Jurassic World: Dominion Summaries

SPOILERS FOR JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION.
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Part 1
Today, I was finally able to see Jurassic World: Dominion in theaters, and there is a lot to talk about. So, as a result, I will make multiple posts instead of one, just so it isn't one single humongous, long post.


1.
In the four years since the events of Fallen Kingdom, dinosaurs now roam free around the world, in part of Maisie Lockwood who set them free, as well as illegal black marketing from several places including the Lockwood Manor, and illegal cloning. Claire and Owen, associates with the DFW, task themselves with protecting the dinosaurs from illegal parties. Biosyn Genetics, the rival of InGen since the original Jurassic Park, was posed as a pharmaceutical organization to find new cures for diseases from the dinosaur genes. But its CEO, Lewis Dodgson, has a darker secret in play...

2.
The giant sized locusts are Biosyn created from strains of extinct Cretaceous locust DNA, secretly designed to eat all rival crops so that theirs are competitive. In addition, as the heros put it along the way, Biosyn was all but corporate corruption.

But luckily, the heroes were to stop them from doing so. A whistleblower from Biosyn, Ramsay Cole, and the trio of heroes of both the JP trilogy (Dr. Grant, Dr. Satler, and Dr. Malcom) and the JW triogy (Claire, Owen, and Maisie). Just as Trevorrow and the actors put it, their stories intertwine with one another, starting off as their own branches before coming together. Trevorrow said he wanted this to be a conclusion for fans of both trilogies with both main trilogy hero casts coming together.

3.
Cole was an employee for Biosyn who discovered their dark secrets and planned to stop their conspiracy, starting with Dr. Ian Malcom who was also hired by Biosyn. Malcom would then contact Elle Sattler to come help him.

Dr. Sattler is a mother of two children as seen in Jurassic Park III, but she and her husband are now divorced. And because of this, she willfully returned to what she loves best: Paleobotany. And it was her of the show's hero cast who begun monitoring the Biosyn locusts and their potential effects on the Earth's ecology and crops. She then invites Dr. Alan Grant to join her to Biosyn as he is who she trusts most, and at the end, they finally come together as a couple.

Claire Dearing and Owen Grady, associates with the DFW to ensure the safety of the dinosaurs from greedy bad guys, are adoptive parents to Maisie Lockwood, a girl whom they try to protect from the outside world so the bad parties don't capture her.

Maisie is captured however, alongside Beta (the offspring of Blue), by Biosyn contracts to be both taken to their sanctuary facility. Owen and Claire track her to Malta as their first stop where they find Owen's friend and former co-worker of Jurassic World, Barry, and pilot Kayla Watts. After causing havoc of a local black market, Owen, Claire, and Kayla travel to Italy, the location of Biosyn's sanctuary valley to rescue Maisie.

As it turns out, Dr. Henry Wu was the one responsible for wanting Maisie and Beta at Biosyn in the first place. All this is for him to observe how both Beta's and Maisie's DNA can help stop the genetically modified locusts for good.

Beta was bread through a form of parthenogenesis, because Blue has monitor lizard DNA in her, and it's confirmed years ago that monitor lizard DNA is what gives both raptors the trademark patterns that distinguish themselves from other Velociraptors.

Maisie Lockwood is revealed to not be a clone made by Benjamin to replace his deceased daughter. That was just a fabrication to protect her secrets that even she doesn't know about until now. She is really the daughter of Benjamin's daughter, Charlette, who worked and lived on Isla Sorna during its heyday, created by using her own DNA to make Maisie inside her, but subsequently at the cost of her life from a genetic disease. She manipulated Maisie's DNA so she can live a full life, and it is hers and Beta's DNA Wu wants to see if they hold the key to figuring out how to stop the locusts, the terrible mistake he has made.

Dr. Wu is not an evil villain, he is just someone who is over himself and whom the real villains exploit for their own corrupt greed (just as it has always been since Jurassic World), as BD Wong explained in an interview earlier this year.
 
