. Henry Wu inexplicably isn’t a bad guy anymore so he doesn’t get his come up ons for all the bad things he’s done. The two new characters are lame clones of Owen & Malcolm making them redundant additions. This bogs the movie pacing down really bad. 2 Never before have the dinosaurs been so boring or irrelevant in this franchise. They’re never allowed to kill “good guys” so the tension is gone and you find yourself waiting for the dinosaur to leave so that the story can continue. Bizarrely, dinosaurs don’t play much into the story; the movie is about if they can stop the giant locusts from killing everyone through famine. I kind of like that idea, but the locusts don’t do anything and apparently can’t hurt any humans directly either. I was disappointed that the Spinosaurus didn’t come back. The dinosaurs that do show up come without build up and then just disappear forever.

[@insanity4224]

I agree with you on everything except for Ian Malcolm. I felt like he was a different character from a different movie. Did not seem genuinely intelligent at all and was a cliche’ earth warrior. In the first two movies he was smart and practical.

[@stupiddinosaur1291]

Something I hate is that Malcolm, or really anyone, didn't so much as acknowledge that Maisie was a clone which I thought would be a given. I also hated that Wu didn't die or even so much as face any consequences whatsoever. When he said "I need to fix a terrible mistake", it wasn't about, y'know, everything he's ever done, it's about this _new_ problem he made, which brings me to another point about this film - I cannot identify a theme. I thought it would be about facing the consequences of your actions, but nothing in the last movie seems to have affected anyone. It would've worked so well with the Atrociraptors attacking Owen which is literally his research coming back to bite him, but nothing else in the film supports it. Also, Fallen Kingdom is rendered completely pointless now. Lockwood's quest for "redemption" doesn't make sense because he didn't clone Maisie. It's even worse because Charlotte didn't decide to have Maisie until 2006/07, long after Hammond had already died, so why did they break up? And finally, the movie ends literally the same way as FK: voiceover of dinosaurs in our world telling us that we'll need to adapt instead of showing us how we have. This movie was so close to being great, and I agreed with everything you said here.

[@orangepasta99]

EXACTLY! My main complaint with this film is that it ended the same way fallen kingdom ended. For a movie that is SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT dinosaurs living with humans, it never addressed that problem and Instead focused on a completely different plot. ( I don’t want to spoil but if you’ve seen the movie you know what I’m talking about)

[@rhetiq9989]

It definitely feel like it was an unnecessary retcon to have Charlotte being alive all those time instead of what Fallen Kingdom set up, I thought the latter had a more interesting idea in setting up Maisie’s origins and I was hoping to see more of the consequences of that. It’s almost like in Rise of Skywalker where they tried to retcon things set up in Last Jedi only bcs it didn’t work there for fans and it was written by different guys with different ideas, but here they’re both written by Colin and somehow he was compelled to alter her origin and made it much less intriguing

[@FacuGonz3]

Yes, I don't understand why they did with Maisies story.

[@Jiron127]

@@orangepasta99 that's because most of the dinosaurs were caught and sent to biosyn. The rest went to the black market. Greedy humans will always find a way to exploit the exploitable (dinosaurs)

[@Jiron127]

@@FacuGonz3 Wu probably changed and felt remorseful after being used by dodgson

[@Mephilis78]

One thing I like is the fact that they occasionally bring back the horror aspect of the first movie.

[@LocLocco.]

Facts

[@spdutahraptor777]

yeah, but when they did, it was dull like, good idea, bad execution....Dogson's death was perhaps the only descent one

[@WraithLK]

@@spdutahraptor777 they literally copied the villain death from jp1

[@spdutahraptor777]

@@WraithLK no, they made ir a little bit creepier than nedry's

[@lunathekuduruk1311]

There was no horror no tension though? Only a toddler would be scared of those lifeless animatronics

[@brendandulaca3147]

I heavily respect your honesty Klayton!! Personally I did enjoy Dominion, but there are a lot of issues I have with it. My big three complaints are the uneven pacing, the lack of human deaths, and some of the special effects don't hold up as well. I imagine a lot of this is probably because of Covid unfortunately. Regardless I had fun with the film, but I think it could have been better. Anyway, great review!! Keep up the great work Klayton!!🦕🦖

[@dale7116]

It didn’t land with me the way I wanted it to is exactly what I thought. I was very disappointed. I had such high hopes and I left terribly disappointed. I dislike this more than I dislike the fallen kingdom. I like the first four so much. The last two really disappointed me from what I was expecting

[@nicks1459]

