Get ready for a good popcorn movie with dinosaurs.

Jurassic World: Dominion is the newest film in the Jurassic Park franchise. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, this movie takes place seven years after the first Jurassic World. After the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, where many dinosaurs escaped into the wild, the world has seen a spread of dinosaurs and an increase of their population. 

Attacks from hungry dinosaurs and accidents from larger ones lead to many deaths the world over. Illegal poaching of dinosaurs also increases, while the government, with the help of new science lab Biosyn, gather up wild dinosaurs and bring them to a Biosyn sanctuary in Italy. 

Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) find their way in the new world by helping save wild dinosaurs and stop poachers and illegal breeding farms. The two are also raising Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon), the young girl they met in the previous film, who is a genetic clone of her mother. Now as a teenager, she’s trying to find where she belongs in the world and who she is apart from being a clone. 

Maisie is later kidnapped as her being a clone makes her a prime piece of research material. Also kidnapped is the offspring of Blue, the velociraptor that Owen raised. Owen and Claire begin following a trail that leads them to the laboratory and sanctuary run by Biosyn. To get there they meet Kayla Watts (DeWanda Weiss), a former air force pilot that works for the underworld, which now specializes in dinosaurs, and she agrees to help them save Masie. 

Returning faces from Jurassic Park, Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), reunite over a mutual concern of a new swarm of giant locusts terrorizing the crops of the Midwest united states. Suspiciously, these locusts don’t target Biosyn brand crops, due to their creator Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong) being instructed to design them as such by his boss at Biosyn, Dr. Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott).

So they head for the main Biosyn laboratory, after receiving an invite from inside man, Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) who was working with Biosyn employee Ramsay Cole (Mamoudou Athie), the right hand to Dodgson. 

This movie has some great-looking shots, CGI and dinosaur designs, with the big bad dinosaur of this movie being Giganotosaurus, heralded as the largest land carnivore to ever walk the earth. While it may look cool, it isn’t especially interesting compared to the previous movie’s genetically spliced dinosaurs, like the Indominus Rex. It definitely poses a threat though, and has a great presence with some nice action. 

While I don’t think all of these aspects work too well together, and some plot points are better than others, this is definitely a fun movie that scratches the dinosaur action itch and utilizes the returning cast nicely. Here, they’re much more important than if they just appeared in cameos. Accompanied by the iconic soundtrack and a great score, Jurassic World: Dominion is a good way to end this trilogy.

As for the future of Jurassic Park as a property, it is reportedly the final film of the series, but with it being such an iconic property, I remain doubtful that that will remain the case.

Jurassic World: Dominion is in theaters now.