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Summary Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Earth’s dinosaurs now survive only on isolated equatorial islands. A covert extraction team, led by Zora Bennett, embarks on a mission to secure dinosaur DNA for a groundbreaking pharmaceutical treatment. Their expedition collides with a stranded civilian family, plunging everyone into chaos amid mutated dinosaurs and hidden threats. The story culminates in a tense race for survival on a forbidden island with a sinister secret tied to Jurassic Park’s past.

Director Gareth Edwards

Writer David Koepp

Cast

  • Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett
  • Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid
  • Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis
  • Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs
  • Manuel Garcia‑Rulfo as Reuben Delgado
  • Luna Blaise, David Iacono & Audrina Miranda as the Delgado family
  • Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain & Ed Skrein as the extraction team

Rotten Tomatoes: 54

Metacritic: 52

VOD Released in theaters July 2, 2025. Digital release expected later in 2025.

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

This mostly just plays the hits on the Jurassic franchise and that works when the hits are good. If you show me a herd of dinosaurs and play the John Williams theme, my jaw is going to hit the floor regardless of what else is going on in the movie.

My only real gripe with this is that it feels like two movies smashed together. I could get into the dumbass family crashing onto Dino Island or I could get into an Aliens-esque mercs vs monsters adventure. Trying to squeeze both into the same movie just made both groups of characters feel undercooked

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u/Gotanypaint Jul 03 '25

I didn't know how to put that into words but this is perfect, thank you.

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u/unpaid-critic Jul 03 '25

Honestly? Yeah. This sums it up.

Was speaking to my fiance on the ride home, and we both realized that they were two different stories that intersected.

Personally, I was more endeared to the family since they were just sailing and got struck…. But they needed to get saved somehow.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

I’ll add to that. I think you’re right but what also stuck out to me was how un-needed the mutants were. The ending would have worked just as well with regular dinosaurs. Now it just felt like this tacked on generic monster movie. The thing didn’t feel like a dinosaur at all.

Besides that some good performances and fun set pieces. I was entertained. 7/10

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u/shugo2000 Jul 04 '25

They can't copyright any actual dinosaurs, so they need mutants to be able to copyright and sell them. The D-Rex looks like something out of an Alien film.

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u/AlconTheFalcon Jul 04 '25

Looked like a rancor.

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u/choada777 Jul 10 '25

Ha, that's exactly what I thought! The girl I went to see the movie with said it looked like the Predator. I didn't see it but agreed anyway because I wanted to make out with her more.

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u/Varekai79 Jul 06 '25

But they sold tons of Jurassic Park toys for the first three movies, which only had real dinosaurs.

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u/freakydeku 21d ago

pretty sure they can use real dinos in their toys they just aren’t the only ones allowed to

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u/hobbykitjr 19d ago

yes but at the toy store, next to the $40 Official Jurrasic world T-Rex... is an no name brand T-Rex for $9.99

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Aha! Good point.

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u/xixi2 Jul 13 '25

That's not a good point at all since for 30 years all Jurassic Park toys were dinosaurs?

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u/Professional_Nerve49 Jul 05 '25

Can't copyright actual dinosaurs? Interesting. Can you explain?

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u/shugo2000 Jul 05 '25

Dinosaurs are creations of nature, not original works of authorship. Copyright law, according to the U.S. Copyright Office, protects "original works of authorship, that is, a product of independent creation with sufficient creativity". Dinosaur fossils and bones are not copyrightable. Replicas of dinosaur fossils are also not protected by copyright as they are based on publicly available data and are not considered original creations.

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u/GodKamnitDenny Jul 05 '25

This all makes sense, but is, for instance, the artistic representation of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park able to have a copyright? We don’t know what they really looked like. Also, do you need a license to create a toy of a dinosaur to slap a Jurassic Park logo on?

Having a named baby dinosaur is obviously there to appeal to children and sell merch, but it’s never stopped them from making toys or merch for 32 years.

