It has happened again. Critics hate what the public likes. Jurassic World: Dominion is now available to see in theaters and, while the specialized press is not very convinced of what Colin Trevorrow is proposing , the public has received it with open arms and gives it an outstanding rating, a note very far from the suspense of the other side. Why has the final installment of the Jurassic Park saga generated such a big gap?
The consensus of the critics is that, although the film improves on the proposal of its predecessor, The Fallen Kingdom , it fails to contribute anything interesting. For many, it is a chain of moments without spark and battles against dinosaurs where there is not much tension or something that really attracts attention. That is the main complaint of the press, the fact that the feature film is empty and has no fuel to pull the story .
Here are a couple of examples: “The point of entertainment isn’t to wear you down, but you’d never know it watching Jurassic World Dominion ,” writes Stephanie Zacarek for TIME . “The set is nonchalantly built, and the threats, chases, and dino battles are mostly devoid of the life-or-death tension that any other installment in the series has achieved,” opines Matt Zoller for RogerEbert .
But nothing to do with what the public says. Spectators who have already gone to see it have left the room quite satisfied. For the most part, they praise the participation of Ian Malcolm -how not?- and appreciate that aura of nostalgia that is present through references and winks . The biggest attraction of this film is to see Alan, Ellie and Ian in action again and the rest is left aside; therefore, those who have come for that reason have had just what they were looking for.
The main difference between one and the other is that the press fulfills its function of film criticism and values Jurassic World: Dominion as a piece of the seventh art in the same way as the films of Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. And maybe it’s not fair to do it with this movie, whose main objective is to entertain viewers with action scenes, make them laugh with a couple of jokes and, in this case, take them a little bit back to childhood, when they enjoyed Jurassic Park .
Jurassic World: Dominion ya está en cines, con Chris Pratt y Bryce Dallas Howard como protagonistas, a los que se unen los veteranos de la trilogía original Laura Dern, Sam Neill y Jeff Goldblum.
