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Jurassic World: Dominion
Movie

Jurassic World: Dominion

2022 • Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Woke Score
6
out of 10

Plot

Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live--and hunt--alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.

Overall Series Review

The final installment of the Jurassic World trilogy blends the original cast with new characters in a globe-trotting adventure focused on a corporate conspiracy. The narrative pushes a clear theme that unchecked power—specifically that of a Western, male-run genomics corporation—is the root of global catastrophe. Female characters from both generations are consistently depicted as the most capable scientists and action heroes, eclipsing their male counterparts in influence and effectiveness. The movie introduces new characters defined by their race and sexual identity, clearly prioritizing intersectional representation in key roles. The core plot revolves around the failure of Western-based institutions and technology, suggesting human civilization is the fundamental threat to the planet's ecological balance. The film maintains the franchise's secular 'man plays God' morality tale, but subtly grounds the central conflict in identity and gender dynamics to elevate certain demographics over others.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics7/10

The movie elevates new characters based on intersectional traits to roles of critical importance, such as a Black female pilot and a young Black male corporate whistleblower. The main villain is a white male CEO running a massive corporation, which continues the narrative tradition of framing wealthy white men as the source of planetary destruction and unethical scientific abuse. This is a clear reliance on immutable characteristics to define the moral hierarchy of the plot.

Oikophobia6/10

The central conflict is a world-ending agricultural crisis engineered by Biosyn, a Western-based Big Tech/Big Pharma genomics corporation. The story portrays institutions of Western innovation and capitalism as inherently corrupt and a danger to the global food supply. The focus is on the failure of human systems to cope with the dinosaurs, suggesting human civilization is a chaotic and predatory force on the planet.

Feminism8/10

The female leads, Dr. Ellie Sattler, Claire Dearing, and new pilot Kayla Watts, drive the investigative and rescue plotlines and are consistently depicted as highly capable and effective. The original male lead, Owen Grady, is largely sidelined into a protective, less strategic role, while the original male scientists are reduced to delivering quippy exposition. The plot also centrally features a young girl cloned asexually and a female velociraptor that reproduces asexually, a clear emphasis on life finding a way without male input.

LGBTQ+4/10

A key new character, the highly skilled pilot Kayla Watts, is deliberately given an ambiguous reference to her bisexuality, an intentional inclusion of a non-normative sexual identity. The core plot thread concerning the cloned Maisie and the raptor Beta also focuses on asexual reproduction, which deconstructs the traditional male-female pairing as the necessary starting point for new life.

Anti-Theism5/10

The movie adheres to the franchise's core moral lesson that 'man playing God' is a catastrophic moral failure, which implies a higher moral order that humanity violates. The entire structure of the story is based on scientists (like Dr. Henry Wu) seeking redemption for their attempts to defy natural law. While there is no explicit attack on Christianity, the overt Christian faith of one of the diminished male leads is noted in commentary, suggesting a subtle anti-religious sentiment in the production's trajectory.