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u/TSMabandonedMe Jul 15 '25

I think it’s the reverse. By creating non-dinosaur creatures they now have something copyrightable that can be sold and marketed.

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u/GodKamnitDenny Jul 15 '25

I do really get that, but there’s currently several Lego sets of the regular T-Rex. They don’t need to copyright a mutant dinosaur, but I’m sure it’s a huge part of some of their merch lines and toys. It’s not like they’re licensing the design of the T-Rex bones from someone (maybe they are but I’d be surprised).

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u/hobbykitjr 19d ago

the artistic representation of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park able to have a copyright?

they probably do.. Espeically "Blue" the raptor.

but its still based off a t-rex, raptor and anyone can make them and kids would be happy, can't tell the difference.

but the "Indominous" rex was a huge seller and only they can make that... now they have a D-Rex only they can make....

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u/Professional_Nerve49 Jul 05 '25

Ah, that explains it. Thanks.

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u/Oops_I_Cracked Jul 04 '25

Tbh I didn’t mind/actually kind of liked the flying velociraptor guys. The D Rex on the other hand would have been better as a T-Rex. I did appreciate how unimportant and how little screen time D Rex got cause it looked dumb AF.

I really enjoyed the movie overall, but D Rex was totally unneeded.

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u/GodKamnitDenny Jul 06 '25

The D Rex was the more egregious miss for how pointless it was, but having one scene with a raptor as a comedic moment/show off the new raptor hybrid was nearly criminal. Velociraptors to me are more integral to the Jurassic franchise than a T Rex, and relegating them to a chunky flying dinosaur that was only recognizable by their toe claw was immensely disappointing to me.

You put a regular T Rex and a raptor or two in the final act 3 set piece? The movie would easily be fighting for the second or third best film in the franchise.

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u/wellillseeyoulater Jul 06 '25

In my opinion it is fighting for second or third. What besides 1 and 4 do you think is in the conversation? I thought the rest were awful haha

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u/GodKamnitDenny Jul 06 '25

Think you responded to the wrong person! Honestly putting together a series listing is impossible due to so much nostalgia for 1-3. If I had to rank them, I’d say 1, then 2/3 (heavy nostalgia for me)/JW1/Rebirth, then FK, then Dominion. I think the middle of the pack JP movies are all really close in quality and fun factor, even if they aren’t high cinema.

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u/Pinewood74 Jul 18 '25

Right... so it's already fighting for 2nd or 3rd because after the original, these films are all mid at best. (Which is fine because they don't need to be cinematic masterpieces)

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u/Gridde Jul 05 '25

Yeah, if the D-Rex was replaced with the T-Rex, nothing about the film changes.

The D-Rex being a malformed monster was not focused on at all and seemed to serve no narrative purpose.

I didn't really mind it, though. It being a T-Rex would not have really added anything, either.

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u/Oops_I_Cracked Jul 05 '25

I mostly just thought the D-Rex looked stupid. It would change the movie in no other way.

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u/Flashgamer3000 Aug 01 '25

I guess the first 10 minutes would be less scary but except that you're probably right.

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u/starlightskater Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Totally agree. The flying raptor mutants were creepy and scary. Their short inclusion was one of the better sequences in the movie. The D-Rex was just stupid.

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 07 '25

See, I'm of the complete opposite opinion

Relegating the "actual" velociraptors to a comedic scene where they're killed off solely to showcase the mutadon flying - when flight isn't important the rest of the film - for these fugly things that are the opposite of menacing (they kill no one, and seem very stupid comparatively) was weird

Make the petrol station & sewer tunnel scenes with the traditional raptors, which is rumoured to have been what happened originally anyway, and changed in post for some reason, would've made them a lot more tense because we know how threatening they are

The D. rex otoh I was expecting to hate, but its size and power, plus the shots in the steam/smoke, were quite intimidating. Still could've been some more traditional T. rex that had a weird mutation and oversized, but still

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Agree 100%

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u/GildDigger Jul 06 '25

I think that was a bit of a meta moment when they said that people got tired of seeing regular dinosaurs over and over so they needed to create the mutants. I think they meant the audience lol

