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Five years after Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a ground-breaking medical breakthrough.

I was very much looking forward to this film as I've loved all of the Jurassic Park films so far. However, the first 20-30 minutes is dire. The script is absolutely awful and has Zora (Scarlett Johansson) reminiscing with Duncan (Mahershala Ali) in the most cringeworthy way. I was quite shocked that 2 actors of such standing could be given such cringeworthy dialogue. It reminded me of some of the worst war films ever made.

Happily the film does improve after that but never really recovers totally from the cringe. There are a lot of cringe moments in the film so you should know that going into it.

Nevertheless, despite the cringe and cheesy scenes that continue throughout, somehow the story still works. I admit I almost fell asleep during the first half hour, but after that I paid better attention and on the whole, the film works as entertainment.

It's not your usual Jurassic movie though, and had Mahershala Ali not been cast the film would have flopped. He makes it. He's kind of a focal point for half decent acting. Not one of his co-stars really supports him very well.

Still, it's a wild ride, the CGI was great, apart from Ali the acting was appalling, the script was terrible, but visuals were fabulous. And bonus, they left it open so that there could easily be a follow up.

If you can ignore cheesy and cringeworthy moments and all of it's other faults you'll exit the cinema having enjoyed the film. I gave it a solid 6.

I only watched 2.5 episodes of Beacon 23 before turning it off and vowing never to put it on again.

It is a Sci Fi show so you expect things to be different in the future. But there we see the heavily tattooed Lena Headey (Caster Alyx) with her lip filler at maximum and her heavy Yorkshire accent, which firmly places her as a lower class person from a small region of the UK in early 21st century. How does that mesh with Sci Fi? The show is set in the 23rd century, and I am sure that the current trend of tattoos, lip fillers and regional accents will have long disappeared in the next 200 years.

She had absolutely zero authority on screen and rather than act, she was more just 'being' in a matter of fact way. She offered zero to the role or the show. None of the other actors -except maybe the AI Harmony (Natasha Mumba)- did a good job either so it was an ensemble fail.

The plot itself was irritating because we don't really know what's going on. 3 episodes in you'd think we'd know something about the plot, but apart from a few fights, a lot of arguments and tons of false pouting from Headey, we are literally no further forward to understanding what is going on.

A story has to engage you, build itself in front of you and entertain with the way it is told. This was just cringeworthy rubbish and no wonder it was cancelled. I rated it a 2 out of 10 and even then I feel I was generous.

A superstar singer (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her overworked personal assistant (Dakota Johnson) work closely together...until they don't. But then they become even closer than either of them could have imagined.

Firstly, I watched this for the sole reason that Dakota Johnson starred. I loved her performance like I've loved every performance she's ever done. However, the film is not as big as she is.

It's a great story, with lots of music industry tropes in, and a moral about being who you want to be and believing in yourself. It's also a little romantic (as almost all Johnson films are) and it has some smushy moments which are totally manufactured, but still nice.

Overall it's a decently paced, written, acted and directed film which is not really memorable, but will be enjoyable for the time that you watch it.

I gave it a 6 and some of that score was just because of Dakota Johnson.