June 18, 2022 – The sixth film in the Jurassic Park franchise and final one in the Jurassic World trilogy features an oversized ensemble cast of characters, dinosaurs and cliffhangers.

Familiar faces include a trio of characters and actors from the first (1993) film, Ellie Sattler (played by Laura Dern) Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), along with a trio of characters and actors from the previous film (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon). These characters inhabit separate, related storylines in the movie. When they finally all get together at the end, they really fill up the screen.

Owen, Claire and Maisie pick up where they left off in the last movie, hiding from those who want Maisie for the genetic secrets in her cloned body. They live in a remote area with little contact with civilization, where they encounter Owen's trained Velociraptor, Blue, and her asexually produced offspring, Beta. The evil corporate empire of Biosyn Genetics has nefarious plans for both Maisie and Beta. Biosyn agents kidnap both of them, with Claire and Owen in hot pursuit.

Meanwhile, in a separate, but related story line, Ellie Sattler suspects that Biosyn has genetically engineered a species of huge locusts that are seriously depleting crops around the world. She enlists the aid of an old flame, Alan Grant, and old friend Ian Malcolm, to get genetic samples from Biosyn research facilities which would prove that Biosyn is to blame for the locust blight.

These globe-trotting rescuers and investigators encounter a variety of dangerous Biosyn allies, minions and bitey dinosaurs along the way. There are a series of cliffhangers as they barely escape time after time before the enormously destructive finale. There is plenty of action in this movie.

The chief bad guy in the movie is Dr. Lewis Dodgson (played by Campbell Scott of “The Amazing Spider-Man”) who is the amoral CEO of Biosyn. He is a businessman who engages in the kinds of activities that are definitely bad for business, like the locust breeding program, which is stupid, because he obviously can't get away with it. His unbusinesslike behavior falls into the category of “mad scientist.”

Other characters in the movie, like geneticist Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong, reprising his role from previous Jurassic World movies) Biosyn communications director Ramsay Cole (Mamoudou Athie of “Black Box”) and freelance transport pilot Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise of “The Harder They Fall”) are more complicated than they appear to be at first.

Once you get past the basic silliness of the plot and the monster movie overtones, this is more like an unserious heist adventure movie, and as such, it is enjoyable. This is not one of those awful dark, depressing films about an impending genetic apocalypse, although it could have easily been turned into that with a few minor tweaks. This is an entertaining romp, loaded with action, nostalgia and special effects. It rates a C+.

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