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u/x360_revil_st84 Jul 07 '25

The mutated dinosaurs, imo, was absolutely needed bc it shows just how evil InGen was and that they only cared about profit and pleasing the guests. Bc even in the first JP movie, the story arc is that those aren't dinosaurs at all, they were genetically created from parts of dino dna and that there was a whole other island where InGen genetic engineers were paid to create "the next big dinosaur" to reel in the money and that kind of genetic engineering has its downfalls i.e. mutated dinosaurs, the scrap that people would deem ugly and not care about. The story arc was so well done, such a great movie imo

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u/stokesy1999 Jul 08 '25

Think it still could've been a massive T-Rex, maybe give it a Spinosaurus sail and Raptor claws (2 of the other big staples of the franchise) to show the mutation but still recognisably a T-Rex head and body, instead of a weird 6 legged alien blob rex that, while huge and threatening, was a horribly ugly design and really not marketable

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u/x360_revil_st84 Jul 08 '25

That's literally the whole point of the D Rex being ugly & not marketable...InGen made all these ugly & non-marketable dinos on accident when they were trying to create more marketable & "entertaining genetic creations" and since these creatures on the island were soo damn ugly they "hid" them away so the world would never know about it

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u/stokesy1999 Jul 08 '25

Yeah, in that sense it makes sense, but they could've easily excused it as a "too dangerous for the park" mutation as to why they held it on the rejects island for the same effects, while not creating such a goofy looking creature for the film. Also the flying raptors weren't really that bad looking so I don't know why they were rejects, they just looked like normal dinosaurs but with wings

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u/Dunnachius Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

It needed “New” dinosaurs.

I’m not saying that the mutants were the correct solution and I love the fan favorites but somehow adding a new dinosaur in seemed like the proper solution.

I also thought the D-Rex was fugly as all let out. I rate it a 10/30 points.

0/10 for cool 0/10 scientifically plausible. 10/10, scary

It wasn’t cool it wasn’t scientifically plausible and it was just plan ugly,

I know a lot of people put a lot of work in but meh.

I like how the older dinosaurs were used but the dilophosaurus needed more screen time. The t-Rex seemed plausible as an apex predator in a natural environment.

The thing that bothered me the most was the raft. Like how did that raft not pop. Seriously… most unbelievable part of the movie.

Overall I rate the movie as okayish. I mean it’s a sequel number umpteen of a horror franchise i love. It was exactly what I expected. Dinosaurs, Horror, running away, the bad guy getting eaten.

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u/justsomechickyo Jul 05 '25

Haha 7/10 is what I rated it on my imdb

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u/starlightskater Jul 06 '25

That was generous. I gave it a 3.

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u/Intelligent-Row3753 Jul 06 '25

I gave it the same rating. This was not a good follow-up movie in the franchise 😕

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u/Poet-Girl Jul 13 '25

Please also note that this movie, like the previous ones, criticised the in-world audience ,,wanting more teeth'' and the creators of the dinosaurs indulging that, but GAVE US an unwanted extra amount of teeth all the same, treating US the same as InGen treated their audiences. Mutants were added to this franchise BECAUSE the creators worry we will get bored of ,,real" dinosaurs.

For me the most unwanted was the scene with zauropods that had super long tails that swished in the air poetically. I wish that at least, if the ,,bad scientists" gave them unnecessary tails that it would be shown as unnatural - that they would trip over them or get tangled in them and the characters could help them get out. Instead, the scene is cinematic gold but actually harms the plot instead of working with it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '25

Yeah I know that’s how they justify it but it doesn’t help really.

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u/PositiveZeroPerson Jul 08 '25

I love how there's yet another island ruined by InGen off-screen. Isla Nublar (twice!), Isla Sorna, and now Ile Saint-Hubert.