The first act was definitely a big issue, and pacing was too. Most of the scenes do not smoothly flow into each other. That, and the amount of “last second saves” is completely redundant because we know nobody in the group is going to die. They should have killed off Kayla to establish any sort of tension, because there’s barely any concern for a single character in the group. The raptors are introduced fast and thrown away just as fast. The shots and cinematography had a lot of good moments though. Another issue, with me personally, is how the final battle went down. Trexes are always losing badly in fights in these movies, and makes their own mascot look weak. The therizinosaurus had no reason to join the fight either, and they never clarify why it did. It would have been much more climactic to have Rexy defeat the Giga on her own by the skin of her teeth, and have her reestablish her place with the final fight of the trilogy

[@patrickjames3148]

I actually agree with everything you said

[@stevenmcburney8167]

It’s not a good Jurassic movie without some last second saves

[@v3das442]

Lol ye the prologue was made to give context to the ancient rivalry they have and why they were going to fight, so I don't even know who decided "you know what this is an ancient rivalry just between the trex and giganotosaurus let's just chuck in a therizinosaurus and make it the indominus rex fight v2 besides we cannot let the trex win a fight by itself, it can either lose or get help in a fight"

[@nicks1459]

@@v3das442 Exactly, they build up this “Ancient rivalry” between them that goes absolutely nowhere, since Rexy never redeems herself or truly defeats the Giga, it’s all pointless and a bad attempt at making the trash fights any better

[@nobodyyummyfish7276]

@@nicks1459 Because the giga has always been stronger (JW wise)

[@mattplaysthat7216]

One of the biggest issues I had with this film on the whole was that they basically Nerfed Rexy extremely hard. They practically went all in on Jack Horner's theory about how T-rex was a scavenger, to the point that we don't really see the rex do any real form of hunting, and backs down to the Giga early on. This is presumably the SAME t-rex that fought the indominus rex 1v1 at first, and sure she needed help to ultimately win, but the bigger point was that she wouldn't normally back down from a fight, having the two be mostly evenly matched, perhaps slightly leaning in the Giga's favor at first might have played better into the climax where they have their real fight and Rexy comes back to win the fight with a tag team effort, much like she did with Blue in JW1. I honestly feel like several of these dinosaur scenes were undercut and had the tension cut down substantially. Each one of these films seems to have gotten less and less scary and thrilling than the first which is something I find problematic since the original books are far more graphic and gory, but these films are pandered more towards children now. The Netflix series I felt had more tension in it than Battle at Big Rock or Dominion did, which is really telling when even a kid's show feels like the stakes are higher, and that's with an all cast composed of Plot Armor! I Did have a lot I enjoyed about this movie, but my general thoughts as I walked away were that, it was "OK" it didn't really wow me that much, or surprise me in any deeper way, it didn't seem ground breaking or shocking, and the few new dinosaurs that were introduced seemed to be there for a flashing moment and then were gone the next. I did love the Therizenosaurus though :3 I guess my general thoughts there was that this felt very.... middle of the road safe path in the long run, and like a lot of it was meant to try and appease to the fans in ways that felt like they were trying to keep everyone happy and fix some potential "Past mistakes" See also the relationship between Ellie and Alan. I am generally happy with how it ended though, and IF this is the last movie in the franchise, it's not a strong note to go out on, but it could have been worse.

[@Dinoslay]

Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s just a half-cooked product that clearly didn’t benefit from the extra time spent during the pandemic.

[@kavinskynguyen]

JP/JW T-Rex is now totally confirmed to be the weakest version from all other different variants, they are just punching bag + making easy PR money and do nothing more than an icon but never lived up to it. About Dominion, the pacing is so slow; so much nonsense; Biosyn - Biosyn - Biosyn; everything is so out of the place and never connected to one or another. I love dinosaur movie but if this keeps continue in the future, i might consider skip any Jurassic film because i don't want to feel let down anymore (like Godzilla franchise too)

[@allegrifan4933]

I mean to be fair Rexy is too old. She wouldn't risk too much when fighting 1v1 vs the giga

[@lunathekuduruk1311]

@@allegrifan4933 she fought the fricking indominus this should be easy for her

[@allegrifan4933]

@@lunathekuduruk1311 that fight is 7 years ago

[@Dal_Chawal]

The movie felt like I just watched the writer's brainstorming sessions for 2.5 hours. I would have loved to see these ideas for a longer series that could flesh them out and just be separate. maisie is such an interesting character but I came to see how humans and dinosaurs are gonna square off in the walmart parking lot but all I saw was Taken 4: Andy keeps doing that hand thing with the dinos.

[@antoine6760]

The part where they were in the lab and Meta was about to jump Owen and Maisie jumped in and did the hand thing was sooo cringe imo. They never established that she could do that and the hand thing is based on mutual respect and a bond with the animal and she was never around Meta a lot. Not in the same way that Owen was training Blue, Echo, Delta and Charlie. But yeah, this isnt like the T-rex rampaging through San Diego in TLW.

