To director Colin Trevorrow's credit, he does make an effort to establish some continuity with the other films in the series. As is the case for Barry, however, his character wasn’t developed very well and is woefully underused.

Dichen Lachman's enigmatic Soyona Santos fits right in with this colorful environment in the action-packed sequence set in Malta and adds a welcome degree of campiness to her scenes. Like Barry, she would be higher on our list if she'd returned later in the film.

Leaving aside the retconning and reverse engineering of her backstory, the development of Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) is one of the more disappointing plot threads in the film. As the person that released dinos into the world, you’d think she’d struggle with the amount of death and problems it caused, but this is never touched on.

BD Wong's Dr. Wu, the one constant throughout the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" films, has had a sketchy progression throughout the new trilogy. He does try to atone for his hubris and all the death he caused, but seeing him get a dose of poetic justice would have been better.

Introduced as the protege of the villainous Lewis Dodgson, Ramsay Cole is initially a vaguely sinister presence in the film, casting a watchful eye over Alan and Ellie as they try to sneak around BioSyn. Even though he is revealed as the whistleblower he faces zero repercussions and his motives are never revealed.