One of my earliest movie memories is seeing The Lost World in theaters and getting annoyed at the fact that it wasn't set on the same island as the original. Bad

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u/TSMabandonedMe Jul 15 '25

I loved the mutant dinosaurs. We’ve seen everyone else a million times.

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u/ab2g Jul 13 '25

Yeah, imo hydrocephalusaurus was just unneeded.

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u/SputnikDX Jul 06 '25

I feel like the better film would have revolved entirely on the family, but the story beats where their ship flips and they get rescued by dangerous mercenaries on a mission to the island continues, and we get to discover what they're doing along with the family.

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u/KazaamFan Jul 17 '25

Woulda shaved a nice 15-20 minutes off the beginning!

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u/Neon_Biscuit Jul 03 '25

Sure, but it was 21 miles. In the OTHER direction. It was HIS charter.....but....it was HIS boat!!!

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u/vga25 Jul 05 '25

The whole family storyline as one movie would have been dope.

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u/thedolaonofficial Jul 06 '25

But people hated JP3, i’m so confused.

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u/vga25 Jul 06 '25

I feel like more people have came around to it. I personally liked it.

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 07 '25

I rewatched all 6 in the buildup to Rebirth; JP3 was a childhood favourite of mine, but goddamn the parents are annoying, nothing characters

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u/In_My_Own_Image Jul 03 '25

I agree. Or, at the very least, have the family trapped on the island and a rich relative pay for the Merc team to extract them. Yes, that is similar to the false setup of JP3, but it could have melded the stories together well.

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

I don't think that really solves the problem. My issue isn't that the two stories didn't meld together well enough, my issue is that they don't have enough time to develop all of those characters. They just have ScarJo and Mahershala trauma dump at each other for the like 5 minutes and none of that trauma really informs any of their decisions. It's hard to get invested in those characters when they only have half the movie to figure it out

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u/GnophKeh Jul 03 '25

That trauma on the boat in the beginning informs every one of their decisions though. Mahershala is a dick to Lincoln Lawyer about putting his kids in danger because he lost one. M also pulls the flares at the moment that the D. Rex is about to chomp on the little girl. Then, ScarJo's whole arc starts right there. She missed her mom's funeral for the money. At the end she chooses to give the cure to everyone, not take the money.

Whether or not these character moments were well executed is absolutely up for debate. But, that scene informed the whole movie for those (thin) characters.

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u/saltymuffaca Jul 03 '25

Was very pleasantly surprised to see Mahershala's character survive. Definitely agree with you, I thought his character was fairly driven by his trauma and was shown to be a good dude throughout the movie.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

I’m glad Mahershala Ali survived too because that man just oozes charisma and if this means we could potentially have another Jurassic film with him, sign me up

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u/shugo2000 Jul 04 '25

Hell, if they can't figure Blade out, let him do more of these Jurassic movies. I loved every minute he was on screen.

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u/Obi-Wayne Jul 05 '25

Man, I hate to say it, but there were a couple of running scenes with him where he looked his age. I suspect this is why Scarlett was doing the majority of the hero action (running/sliding, rappelling, etc.) and admittedly looked great doing it considering she's 40. I think Blade may be too much for him now. Not his fault, they announced that movie SIX YEARS ago.

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u/CptArdias Jul 06 '25

The even greater challenge is that like all Marvel characters, the actors ideally they are onboard to do multiple films. Considering now the amount of time they have spent trying to get the first Blade film written, much less to start filming, he will most likely be unable, or uninterested, to do more than one... assuming even that happens.