[@rhona6481]

I never liked the ending. It was just like "lmao we learned to live happily with the dinosaurs the end"

[@calvin7215]

I thought the variety of dinos in this movie were amazing and they all looked great. I loved the underground fight ring scene with the baby baryonyx and the fully grown allosaur and carno

[@cintronproductions9430]

It was so cool and satisfying to see Rainne Delacourt get mauled to death by Leonard and the baby Carnotaurus and decapitated by the baby Baryonyx. Serves him right!

[@atlsooner85]

I kept thinking of the star wars tavern theme while watching that part.

[@jamesvarela233]

Honestly the most respectful review out there over everyone that I seen. Legit thank you for giving good criticism for the movie. Whilst I do disagree and that I without a doubt had enjoyed the film 100%. I do see the flaws with Dominion, I do wonder why the prologue with the Cretaceous period and the drive in theaters scenes were cut out from the film? Indeed the battle between Rexy, the Theri, and Giga should’ve been longer.

[@kuhanblock9380]

I was entertained by the movie but I left feeling like there was more they could've done and that there was more to be seen

[@jamesvarela233]

@@kuhanblock9380 true, a whole lot of the films production was cut. I wished Universal kept the scenes that were important in the film.

[@yehiahuzayyin7972]

@@jamesvarela233 A director's cut later, perhaps?

[@jamesvarela233]

@@yehiahuzayyin7972 well that’s the idea for the film to have a directors cut, but jeez I rather have them get it right on the first go than counting on DVD sales. It’s not like COVID’s still happening or anything? Just wish Universal let Colin go all in with the last movie no major cuts too. If the film has to go longer than 2 hours and 30 let it, since this is most certainly the last time we’ll ever get to see all of these characters, including the OG Jurassic Park cast on screen ever again.

[@Lirka_906]

My biggest problem was the giga not getting a single kill, and then getting a big final battle as if he's the bad dino? Maybe he should have killed Malcolm, just to get some stakes back into the movie and make the final battle feel more warranted.

[@13thBrother]

Rexy backed away from the guy after a single bite and a headbutt, but she killed the Indominus and countless other species... Rexy, you are scared of THAT guy?! Are you serious? You should have been scared of that lion that roared BACK at you at the end of Fallen Kingdom, that guy had balls of firkin TITANIUM

[@Durmomo0]

I thought for sure he was going to get Malcolm

[@thisisachannel4575]

@@13thBrother I agree. I'll just attribute her timidity to age. At this point Rexy is almost *40* . But yeah. Every new big bad Dino has atleast one kill to their name. Here it's just.... There.

[@OfficialAndroid-16]

Killing Malcom would make everyone cheer when the giga dies and it would be so satisfying

[@CKzoidYT]

And the only problem is that in real life a giga would no way of ever nearly dominate of a rex i know its all fake with 6 foot raptors but cmon rexy would have killed the giga the second she bit down

[@ThatHuedGuy]

Lost World did rule! I loved that movie it was my favorite one. You got to see the dinosaurs just being themselves. Baby dinosaurs too, it gave me this heart warming feel watching the stegos just casually walking through the deep forest. Beautiful scenes.

[@CriticalBrony]

What I think is so telling about this movie was that 30 years ago, InGen was a science fiction genetics engineering company that did things that seemed incredible. But 30 years later, BioSyn is basically just the Monsanto Corporation if it was slightly more evil and given a Tesla or Google skin. I think it's a really poignant meta-commentary on how different our real world is from the world that Jurassic Park came out in.

[@geronimo5537]

The whole evil corperation thing was a good call back to the original JP. In fact biosyn wanting to own all seeds is a mirror of the real life Monsanto that actively leverages farmers into buying their seeds. Else the farmers lose everything. But I do like your comment its a very true perspective. Now evil comes in a smile with bright colors while owning every facet of you. Evil back then was more about playing with things we didnt understand. Which is largely true today given the continued pursuite of sentient ai and human robotics. But I remember in the late ninities it was said we were only ten or twelve years from the return of dinosaurs through the chicken. Yet the concept has practically died despite a great technology leap through that time. I still rather have dinosaurs over irobot.

[@girlbuu9403]

1: *slightly less evil 2: What got Crichton interested in books like Jurassic Park and the criminally under rated Next was the leaps and bounds genetic engineering was making in the 70s and 80s. Like many things we are just applying something we've known about for a long time, Monsanto has been doing this shit since at least then with their suicide corn.

[@censoredbybigbrother1175]

Wait a bit more and you will see a whole other deal of reality. You know what I speak of. It is already primed into your subconcious. There is no better way to open the minds of the lowly masses to things than to brainwash them into accepting it via the screen. Why'd anyone do that you ask? Because they know you'd kill them for what the want to do to you if they were coming at you with it unprepared. Much better to make people sit infront of a screen and program they pay for than to put them in cold iron sheckles.

