![]() ![]() And there is wall-to-wall action that makes the almost two and a half hour runtime go by swiftly. I can’t say I didn’t have some real fun with “Dominion.” There is an exceedingly well-done motorcycle chase through the streets of Taos, immense pleasure in watching Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum together again and the fun addition of a hotshot pilot played by DeWanda Wise. ![]() But now, somehow, we’re six movies and three decades in and about as far as one could get from the spark that made that first one so special as we supposedly bid farewell to the “Jurassic World” era with “ Jurassic World: Dominion.” It’s hard to fault anyone for trying to recapture that magic - a filmmaker, a studio, or an audience looking for a fun time at the movies. It doesn’t even matter how many times you watch it, or how much better special effects get: “Jurassic Park” never tarnishes, it just remains perfectly preserved in amber. Most everyone, it seems, including those who were adults at the time and those who wouldn’t be born for another decade or more, has a story about just how much that movie means to them. And it wasn’t just the 10-year-olds having a formative experience at the movie theater. Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film implanted itself into our cultural consciousness as a kind of platonic ideal of a blockbuster. The enduring, collective love for “Jurassic Park” is immensely hard to explain.
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