By Steve Crum
If Jurassic World Dominion doesn’t tease your Pterodactyl…doesn’t bend your Brontosaurus…doesn’t rattle your Raptor, you have no business calling yourself a dinosaur movie fanatic. That established, I AM a dinosaur movie fanatic. Here is a nearly non-stop, sci-fi action flick that is on prehistoric overload.
Think of it as a glorious 146-minutes packed with every creature that has ever appeared in the previous five films of the Jurassic franchise…plus a few new creepies. (Say hello to destructive locusts the size of small dogs.)
Be assured that JWD is in good hands. This is Colin Trevorrow’s third Jurassic World film as director, 
as well as his third time writing the screenplay. Dominion is the sequel to Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom (2018), set four years later. Now the myriad number of creatures are no longer confined to a remote island or theme park. (Isla Nublar has been destroyed.) The creatures reside worldwide, living with humans as pets and even cattle—not unlike steers.
However, all is not ideal. For example, the film includes a sad scene, set in Malta, in which dinosaurs are sold and forced into combat with other dinosaurs, a la cockfighting.
Segue to the opening sequence wherein Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) is shown at his remote ranch on horseback, ridin’ & ropin’ with a herd of Parsaurolophus. It is now part of accepted ranch life. There are also subplot surprises involving Grady’s favorite Velociraptor—who happens to live in the woods nearby.
In fact, there are so many primary characters featured that screen scribes Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael had to divide the colorful tale into two concurrent plots, allowing the viewer to get dizzyingly involved. It is a fun ride.
Add those aforementioned characters with three from the first Jurassic Park trilogy: Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), and Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill). All are 
well played. The latter unites to solve the impending worldwide food shortage brought on by an evil, money grubbing Biosyn CEO billionaire, Dr. Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott).
Dodgson is also behind the kidnapping of teen Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon), who is the adoptive daughter of Grady and his girlfriend Clair Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard).
Along the way are helpful encounters with a couple of good folks: DeWanda Wise’s Kayla Watts, a rough and tumble former Air Force pilot…and Mamoudou Athie’s Ramsay Cole, Biosyn’s Head of Communications.
The Jurassic World music is once again handled well by composer Michael Giacchino—with John Williams’ original Jurassic Park theme weaved in.
It has been rumored that Jurassic World Dominion is the grand finale of all the Jurassic movies. The fact is Dominion is Part 3 of the World 
trilogy. But is it the very last film? Is there another trilogy in the plans? Stay, as they say, tuned.
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Just a personal addendum: My favorite dinosaur, Dilophosarus, shows up a couple of times in JWD. That curious, homicidal guy/gal, last seen in the very first Jurassic Park film, is the one who spits blinding, tar-looking venom into one’s eyes. How quaint.
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GRADE on an A-F Scale: A