[@ChaserJonDoe]

It took me a while to realize why I was so disappointed in dominion. Then it finally came to me, this series has gone from the folly of man attempting to control nature and man vs. nature survival to nature vs suburbia. The dinosaurs of dominion were only background characters while the plot just went on around them, and didn't play much part in the actual story. Also didn't like that they just did away with full sized dilos, and acted like the small one was an adult. Plus the tease in the cave with the sail in the water.

[@kuhanblock9380]

Why couldn't they just have the Dilos be in the cave at least it's more plausible that they could climb a ladder than the tank of a dino the Dimetrodon

[@jimhiedeman8568]

That was a dimetrodon :)

[@just_jack2258]

Ok idk if you’ll ever read the reply, but the dinosaurs weren’t background characters bc the whole kinda like theme of the movie was to show how dinosaurs and people are going to have to learn to co-exist. So they played roles in showing how it can and cannot be that way.

[@exploringcreation1354]

The sail in the water was a dimetredon.

[@wickedhouston5538]

garbage woke movie

[@sebastianthehotsaucedude5473]

Honestly, JP was my first movie, I was born in 1991, and ending the franchise the way they did didn't sit right with me. Sure, the movie had some answers to questions, and some bad ass scenes, but overall, I felt completely unattached leaving the theater. 2.5 hours of what I can only call "pussy footing around". Edit: hands down favorite parts were the Therizinosaur scenes and the Dilophosaurs. Impaled the damn giga. Only moment in the entire movie I went "woahhhh, holy shit"

[@gamingtheory6035]

I was born in '91 as well and grew up with the JP franchise. Jurassic Park has been my favorite movie for as long as I can remember. I was really looking forward to seeing the original cast return. That really sucks to hear.

[@yapyapthedestroyer2562]

It’s a shame the dilo only had two moments. The first was its grand reappearance, only for it to be just swept aside moments later. Their second appearance was great though.

[@TaxemicFanatic]

@@gamingtheory6035 JP was my favourite too but I found enjoyment in this. My expectations were low though.

[@h.cheema7818]

I really hope the franchise continues. They should turn it into another trilogy, with final movie having, T-Rex, Owen Grady, Velociraptors, Claire, Spinosaurus, Wu & and a new hybrid thats killed off by Wu (suicide bombing or smthing) who sacrifices himself. All dinosaurs are exterminated and the world returns to normal, agreeing dinosaurs should be left extinct

[@jenniferkovalick2959]

I did like the giga getting impaled, it reminded me of Wolverine. Lol

[@tcmorris8976]

Being in my 30’s I have grown up with JP and JW I really appreciate this channel. Each movie prior to this one kept your attention and each scene change made sense even the San Diego scene in Lost World. Dominion had a lot of “that’s it” moments. The characters reminded me of Buzz Lighter in toy story 4. Dum and not knowing what to do even though in their previous movies each one had a part in saving the day. (Not their fault). And the “boss” who was scheming since JP 1 wasn’t that much of a bad guy. I And why wasn’t anyone hurrying it’s like everyone was trying to keep their heart rate down. I feel they need to do a redo. I blame the test audiences, if they even had any.

[@Ryan-uq7kj]

I liked it overall, but I did come out of it with mixed feelings. Particularly with the way that they handled the Rex and the Giga. Looking at the big picture I do think they made some good choices here: Explicitly place Giga as the biggest carnivore ever, including Spino. Have it bully Rex up until the end, then have Rex get mad and smash it ala the Hulk. Also I think it's actually good that they went back to depicting it as an actual animal like in the first two movies and not as a mustache-twirling villain like the Indos and the Spino. But why did Theri need to be at the final fight to take some of the credit for Giga's defeat? After 20+ years of disrespect this was basically their last chance to let Rex actually win 1v1 against another super heavyweight and they didn't take it. Also, if they are going to depict Giga as an actual animal then why were we led to believe that it would have a Joker-like personality? I feel like Giga's depiction would have been received better if we were just given accurate expectations. Regardless though, I did like the movie.

[@chaunsyegoats]

Giga vs spino I think spino would win

[@Dinoslay]

That’s the thing, even when the T.rex didn’t exactly kill the Indominus in the 2015 movie the former still held it’s own admirably, literally ragdolling the Indo before the Mosa came. It showed that the T.rex could still be a force of nature and something to be reckoned with. Dominion botches that up by just repeating that fight again with none of the stakes and the T.rex is once again portrayed as kinda wimpy against an animal that realistically it should have been equally matched with. EQUALLY MATCHED! Why? The Giga may have it’s size but what it doesn’t have is a bite force of several tons, a weapon that the Tyrannosaurus is well known for. None of the JW movies have shown the T.rex use that biteforce effectively. Fact is, the battle didn’t need the Therizinosaurus that already had a perfectly fine sequence before. All that the tag-team did was nerf the T.rex as something that we should able to take seriously as ”the king of the dinosaurs” especially since Dominion too lampshades it’s status as the poster child of the franchise. Seriously, WTF happened with the planning of this movie? I smell executive meddling.

