Jurassic World Dominion

Goldblum aside, it's hard not to feel that the warm-blooded actors are phoning it in a bit.

Dominion answers the question "What if dinosaurs became so commonplace they were no longer exciting?" by making even the most unique dinosaur encounters so routine and uninspiring that even the people involved cannot muster enthusiasm to be frightened.

While there’s never really a sense of true danger for our heroes, we get just enough of the range of CGI dinosaurs and their weird traits to keep the film entertaining.

Jurassic World Dominion is an aggressively fine and mostly enjoyable romp that does some things well and others things less so. It’s the epitome of just OK.

Ho hum.

For a while it seems ‘Dominion’ wants to be the franchise’s ‘Mission: Impossible.’ Instead, it’s the anti–‘Top Gun: Maverick’.

After a slow and choppy start, the action picks up to a brisk pace and is unrelenting straight through to the final — somewhat sappy — montage.

I have always admired the sense of urgency and danger this franchise was able to bring to the table. Unfortunately this uninspired sequel has overstayed its welcome due to its overdrawn runtime.

This latest offering in the franchise is a painful failure. Gone is all of the magic of the original movie having been replaced by a convoluted story, tired characters and a technology that now seems archaic.

Written by Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael, Jurassic World's narrative is an oddball situation, and almost feels as if two films have been haphazardly mashed together.