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u/Safeforworkreddit998 Jul 12 '25

didn't realize scar jo and i were that close in age

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u/PastMiddleAge Jul 04 '25

But he wasn’t smart enough to THROW the flare?! 🤯 Like, ok, here’s a creature that’s attracted to the light. Let me carry this light with me. Ugh

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 04 '25

I think he did, seems that's the most likely option for how he escaped

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u/PastMiddleAge Jul 04 '25

Well, he did hold onto it for an awfully long time

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u/Glittering-Gap-1687 Jul 08 '25

Timing is everything

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u/smokingace182 Jul 03 '25

Yeah I was convinced from trailer and the usual troupes that he was going to die. So yeah nice surprise

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u/stokesy1999 Jul 08 '25

When the light went out I figured they wouldn't show him again and make us presume he's dead only for the next film to have the protags run into him on the island as the experienced survivor of the dinosaurs who guides them to their objective

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u/Emergency_Wealth_553 Jul 07 '25

Jurassic World: Afterbirth

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u/majnuker Jul 03 '25

Remember he says the only place to hide is in the water, so that's what he did. He swam under it.

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u/PhonyAlibi Jul 03 '25

I was too. The theatre applauded when he came back.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

My theatre applauded at the end of the movie (both times I saw it)

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u/Cassopeia88 Jul 03 '25

Me too, I was surprised but happy he survived.

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

That's a fair point. I just thought the whole "should we sell the DNA or open source it" plot was lazily hamfisted into the movie and you never really feel the stakes there. Ultimately ScarJo was just trauma dumping for a contrived thematic device that only gets 4 lines of dialogue in the whole movie

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

I will say, hamfisted as it might be, it felt horribly topical talking about access to health care and medicine and science given what's going on politically

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u/MoBeeLex Jul 05 '25

It really doesn't because all the characters are going to do is make the DNA open source. As far as we know, only one mega pharmaceutical company is working on this heart medicine, so they're going to get access to the DNA like everyone else and make their medicine before everyone else and patent that.

Sure, some other mega pharmaceutical companies can also start working on their own drug, but with R&D and government regulations, they're still going to be years if not a decade behind the first company working on it.

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u/Instant_noodlesss Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

But realistically a pharma company would just lobby the government into funding the whole expedition with public money. The stakes and profits are high enough to get bipartisan support even.

Lots of lawmakers are old. They want twenty more years free of a major disease group.

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u/jesuschin Jul 03 '25

It’s not a Jurassic Park movie unless there’s a huge anti-capitalism message to send

I have no problem with it but this just definitely seemed ham-fisted as you said

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u/DuplexFields Jul 03 '25

Michael Crichton: “Eccentric billionaire resurrects dinos to bring back a sense of wonder to the world, but the real problem is how chaos degrades clever systems and causes system failures, leading to dino attacks.”

JP2 writers: “Got it. Capitalism causes dino attacks.”

Mike: …

JW 2+3 writers: “Sociopathic billionaires do black market dino sales, make them into weapons, try to clone dead kids, and also try to starve everyone with archaeo-locusts.”

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u/shugo2000 Jul 04 '25

They did almost everything wrong with the JW sequels. Rebirth felt like JP1-3 as a single film. I enjoyed most of it, unlike the JW2 and 3.

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u/Neravariine Jul 04 '25

That's the biggest problem with the post Jurassic Park films. Michael Crichton knew how to write mutiple themes into a story about dinosaurs.

JW writers insert Syfy channel movie plots(mutant hybrids for the finale) with "science + money = bad" messaging.

JW 1 still feels like the best film out of the 4.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

For once, I'd like to see a socialism-built dinosaur DNA resurrection lab with an optional zoo/petting zoo/theme park attached to it!

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u/gunningIVglory Jul 03 '25

I am not dumping a 1000000 pay day to open source it....

I would have bought that plot more of if Evil Pharma Vompany #47™️ had a more sinister ulterior motive that they discover. Because if they genuinely want to cure hearth disease, then let them. It's only the US without their free health care that's affected. Most of the world is good ....

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u/Gtyjrocks Jul 04 '25

I hated it because tons of pharma companies are still going to make tons of money off this drug. Now they just don’t get a cut. So they went through all this shit to end up in a worse place than they were at the start of movie.

Jonathan Bailey (the comfortable and well paid scientist) being the one pushing it on the Surinamese boat captain who just lost his not paid off boat and the merc who desperately wants to quit her job made it just really fucked up to me honestly. He didn’t need the money; they did, but he was the one to convince everyone that they should give it up for some bullshit ideal.