[@kuhanblock9380]

I think the Spino is still a fair bit bigger than the Giga. If you've seen Camp Cretaceous the Spino seems to have grown a lot since JP3. He now looks bigger than the Indominus in comparison to the campers

[@UncleScorch]

100% agree concerning the mishandling of the Rex. Colin even expressed that this movie would give her her time in the spotlight and to shine - there is none of that in this film.

[@mrbojangles8133]

I would have cut Dodgson but have it mentioned that he was killed by biosyn to cover their tracks as he knew too much

[@FJX2000_Productions]

Glad to hear your thoughts on the movie. I also left the theater sort of feeling empty inside. Which is really a shame since I consider the Jurassic franchise my favorite and have always been a super fan. I look forward to the extended cut too and maybe even fan edits. I likewise thought the pacing was really weird and that the dialogue could have been much smoother or more natural. I also wasn’t the fan of the way certain scenes were filmed, it just didn’t feel “Jurassic” to me but that’s more of a personal preference sort of thing. And I do think the film lacked definitive 1st, 2nd, and 3rd acts which made the ending of the movie sort of feel anticlimactic. And speaking of anticlimactic, I really thought they would have made Dodgson more evil or worthy of being killed by the end, but from how his character is portrayed in JP to how he appeared here, it was quite different and he really just kind of seemed odd and selfish and bit crooked. I dunno, just wasn’t my jam personally. The concepts were there, the characters were there, the dinosaurs were there, but the story was a big flop for me.

[@georgecostanza2514]

They got someone who wrote pacific rim uprising that is why hahaha

[@quinhavieri2178]

I agree with you ! The Dodgson character was the biggest disappointment to me... He is sich a evil villain in the books. We've been waiting for so long to finally see him/Biosyn in the franchise an then: so poorly used ! What a shame!

[@msb46]

Sucks to be you the movie was very good and nery fun to watch

[@BirdAsBond]

I completely agree with most of your points. Movie needed the prologue, and the jumping from locations while they established the narrative was draggy and didn’t flow very well. However, I loved the movie because the OG actors embodied their nostalgic 90s delivery. They carried the movie! And the dinosaurs were really cool. Your suggested edits could easily turn this into a 9/10.

[@KylePoni23]

My biggest gripe is how we finally had dinosaurs on the mainland, and we ended up secluded on some island only accessible by air again. They really can't help themselves.

[@alaskajeff4068]

I gave the film a D-. It's something I'm so passionate about that I'm planning to write an example of how it should have been written, because a lot of people seem so desperate for good content that they don't even know how poorly done this film was. There was a ton of subliminal messaging through the film, there was poor plot points, massive plot holes, and missed opportunities. D-

[@bracarty1344]

What kind of subliminal messages are you referring to? Just curious.

[@Ortega570]

Yooooooooooooooo. “That felt good”. What felt good. I’m confused ???? There where so many times that type of shit happened.

[@theangrysuchomimus5163]

I think it’s because it’s not absolute garbage like most modern movies, so people seem to praise it.

[@nickw7452]

This film took the Fast and Furious spin and made Mission Impossible parents trying to 007 save a kid… with farmageddon Biosyn edition. This film had no real direction. The bad guys all found demise, hero’s faced no real harm. First JP movie had people die at random without any true bias to main character survival. If Clair, Owen, so in had a death then it would be good.

[@JeremyJamesPrutchick]

Hey Klayton! Don't worry, you're not alone! I have a LOT of mixed feelings about Dominion that I'm still trying to work out. I'm putting together something right now for a future video, but I WILL say that there were a lot of missed opportunities and most of the dinosaurs weren't used very well. I hope you're doing OK!

[@greywillowgaming2366]

Glad to finally hear your honest thoughts on Dominion. It sucks knowing you didn't enjoy it as much as you were hoping, but I'm glad you were absolutely honest about your opinions. I've only seen it once and I loved it. Upon multiple viewings, I may change my mind, but that remains to be seen. Hope you're doing ok, man. Your brief absence really worried the community. We love ya, buddy.

