All 6 Jurassic Park movies ranked from worst to best

5. Jurassic World Dominion

There was a lot of anticipation heading into Jurassic World Dominion. For starters, it was the final movie in the Jurassic World trilogy and audiences were intrigued as to how the franchise would play with the idea of dinosaurs outside of the island (in the Jurassic World, if you will). Adding to that, it also featured the long-awaited returns of Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum as their Jurassic Park characters, as it was set to close not one but two chapters in the franchise’s history.

From all of that, you can probably guess that there was a lot of pressure on its shoulders to succeed. The results were quite mixed though, with fans responding well to the returning Jurassic Park characters but not so much to the rather odd subplot involving locusts.

Dominion also struggled with pacing issues like its predecessor, which can be easier to overlook in these movies when the main characters are trapped outdoors with the dinosaurs because there stakes are higher and there is an increased sense of tension. But here, there were just too many long, drawn-out indoor scenes with low stakes and too much dialogue. We get it, the big bad guys in the big bad companies are corrupt. That doesn’t make them as compelling antagonists as the dinosaurs themselves.

The movie’s final act is a nostalgic and fitting finale to the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World stories, but Dominion just takes a little too long getting there.