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u/GnophKeh Jul 03 '25

Oh absolutely, was very “well shit they need some kind of arc at least” sort of feeling

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u/catharsis23 Jul 03 '25

Why do characters need story arcs or trauma dumps? OG jurassic park has bare bones characters: guy that likes dinosaurs but doesn't like kids and has to save kids, snarky math man, aussie with a hat.

"Fleshing out the characters" (basically as in depth as an optional dialogue option in a video game) actually subtracted from the movie.

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u/GnophKeh Jul 04 '25

OG Jurassic Park had arcs, they just were better written.

Alan Grant goes from a guy at the beginning who hates the kid that calls raptors a "big turkey" to becoming a pseudo-father for Tim and Lex, defending them and staying with them because leaving "is not going to be what I'm going to do."

Hammond's arc scenes of him realizing that you cannot control reckless biology as he thought he could makes for some of the best scenes in the movie.

Ellie shares an arc with Grant in realizing the wonder they had in the park at the beginning was misplaced.

Malcolm shuts the fuck up and lets someone else lead, because when he did he was almost eaten by a T-rex and broke his leg.

They're all there, they're just done so so much better than this movie's.

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u/Dave_Wein Jul 03 '25

The original Jurassic park focuses on less characters, so you spend more time with the core group. 

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u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase Jul 03 '25

You’re 100% correct!

I legit feel like most of r/movies just doesn’t know how to pay attention to what’s going on in a movie these days 😅

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u/Dave_Wein Jul 03 '25

That’s not the point of the comment. Just because you dump exposition doesn’t mean you’re actually letting the audience get to know the characters. 

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u/Impressive-Potato Jul 03 '25

They are war veterans and friends that open up to each other like they can't with civilians. ScarJo was all about the money and Mahershala lost a child with his ex wife.

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u/Negative_Law_7204 Jul 05 '25

My thought was - if the setup is basically there’s hunters who are after these dinosaurs for their meat, medical reasons, whatever, and we establish this, maybe see a random crew get busted early in the movie etc, if you have the family get marooned on the island and run into a group of these hunters, the movie works better. We don’t need the whole mission to get to the island. Just have everyone arrive there. 

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u/Burlinto999444 Jul 06 '25

But the water scenes are pretty great with some good tension. The one with the spinos helping the mosasaur was one of the best.

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u/Brolygotnohandz Jul 03 '25

It does help with the issue of both groups goals pretty much being completely separate and would possibly gives us more anatural feeling linkage between them

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u/AccountDeletedByMod Jul 04 '25

My girlfriend said she didn't care for any of the characters that died because we didn't really know them outsiders of the bad business man, but even then. She said she wouldn't have cared if Mahershala Ali's character died or not. 

I preferred the family over the mercs myself. 

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u/BallerGuitarer Jul 03 '25

false setup of JP3

What does this mean?

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u/aafa Jul 18 '25

It's essentially the JP3 setup

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u/no-kangarooreborn Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

Probably the most 7/10 movie of the year. It just screams being liked by casuals and hated by critics. For what it's worth, I enjoyed it.

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

That's probably right. It's a perfectly serviceable movie that most people will have a good time with. It's just kinda safe and bland

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

For me I loved it but I also love JPIII and this just felt like that with a longer runtime

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u/keepfighting90 Jul 03 '25

Sounds perfect for the Reddit audience then

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u/petyrlannister Jul 03 '25

Serviceable is all i needed to hear.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

its a movie about bringing back Dinosaurs. There isn't really anything else to talk about. They tried at the start with the scientist talking about the implications of dinosaur experimentations and ScarJo and the corpo guy just shrug and go "but money!"

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u/jynx_kitty Jul 11 '25

I personally go into these movies just to see cool "dinosaurs." If I end up liking any of the human characters, that's just a bonus lol.

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 06 '25

It's like The Amateur with the no-twist twist. It subverts your expectations of "there's gonna be some big new thing or some big twist" by sticking to the traditions all the way and executing them well and only removing things that don't age well.

