Jurassic World: Dominion Review - 4 Ups & 6 Downs

4. The TERRIBLE Giant Locusts Plot

You know what nobody needed in a Jurassic Park movie? Giant locusts, that's what.

Without going into too much detail, the central apocalyptic narrative is actually centered less around dinosaurs than it is a species of genetically engineered, cartoonishly large locusts which have been created by the movie's overarching villain, Biosyn CEO Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott), to let him take control of the global food supply.

Even ignoring the fact that Dodgson himself - a minor character from the first film who inexplicably reappears here - is a dull antagonist clearly intended to parody tech magnates like Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk, shifting the focus away from the dinosaurs towards this inane plot is a grave mistake on Trevorrow's part.

The result is that the dinos often feel like an afterthought in their own movie, with the Giganotosaurus - the primary dino antagonist - getting barely any screen time at all.

While it was certainly a bold attempt to do something different with the series, like the ill-advised clone subplot in Fallen Kingdom it falls totally flat while dominating large swaths of the movie.