Jurassic World Dominion has some great action-packed scenes, set in breathtaking locales

Jurassic World Dominion, as the name suggests, tries to cover much land and sea to take us on an adventurous journey four years after Isla Nublar is destroyed (Jurassic World 2015).

From Bering Sea in the East of Alaska to Sierra Nevada Mountains (Spain) to Utah (America) to Malta (Europe) and then Italy, the film covers it all, taking us on action- packed chase after a science experiment goes wrong.

It exposes human’s greed to control everything as now there’s an underground racket that owns and trains dinosaurs for their gain, thanks to the previous scientists’ failure to control dinosaurs in a synthetic ecosystem. As dinosaurs now inhabit alongside humans in a concrete jungle, rescuing them is the task which experienced Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) take upon themselves.

A corrupt bio-engineering corporation, Biosyn, led by Lewis Dodgson, creates another problem besides mismanaging the dinosaurs, devising a new locust species to deprive the world of food. But step in the heroes of 1993 Jurassic Park movie, Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Elli (Laura Dern) and Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldlum) and handle it with competence. The old and the new cast blend seamlessly in this well-written script. Jeff with his humour and comic timing keeps us engaged. The great chase scenes where those trained dinosaurs hunt Claire and Owen, take us all over Malta and what a delight it is!

However, the last fight between T-rex and the Gigantosaurus looks forced, as it brings back the memory of the last film’s successful climax. Only watching raptor Blue and seeing her reunite with Beta (the offspring Blue) makes for a tearful moment.

While the film has some great action-packed scenes, including the mandatory helicopter crash, the film falls flat because of its fast pace. Too many angles in the plot make it chaotic, to say the least. Nostalgia saves the franchise from falling into oblivion but the world has had enough of the dinosaurs-men conflicts. The film’s takeaway — co-existing. Let’s rest it on that.