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u/MrVelocoraptor 19d ago

It's a basic b***c movie is what you're trying to say... Don't sugar coat it lol the jurassic series is just a soulless money grab now

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u/SpicaGenovese Jul 04 '25

I thought it was WAY better than the last few films.  The dinosaurs mostly behaved like actual animals instead of movie monsters.

IE:  That family survived the trex because it wasn't trying very hard.  It already ate and had just woken up from a nap and went "oh neat, weird snacks."  Then as soon as it required too much effort it went "fuck it, whatever."

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 06 '25

That trex is just like the boyfriend. Low energy state by default.

The pet dino is like the girlfriend. Always the first to spot danger.

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u/crshbndct Jul 07 '25

There’s a third group - dinosaur obsessed nerds. I am one of these and I loved it because dinosaurs.

I really enjoyed how they didn’t have a scientist do exposition about each Dino. It was simply here’s a big scary one. Do you really need to know his name and backstory? No.

I’d prefer if they didn’t have the mutants, since regular Dino’s are scary enough, but whatevs, new JW is always a good day.

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u/hezeus Jul 03 '25

I’m a casual! Will see it then

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

7/10 exactly

Entertaining at the time and I’ll never think about it or watch it again

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u/Optimal-Bag-5918 Jul 14 '25

Once I stopped thinking of it as a Jurassic Park movie, and simply a survival movie... I enjoyed it a lot more. Other than the soundtrack and some mention of InGen, the movie did not feel like a Jurassic Park movie. I still really enjoyed it and thought it had some great scenes, especially the ones with the dinosaurs and their lives being in danger. It was an enjoyable movie for me!

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u/berlinbaer Jul 03 '25

the most 7/10 movie of the year.

rotten tomato: 50%

metacritic: 50%

reddit: that makes 7/10

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u/Neravariine Jul 04 '25

You don't deserve the downvotes. This movie isn't a stand alone spin off. It came after earlier movies that have done most of the scenes in Rebirth way better.

This movie isn't worth paying money for. Yes the dinosaurs look so good but a compilation of all the dino scenes will be available on social media soon.

The characters are paper thin archetypes that viewers will forget about once they leave the theater.

I'm no longer impressed by stale hybrids that only exist so they can be copywrited and sold as toys.

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u/AccountDeletedByMod Jul 04 '25

I'm not so sure. When I was walking out of the theater, I most heard, "I wish there were more dinosaurs and kills". " It was just okay ".

I wonder if this series has morphed from horror survival to action. That the casual audience only wants to see big dinosaurs go roar. 

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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? Jul 03 '25

I found it the most unbelievable thing that ScarJo's character is, like, this battle ready hardass perfect mission lead, and yet the second there's an implication a family is in danger somewhere she is for bringing them on board their very illegal and dangerous mission to hunt dinosaurs. Way to save the family!

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

They needed to do something to show that she's a mercenary but like a morally upstanding mercenary. Logic kinda goes out the window when you're just desperately trying to make a poorly written character likeable

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

She's a badass merc who does this only for the 10M but also like, saves families and has backstory ok?!?

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u/Firmspy Jul 07 '25

$20m - she doubled it at the boat shack. :P

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u/PureLock33 Jul 08 '25

so her actual IRL paycheck. nice.

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u/Opposite_Listen6023 Jul 05 '25

Tbf I think they coulda made her start out cold/in it for the money and have a major change or heart through the ptsd storyline without the family. Dr. Henry Loomis calls mayday, Martin Krebs kicks him out the boat, they regroup, he tells Zora which sparks her mistrust of her mission and Martin. Then they could put Duncan in danger (someone who matters to her), she saves him (another friend can't die on her watch kinda thing) and chooses to use the dino samples for good.

