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An adventure 65 million years in the making comes to a conclusion this weekend when "Jurassic World: Dominion" stomps into theaters.

"'Jurassic World: Dominion' is not only trying to bridge the gap between trilogies, but also between demographics," Bock said. "And so, that's a very powerful thing to reach that kind of cultural status beyond just a cinematic moment." "It really is trying to honor the entirety of the franchise. They are actually fully integrated into the narrative of the movie," Moses said. Its impact — much like the film's famous scene where reverberations in a glass of water It notched $18 million domestically in preview screenings on Thursday night.

Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern. Rating: M. In Cinemas: Now. 2.5 stars. As we all know, the Jurassic Park ...

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The final film in the Jurassic World trilogy wants to be the franchise's Mission: Impossible. Instead, it's the anti–Top Gun: Maverick.

A lengthy, harrowing sequence with two pairs of military-trained raptors chasing Owen on a motorcycle and Claire and Kayla in a truck loses steam once it becomes clear that the raptors never will. The middle movie, Fallen Kingdom, was directed by J.A. Bayona, a proficient artist who at least invested his installment with striking images and evocations of Spielbergian tension and excitement: achievements Trevorrow can’t begin to touch. Dominion is directed by Colin Trevorrow, who also directed the 2015 Jurassic World and co-wrote all three films. Life finds a way in at least one case, but that seems to be the exception.) If there were 10,000 dinosaurs of all species combined to start with, it would be a lot—and that’s before the predators started picking off the others and one another. Of course Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are back as, respectively, velociraptor trainer Owen Grady and former Jurassic World park manager Claire Dearing. I don’t even know where to start with them, so let me go back to the returning players for a moment. Now she’s a guerrilla zealot liberating dinosaurs from shady operators and also a mama bear living in the woods helping to raise a special teenaged girl named Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon), whose genetic history makes her important to powerful people for mysterious reasons that turn out to be one of the stupidest conceits in this deeply stupid film. Jurassic World Dominion can’t even manage to carry on the themes and trajectories of its immediate predecessor, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, let alone any of the prior Jurassic films. The one thing Dominion has going for it is the mark of all true legacyquels, at least as the term was originally defined: beloved, aging stars reprising classic roles. And all of this relates to a malicious corporate scheme that a 12-year-old would realize an 8-year-old would see through, and a ridiculously labyrinthine whistleblower plot to blow a whistle that could be more easily blown any number of ways.) (Many have argued that the bids seen in Fallen Kingdom’s elite auction sequence, in the mere tens of millions, were absurdly low.) Dominion also features a black-market setting, located on the European island nation of Malta—but, far from catering to an ultrawealthy clientele, it’s a rough, sleazy joint with booths grilling dino meat and a dogfighting-style pit for, you know. The word “dominion” is uttered once in Jurassic World Dominion, in an oblique, irreverent allusion to Genesis 1. It turns out that there’s a rationale for the speech, sort of, but it’s the kind of thing that merely pushes the incoherence back a step.

When news broke that Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum would be returning as Dr. Alan Grant, Dr. Ellie Sattler, and Dr. Ian Malcolm (respectively), it ...

Jurassic World: Dominion doesn’t shy away from the nostalgia and doesn’t act like these characters don’t mean a lot to us, and it works in the movie’s favor—and now I want more (even if I know that this is the end). So there hasn’t been a return to the franchise for all three of them in nearly 20 years, and with the Jurassic World trilogy being focused more on Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing, it felt like we might not get to see much of them anyway (especially since Ian Malcolm was briefly featured in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom for one scene). I absolutely loved Jurassic World: Dominion, and fully because I am but a humble servant to the dino franchise.