[@ninjareaper3577]

I read another comment and I just can't stop laughing at it, so I'll share the laughs: My favorite part was when Chris pratt looked at rexy then at the camera and said "Now this really is a dominion" and rexy looked back and pratt, winked and they both in unison said "it's jurassin time" and just jurrassed all over everything, whole theater clapped for two weeks, I still can't hear through my eardrum it was an absolute scene in this movie, topped my kids birthdays and the day I got married, /10 but the absolute scene where the original guy was like " it's rexin time" when they first saw the trex, was also a scene in this movie, totally did not want a badass fight between the trex, spino and gigasaurus, the giant tickle chicken was enough especially when it said " it's tickle chickin' time" and just tickle chickened all over that one Dino. One of the movies ever made.

[@kristophergathercoal5044]

I'm hoping a second viewing of Dominion will change my mind, but my brother and I were massively disappointed in the structure, terrible dialogue, and the less-than-subtle callbacks. This is currently my least favorite of the franchise by far. Some seasons of Camp Cretaceous were easier to take seriously. Hell, Fallen Kingdom was good enough that I was hugely excited to see it a second time. Dominion is the only JP/W movie, besides JP 3, that I left the theater being deeply dissatisfied.

[@dandino8100]

Jp3 is the best one. Spino is best

[@RickyRiiiX]

I agree .. jp 3 sucked

[@thekingghidorah93]

Honestly, I’m just happy to see you’re alright, especially in these times. Discovered your channel a few years ago when you still had the compilation of images and rock music in your intro. Got worried when I heard on the JP subreddit that you had deleted your socials and Patreon.

[@m74d3]

Did something happen to him? Is there some story I missed out on?

[@thekingghidorah93]

@@m74d3 After his last video about the Tembo easter egg, Klayton went silent for a while. He even deleted his socials and Patreon from what I’ve heard. Naturally, people got worried (most people assumed it was real life stuff, while others thought it might be criminal issues). I only heard about this when someone asked about him on the JP subreddit. Thankfully, someone shared a tweet from Dangerville, saying that he is fine and processing Dominion.

[@theeagleitarian6039]

I also saw it twice and I enjoyed it much more the second time, the first time I think it was because it really wasn't what I expected. I expected much more exploration of "dinosaurs in the wild" and that the film would be about old cast being forced to confront their traumas. The black market sort of explored this, which was fun and I'd like to have seen more of. The second time, knowing what the actual plot was, I got to sit back and just enjoy it much more. It suffers from pacing and too many cuts which turns the middle act into "dino encounter" blitz, moving way too quickly between them. I still liked it, but wish I'd got a film exploring the consequences of them in the wild.

[@duyan3010]

As a film studies/video production student… i agree with you about the editing A TON of sequences left a sour taste due to the fact that there was SUCH easy fixes to these sequences that would in my option fix them. As much as I dislike a bad movie, I dislike movies that have problems and have clear and easy fixes even more.

[@travismoore6028]

Thank you for expressing a super-fan's thoughts into a video, all points are spot on, editing could really save the future of this movie for us fans

[@seriousnesstv7902]

We’ve missed you man, had a feeling the disappointment got to you…. I feel immense dissatisfaction

[@lukeherndon5743]

Same

[@bobbystudios4014]

Fr. This was nothing the trailers/teasers made it to be. Years waiting just to have it turned into a dumb, cheaper blockbuster. Real shame

[@noahfoley5576]

Klayton I would just like like to say thank you. I’ve been a huge Jurassic fan and every time a new movie would release it would be agonizing waiting for the net. I found your channel just around the same time fallen kingdom released and as I became a much bigger fan since fallen kingdom I dont think I could have made it through the four years it took for the movie to release, or without the Jurassic community. I am so glad I found others who love this franchise and for this channel keeping me going.

[@evanmiller2562]

This review is basically and in depth detailed way of John Hammond's quote; ''I dont blame people for their mistakes. But i do ask that they pay for them''

[@xDerekRx]

I saw the movie for a second time the other day and I kept saying to my girlfriend that the prologue ( which we watched before the second viewing) would have been perfect to start the movie and really helped it. In fact, the drive-in scene is in the commercials and it's kind of disappointing when you don't see it in the actual movie, especially when you're watching it at the drive-in like we were. Overall though, even though I agree with most problems that people bring up about this film, I also agree with most of the fans that say it's fun. It wasn't a huge "EndGame" conclusion that we thought it was going to be. Ended up being more of a fan service movie. However, the original cast is really good, especially Jeff Goldblum. The new dinosaurs are awesome. The Therizinosaurus scene honestly might be my second favorite scene in the entire franchise after the T-Rex breakout from JP1. So yeah, once you get over the expectations the movie's kind of fun. Definitely much better than Fallen Kingdom which I've grown to appreciate a bit more. I think in the end there will be a lot more shows and movies to fill out the story. But Dominion will always probably have this place of a fun side. Little movie adventure. Something I go back to for fun like JP3. I am super excited though for a director's cut. Really hope there is one as has been rumored something like a 3-hour version that fleshes out more stuff

[@bobbystudios4014]

Idk man, this movie really just wasn't what they sold it. This was meant to be so much grand and deep and from the trailers and teasers, it seemed to just made as an entire different movie, and what we got instead was just underwhelming and confusing. Too many plotlines, too little character development, really messed up 1st act and horribly passed second act. The list goes on. I'm glad to hear your thoughts as someone who I watched before the movie a lot. I feel people like me who were really following this movie before it came out are the ones that will be most disappointed.

