Like “Top Gun: Maverick” before it, the 2022 film “Jurassic World Dominion” is another legacy sequel that crushed the box office … but this one didn’t fare quite as well with critics. The sixth movie in the overall franchise and third in the modern “Jurassic World” films that star Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, “Jurassic World Dominion” envisions a world where regenerated dinosaurs share the earth with humans, including former Jurassic World employees and dinosaur advocates Owen Grady (Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Dallas Howard). Their world is turned upside down when their young ward Maisie (Isabella Sermon), the biological granddaughter of Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) from the original films, is kidnapped, alongside a baby velociraptor Maisie has dubbed Beta … and suddenly, Owen and Claire find themselves battling the evil corporation Biosyn to get the two back.
When it comes to reviews, “Jurassic World Dominion” was an undisputed bomb; with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 29%, the consensus reads, “‘Jurassic World Dominion’ might be a bit of an improvement over its immediate predecessors in some respects, but this franchise has lumbered a long way down from its classic start.” Apparently, that did nothing to dissuade audiences, who helped the sequel cross just slightly over the billion-dollar threshold and cemented the movie as a bona-fide box office success, reviews aside.
