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Jurassic World Dominion

Jurassic World Dominion is a 2022 American science fiction action film directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay with Emily Carmichael. It follows Owen Grady and Claire Dearing as they embark on a rescue mission, while Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm work to expose a conspiracy by the genomics corporation Biosyn.

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Four years after the Lockwood Estate incident that followed the volcanic eruption of Isla Nublar, once-extinct dinosaurs freely roam the Earth, breeding exponentially in order to increase the population numbers of their species. Amid global efforts to control them, Biosyn Genetics establishes a dinosaur preserve in Italy's Dolomites and conducts genomics research, ostensibly for pharmacological applications.
Claire Dearing, Zia Rodriguez, and Franklin Webb investigate illegal dinosaur breeding sites, also gathering proof of cases of animal cruelty. Claire's partner, Owen Grady, helps relocate stray dinosaurs. At their remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Claire and Owen secretly raise 14-year-old Maisie Lockwood (Benjamin Lockwood's seemingly biogenetic granddaughter) and protect her from groups seeking to exploit her unique genetic makeup.
When Blue, the last of the Velociraptors Owen raised and trained, arrives at the cabin with an asexually-reproduced hatchling, Maisie names it Beta. Increasingly frustrated living in seclusion, Maisie sneaks away to explore. Mercenaries searching for Maisie find and kidnap her and Beta.
Meanwhile, swarms of giant locusts are devastating U.S. crops. Dr. Ellie Sattler observes that crops grown with Biosyn seeds are left uneaten, raising suspicions that Biosyn created the insects. She takes a locust obtained from West Texas to her former romantic partner, paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant and reveals she is now divorced from her husband Mark. They determine the locust was genetically engineered with Cretaceous-period and contemporary DNA.
Franklin, now with the CIA's dangerous-species division, discloses to Claire and Owen that the mercenaries are at Malta. Upon arrival there, they infiltrate a dinosaur black market with Owen's former Jurassic World colleague Barry Sembène, who is leading a French Intelligence raid. Carnivorous dinosaurs are unleashed during the foray, wreaking havoc. When Claire and Owen learn that Maisie and Beta were transported to the Biosyn facility, sympathetic cargo pilot Kayla Watts agrees to fly them there.
Chaotician Dr. Ian Malcolm now works for Biosyn. He sought Ellie's help to expose CEO Dr. Lewis Dodgson after communications director Ramsay Cole warned him of Dodgson's illegal and irrational activities. Dodgson is exploiting dinosaurs and forcibly coerces former InGen geneticist Dr. Henry Wu to modify the transgenic locust to let Biosyn corner the world's food supply. Wu denounces the plan, warning it will cause an ecological collapse as the locusts spread unchecked.
Wu meets Maisie and explains that his former colleague, Dr. Charlotte Lockwood (Benjamin Lockwood's deceased daughter) used her own DNA to replicate herself, giving birth to a genetically identical Maisie. To prevent Maisie from dying of the same fatal disease that would later kill Charlotte, she altered Maisie's DNA by injecting her with a custom-engineered pathogen. Wu believes that Maisie and Beta's asexual conception and DNA are key to recreating Charlotte's pathogen to halt the locust outbreak.
A Quetzalcoatlus attacks Kayla's plane in Biosyn's airspace, forcing Owen and Kayla to crash-land in the icy wilderness while Claire is ejected. After Claire lands in a forest swamp, she narrowly escapes from a Therizinosaurus, while Owen and Kayla escape from a Pyroraptor and all three meet up after their separate dinosaur encounters. Inside Biosyn, Ian and Ramsay covertly advise Ellie and Alan on where to obtain a locust DNA sample. While searching for the lab, they encounter and meet Maisie. Discovering the breach, Dodgson attempts to incinerate the locusts to destroy evidence; some locusts escape through an air vent while ablaze, sparking a huge wildfire and firestorm around the preserve, threatening to kill any dinosaur in its path.
Alan, Ellie, and Maisie barely escape the facility before finding Ian. They meet up with Owen, Claire, and Kayla, but are all attacked by a Giganotosaurus and take shelter in an observation tower. Ramsay joins them after abandoning Dodgson, who flees with dinosaur embryos via a hyperloop, but becomes trapped after Claire and Ellie reroute the power and is killed by a trio of Dilophosaurus. As the group works together, Owen, with Alan and Maisie's help, locates and captures Beta. They and Wu escape in a Biosyn helicopter amidst a fight between the Giganotosaurus and Isla Nublar's former resident Tyrannosaurus, Rex, the latter assisted by the Therizinosaurus.
Ellie and Alan rekindle their romantic relationship before testifying with Ian and Ramsay against Biosyn. Owen, Claire and Maisie return home and reunite Beta and Blue. Wu releases a host locust carrying the pathogen, gradually eradicating the swarms. Dinosaurs, Animals and Humans now adapt to a new co-existence, and the United Nations officially declares Biosyn Valley as an ultimate international dinosaur sanctuary.
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