Jurassic World: Dominion Review - 4 Ups & 6 Downs

Downs...

6. The BRUTAL Pacing & Runtime

With a 146-minute runtime, Dominion is by far the longest film in the series, clocking in at almost 20 minutes longer than the next-lengthiest entry, The Lost World.

And while that runtime might suggest an epic, action-packed extravaganza to see the series off, in reality this is an aggressively turgid, grotesquely overstuffed film in which seemingly no ideas were left on the cutting room floor.

For starters, the pacing from scene to scene is wildly inconsistent: endless exposition-filled dialogues drag on forever, while other supposedly meaningful character moments are choppily rushed through.

Then there's the sheer overabundance of leaden subplots, with co-writers Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael (Pacific Rim: Uprising) patently overestimating how much audiences care about the Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) character introduced in Fallen Kingdom.

The result is a film that's more exhausting than entertaining, filled to the brim with guff you probably won't care about with only a scattering of genuinely thrilling action to compensate.