[@Trlpmp8307]

I think alot of my thoughts closely align with you Klayton on this movie. I too have a bad taste in the first act where it just seemed rushed, but my real gripe is the loss of opportunity with so many quick introductions of new species to only be quickly disregarded. I kept thinking after I saw this movie why the first Jurassic park was so profound to me besides the obvious first of its kind and shell shock of seeing legit dinosaurs! To me, the first did a great job of introducing dinosaurs in a way that you got a relative immersion into them and because the movie was not so saturated with action that you could digest the moments more. I am a big JP/JW guy like most of us here, but I just left the movie last weekend with the thought that I dont know if I have it in me to see it a second time even if it was for free or on tv. I think if this could have been slowed down in terms of time in with the new dinos and allow for more concerns of general logistics to come to life during that journey instead of a quick sprint, I could have probably latched onto this one more. I can appreciate the content and what this brings, but for a three hour movie I wish they had cut 1/3 of the new material and drawn out more of the guts of the film.

[@margogoralski6294]

Agreed.

[@youngstay2989]

It was kinda warm listening to your voice after 1 month, I remember going in a rabbit hole of your videos with Chaos effect and more ^^

[@selenaq24]

It makes me wonder just how much footage was scrapped from this film since it was worked on for two years. I just saw the film and I actually liked it a lot being a big fan of the series who was able to pick out all the subtle references to the other films. But I totally agree the first act seemed quite jumbled. And there were certainly moments that came out of nowhere and since the movie moved so quickly, it was easy to dismiss for the sake of following along with the action. But overall I’d personally give the film a 7.5-8/10 because it was definitely enjoyable. I wish they’d talked more about Isla Nublar and also what about tbr Spinosaurus?! 😂 anyway, great points, great video, dude 😁👍

[@flamesofgames3986]

Honestly I agree with you on this one. I quite enjoyed fallen kingdom, that opening scene where the mosasaur eats the guy on the chopper sold me. I feel that movie set this one up well, but then dominion threw it all out the window and just went for the locust thing. I came to watch a movie where dinosaurs eat people in cool ways and got oh no the CEO of Apple has brought back prehistoric locusts that are causing a famine! They included a lot of dinosaurs just didn’t do anything with them.

[@wildanimations]

exactly what i was thinking! I loved the dinosaurs and actors and all, but the whole point of Dominion was "dinosaurs actually ruling the world" not locusts. Like locusts arent even dinosaurs, prehistoric or not. The point of Jurassic World is dinosaurs, not giant bugs. that's my biggest problem.

[@icrichton8955]

Well said

[@Mr_Tea_Rexx]

their were deaths in the movie tbh i really enjoyed the movie tbh

[@carnotaurus_hex]

This 👆

[@channelgrantito7662]

Glad to know you're still alive Klayton! I felt pain after leaving this movie because of how bad it was, missing the mark on so many fronts and having the worst ending to a Jurassic film possible. On the bright side, the downfall of this film has inspired me to get back to work on Chaos At Curwood, so you and the rest of JP community can get all of the Carnotaurus action that Dominion lacked. Let's hope we get a good series!

[@Bigbear-pi7nv]

i agree. i think they spent to much time worrying about ways to make it more nostalgic rather than focusing on making a fluid and exciting plot

[@GeoffTheOddball]

I think the movie was much too safe... You knew none of the characters were in any danger. You know they were going to make it out alright in the end. Personally I would've been fine with a main character or two being killed off in a believable way...like when the giga is sitting there just ree-ing at 7 people and Malcolm tosses the flaming locust on a stick into its mouth. What if he did that and distracted the giga for the others to escape, except that Malcolm gets grabbed trying to catch up. A worthy sacrifice so to speak. It's like they were scared to take risks with their characters. It was boring.

[@octaneuser4096]

I agree

[@jaegershoemaker8959]

I hope there‘s a 3 hour version of this movie when it releases on Blu ray. It feels like there are a few scenes that would flesh out the narrative cohesion.

[@lunathekuduruk1311]

Only 14 more minutes which is 5 of the prologue lol

[@jackmyowl]

One sentence is needed: This should have been 2+ parts.

[@ryanphillips4218]

4 minutes in and gotta say I think this movie got the transformers treatment. Introduce a bunch of new dinos to sell toys. I work in retail stocking them and lord are there a ton I'd never heard of until movie came out.