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Part 2

4.
There are a total of 30 dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Dominion, including 7 non-dinosaurs.

1. Brachiosaurus
2. Apatosaurus
3. Carnotaurus
4. Allosaurus
5. Baryonyx
6. Parasaurolophus
7. Sinoceratops
8. Triceratops
9. Nasutoceratops
10. Compsognathus
11. Stegosaurus
12. Ankylosaurus
13. Stygimoloch
14. Gallimimus
15. Atrociraptor
16. Pyroraptor
17. Velociraptor
18. Tyrannosaurus rex
19. Giganotosaurus
20. Therizinosaurus
21. Microceratus
22. Lystrosaurus
23. Dimetrodon
24. Dilophosaurus
25. Quetzalcoatlus
26. "Prehistoric Locust"
27. Mosasaurus
28. Dreadnoughtus
29. Moros intrepidus
30. Iguanodon

The movie shows some answers of some questions I've seen predominantly through out the timespan. For instance, the Parasaurolophus new variants are at least alluded to be not Biosyn created (which I knew was too good to be true since it didn't make fundamental sense), but a variant of mysterious origin as stated by the DPW on the Dino Tracker website. The Dilophosaurus that attacked Claire was at eye level not because it was larger than in Jurassic Park, as they were all the same average size as before, but because she was sitting down on the ground against an observation tower in fear, where one of them in turn was able to look at her at eye level. The "spinosaurus" reflection at Kayla's windshield shown in Dominion ads/commercials from elsewhere was actually the T.Rex's reflection instead, albeit distorted because of the glass.
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In April of this year, Colin Trevorrow said in an interview on Empire magazine he wanted the Giganotosaurus to "feel like the Joker" adding "it just wants to watch the world burn." The reaction on the vocal internet was, let's just say, an overreaction. He did not mean that literally. It was just a figure of speech, where words or phases are used only for rhetorical effect.
Interestingly enough, the Oviraptor, which did appear in the prologue, didn't make a single appearance in the retail film itself. I thought it would because everything else in the short was confirmed to do so.

5.
The dinosaurs of Biosyn's sanctuary are from 3 major sources. Some are from Isla Sorna (including the T.Rex pair from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, as Colin Trevorrow confirmed), some are transported by other governments (including the DFW such as with the T.Rex herself), and some are created by Biosyn themselves. And speaking of being made themselves, all the dinosaurs they made are said to be 100% pure. No gene splicing with other animals.

In fact, Colin Trevorrow confirmed since 2021 that the presence of feathers in the film's dinosaurs are due to the fact they have no frog DNA in them which precluded them from having so. This is why the T.Rex in the film's prologue, despite looking the same as in the present in a basic sense as Trevorrow didn't want it to look too radically different, had feathers on its body and the ones in the present don't. This would suggest the feathered dinosaurs in the film are 100% pure with no gene splicing to make them show their true feathers.

One dinosaur, the Moros intrepidus, which is shown to be made by Biosyn, is Trevorrow's favorite dinosaur because of its small size. When writing Dominion, he and the team found a paper that was published at the time the movie's writing phase and saw the opportunity to add a species that was discovered (or technically, "described" in this case) months early into writing and they were able to do it.

6.
Since 2019, there were several rumored dinosaurs suggested to appear in Dominion. Some of these turned out to be true, while a couple others, not so much.

Those were
Plesiosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Deinonychus, and Spinosaurus. Several sources were used as a reference to say why all said four dinos will be in it. In fact, you may remember this for example:
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A perfect example as to why you should never trust leaks, no matter how accurate they turn out at the end of the day. Fake or real. Because they don't contain a full accurate context of what to expect.
 
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Part 3

7.
Ever since the earlier days of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous's airing, it's been hinted by producers that the film will connect in some way to the TV show itself. And it turns out, I did catch some things related to the show. Contrary to what some I found suggested or joked around, there are no human (ex: the kids) or dinosaur (ex: Bumpy or Toro) characters, no appearance or mention of Mantah Corp, no BRAD-like robots, none of that direct stuff. Instead, it's a basic theme that the said shadow organization was doing,

Specifically, the animal cruelty of the dinosaurs, such as fights against one another, and neural implants to make them do something that's not of their will. Such things were present in both Malta's black market, and Biosyn's sanctuary respectively.

There were also rumors that the Carnotaur, featured in both the end of Fallen Kingdom and in Dominion's Malta segment, is Toro himself because of somewhat similar colors. But after looking at them closely, as well as spotting no trademark gash scar on its right cheek in both a trailer and more clearly in the retail movie itself, well...

"There goes that theory..."

