Every Jurassic Park Movie Ranked Worst To Best

The only reason Fallen Kingdom ranks higher than Dominion is because director J. A. Bayona - unlike Dominion's bland hired gun Colin Trevorrow - was actually able to inject some style into an otherwise miserable movie.

Embracing a much more menacing tone than previous films, the sequel features several tense moments with genuinely memorable imagery. Unfortunately, these brief splashes of brilliance are quickly overshadowed by the movie's painfully poor story, which might just be the most hilariously nonsensical of the series.

With its melodramatic cloning subplot, one-note villainy, and repetitive themes that previous movies handled with much more finesse and depth, Fallen Kingdom manages to feel both over-the-top yet bland, aiming for emotional but emerging silly and forced.

Bayona deserves credit for elevating such a schlocky script, but there's not much else worth noting in the first Jurassic World sequel besides Jeff Goldblum's too-small cameo appearance and its gothic inspirations. It tries something new to keep the franchise fresh, but none of its risks really payoff.