[@justinnicholas9014]

I can't believe (and was so disappointed) that they didn't bring back Spino. They literally set it up perfectly - "All the animals from Sorna were brought here". I was just waiting for it to show up during the T-Rex Giga fight.

[@chrisgranorealtor]

Agreed 100% with just about everything you said, PLUS---I just felt like the characters (aside from Claire) rarely felt truly terrified. The Giga scene felt flat to me, it seemed to stalk them super slowly and they didn't really seem to be that concerned with getting away from it as quickly as possible, and in the midst of it all, Owen cracks a joke? It felt more like watching characters on a Theme Park Ride rather than people TRULY terrified for their lives--which is what JP always felt like. I also had a real hard time with some of the plot points: #1) NO ONE in the U.S. Government except a random farmer and Ellie notice that the only crops the locusts aren't eating are BioSyn crops? And once Ellie discovers this, she can't alert the FBI/USDA rather than trying to transition from a Paleobotanist into a spy and accomplish some secret mission? #2) Somehow, brand new CIA recruits have Top Secret Clearance and can share it with their friends? And then their friends join in on the sting? I will accept Owen doing some of the crazy shit he does because he's an ex Navy Seal, but Claire (a former corporate executive) is all of a sudden an action hero? #3) Where was all the mayhem from dinosaurs being unleashed on the world??? that was the whole tease of this movie. #4) And probably most important.....LOCUSTS?? C'MON. This is a DINOSAUR MOVIE. Ugh. Ok, Rant Over. So frustrated. Hated it. I rank it worse than JP3.

[@dippy_1999]

The worst movie from the franchise yet. I also agree with you on the Giga scene, which I completely was sucked out of when the Giga was beaten by a taser.

[@lunathekuduruk1311]

there was a cut part where ellie said "no no no no" it was pretty fearful to me

[@hantbill6462]

Why does everyone hate it? I saw it today and, in my opinion, it's even better than the original jurassic park movie, and im not joking or something

[@lunathekuduruk1311]

@@hantbill6462 yeah sure bro you probably liked morbius too

[@hantbill6462]

@@lunathekuduruk1311 I did not saw Morbius but I do liked jurassic world dominion and for me, it was the best in franchis.

[@tcrazy4796]

I feel like the biggest problem with Dominion is that they tried to cram a mini series worth of plot into a single movie. Also poor Rexy just can't get a win in this series. The biggest thing she's taken down by herself is the Carno in Fallen Kingdom. It doesn't even need to be a crazy, over the top confrontation like Obi-wan vs Anakin or Goku vs Frieza, but that fight was super short and anti-climactic. Also very dark. Like I could kinda make out what was going on dark. Overall I enjoyed the movie but was let down by it.

[@utahraptor700]

Yeah I think if they at least let rexie put in more damage on the giga before she got overwhelmed would have improved that issue. She got defeated so easily that I was honestly debating whether or not this even was rexie or just some other rex entirely. In Jurassic World, rexie at least did something to the I-Rex before she got overwhelmed.

[@animalguyanimalguy270]

Yea I agree but let’s not forget Rexy is way older than she was in the I Rex fight

[@nobodyyummyfish7276]

@@utahraptor700 Rexy is old tho

[@utahraptor700]

@@nobodyyummyfish7276 Yeah I know. I did tell myself that, but I still didn't like seeing her go down so easy

[@JH-uh9zc]

I really agree, especially after how the director was hyping the "underdog story". Apparently tho the fight was going to be different. Bits of it was there but changed such as the rex being "more intelligent" and playing dead. The Giga was going to get distracted by the flare gun but no other dino was coming in. Rexi was going to surprise attack and grab its neck snapping it, harking back to JP 3 and the fact that T-rex has the strongest bite force of any animal. I think even a character (Grant??) would mention it as they flew away, similar to how he keeps saying how big the Giga is all thought the movie. I think I read this last year on Reddit??? It's probably fake, but would have made the fighter better and more in line with Trevorrow's statements and prologue. I think the Giga was going to kill minor Biosyn employees but toy with them, showing the "Joker" side.

[@dcaldwell24]

First off, after watching this movie, I wanted to see your thoughts haha. I feel your review was sincere to the franchise and genuine as a critic and a fan. I feel the Malta scenes were rushed, would of loved maybe a min more worth of explanation of the black market. But it was really rushed where the carnos were loose eating people. The Biosyn controlling plants, to me was a nob to the whole 80s Monsanto patenting life with crop seeds. While overall I enjoyed the movie, I was not a fan of the Giga scene around the jeep, to me, it played on the Rex scene from the original and stole a possible "uniqueness" from the Giga, bc it was a similar scene to the rex. Been watching you for years sir, appreciate all your work and efforts!