I knew it was too good to be true the whole time.

8.
There were several references in the film that I caught. Such as the resonating chamber of a velociraptor from JPIII in Grant's tent, the Barbasol can from the original Jurassic Park, and even the death scene for Lewis Dodgson by Dilophosauruses on his train, similar to how it was to Denis Nedry!

9.
One of JWD's subplots confirmed by Colin Trevorrow is the rivalry of two apex predators, the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Giganotosaurus. 65 million years ago in the prologue (which is not at all seen in the final film as perfectly stated, with the modern day Rex scene from the short used in the trailers were used only for trailer purposes), the two beasts had a rivalry in which the Giga raised victorious over the Rex. But both individuals would then be confirmed to be resurected to the present to continue the rivalry. The T.Rex herself is said in Trevorrow's interviews to be the clone of the original rex that was killed by the Giga in the past, with the mosquito that sucked its blood be the way how she comes to be in the human world since Jurassic Park.

The two beasts in the film were rivals in the same place, shown where the Rex scavenges a dead deer the territorial Therizinosaurus killed off from its path and the Giga stealing it by driving her away.

This long ancient rivalry would eventually end of course, with the T.Rex shoving the giga aside right into the deadly claws of the Therizinosaurus.

It has been debated in the vocal internet whether the T.Rex herself would die. But she doesn't. Beaten up good, but lives on after "seeking her revenge". After all, I knew she wouldn't die because of Colin Trevorrow's quotes in interviews way back in June 2021, right when the special IMAX preview was announced, that would become the prologue short film months later:

"Hopefully she'll be able to live in peace. I just want her to live in peace, man." - Trevorrow, Collider

"I want her to live in peace. That's all I want for her. So hopefully, the audience will want the same thing." - Trevorrow, Slashfilm
 
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Part 4
10.
Jurassic World Dominion is the final film of the main storyline. There were several parts that were nerve racking, exciting, funny, and thrilling. The whole film was such a trill to me personally, and after the it ended, the whole theater where I was clapped. There were even parts where I had tears forming in my eyes, but not dripping, like where Grant revealed himself, the part where Sattler and Grant kiss to show they're together now, and the very ending where dinosaurs coexist naturally in our modern world. I was so excited to see it since last night, and let me tell you all.

Totally worth it!
 
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It's good to see you enjoyed the experience.

I personally found it the weakest movie of the trilogy after watching yesterday. The first half in particular was hurt a fair bit by jumping around so much. I found myself wondering what type of movie this is even supposed to be at one point.

At the end of the day, it feels like a pretty long film that they already cut down a lot, maybe it would have benefitted from being split in two and expanded on (annoying as that trend is for modern sagas).

I'm still going to buy the DVD, maybe it'll grow on me over time.
 
It's good to see you enjoyed the experience.

I personally found it the weakest movie of the trilogy after watching yesterday. The first half in particular was hurt a fair bit by jumping around so much. I found myself wondering what type of movie this is even supposed to be at one point.

At the end of the day, it feels like a pretty long film that they already cut down a lot, maybe it would have benefitted from being split in two and expanded on (annoying as that trend is for modern sagas).

I'm still going to buy the DVD, maybe it'll grow on me over time.

Same here. Thought it was terrible. And the dinosaur designs are ridiculous. :/
 
The main "Locust" plot is a big win for me. The real, "tangible" danger of bioengineering - a very "Crichton" style. Sadly too obvious at the beginning.
On the other hand - dinos are just the background. They are present, and even try to kill (and/or eat) the main characters but they are just fillers.
The "Owen_Claire_Maisie" makes material for another movie, and should be done this way.

Nobody would watch "Jurassic World: Locust" so they put dinos in it. A bit disappointing.
 
Just watched it; loved it! As someone who feels the original is thoroughly overrated, I dare say this may be my favorite in the series! So wonderful it wasn't just another "stuck with monster dinosaurs, must escape monster dinosaurs" routine. The story was so much more in line with the original novel; its not about the dinosaurs, it's about dangerous abuse of genetic power and a greedy people who put money and ambition ahead of the obvious threats... dinosaurs just work well with the theme. There was so much more world building this time; easily more than the previous five movies combined. Again, totally loved it!
 
Crazy to overrate a movie that is considered one of the best of all time. Wonder what you look for in movies...
 
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