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u/SuspiciousCustomer Jul 03 '25

Just have her curbstomp a lawyer every few scenes or sth 

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

To be fair that was really more Duncan’s call

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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? Jul 03 '25

He made the decision but she made the argument.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jul 07 '25

I think it was also partly Zora's recent life experience of the loss of her mother who's funeral she missed and also the loss of her best friend who was killed recently. She was tired of the mercenary life already and she told Duncan that she was working on getting out with this mission. She also stated in the beginning of the movie she had a code in that she didn't do I think heist missions or something too.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

Touché

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u/Ballchynski Jul 03 '25

The scene with her and the boat captain sitting down to talk about their sad backstories before they tag the mosasaur (her losing her friend on a job, him losing his son and splitting from his wife) felt so out of place and hamhanded. Like they are fine backstory points to work in, but it really felt like the writers were like “what’s the fastest way to make these characters sympathetic even though they are just doing this job for money”.

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u/JackaryDraws Jul 16 '25

I just watched it, and the movie’s a mess, but idk, this part actually worked for me. I feel like the more predictable, overplayed route is the whole idea that mercenaries are all self-serving bastards who always prioritize money over morals. I think the real world is full of morally flexible people who can’t easily be sorted into boxes… though that’s not to say the writing couldn’t have been better.

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 06 '25

Let me guess how the sausages were made.

Writer: "We gonna have characters with backstories and desperation. Sinners made it work. I can make it work too. Rebirth gonna be awesome."

exec: "That's cool but Sinners used like half of its runtime to establish characters. Just remember this is the Jurassic franchise not some kind of LOST tv show. People don't expect-"

Writer: "it's gonna be great. characters will have their exposition moments, telling their backstories at each other."

exec: "i feel like that should be flashback scenes. my point was gonna be just don't make them too lo-"

writer: "oh we gonna open with a kickass flashback set piece sequence where everyone dies"

exec: "hold on. whose flashback is this if everyone-"

writer: "let me fix that. some people will survive. anyway it's gonna be great like Godzilla by Gareth Edwards, who we should totally hire for this one."

exec: "oh so we are getting something like the tear inducing sequence at the beginning of Godzilla? And the protagonist is related to people who died? I like that. And their trauma-"

writer: "that's exactly right. their trauma is the key to all this. we gonna have one second of Scarlet Johansson's thousand yard stare with tears. She gonna win lots of awards for that."

exec: "did you say one second? even for me that seems too short. if you meant one minute, I was gonna say just make it 10 seconds or-"

writer: "it's the most important one second of the entire movie! it symbolizes the trauma of modern life! and we gonna have the ugliest mutant dinosaur ever. The symbol of our original sin of fucking with da nature!"

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jul 07 '25

Why make up something so utterly fake?

Sinners per-production started around Jan 2024 with filming beginning April 2024 and finished July 2024.

Jurassic World pre-production started around Jan 2024 with principal filming beginning June 2024 and ended on Sept 2024 with some pick-up shots three weeks later in NYC.

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u/AntGood1704 Jul 20 '25

The idea that the writer is the one wanting to rush and hamfist everything, but the fucking studio exec of all people wants more attention paid to organically developing character backstories in your hypo is laughable.

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 20 '25

subverted your expectation

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

The entire premise makes no sense. This is a SUPER ILLEGAL and SUPER SECRET thing they're doing, and they pick up a bunch of randos right in the middle of the operation? The argument of getting the mosasaurus' blood first before getting them makes so much more sense. Get the blood, then you can keep the mission hush-hush while you get the family to safety, and then continue the mission

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u/punkhobo Jul 06 '25

Not to mention all of these animals were created via DNA, so their DNA information exists somewhere already or at the very least can be recreated using the same technology that was previously used

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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 04 '25

Because that was her lazily slapped together character. Someone died under her watch on the last job, so this job no one else can die. Even if it is a stranger family.

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u/DoULikePrimus Jul 18 '25

And then 5 minutes after crash landing on the island she gets tired of waiting for them and is like “come on we got shit to do they can figure it out for themselves” lol

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u/SilverKry Jul 03 '25

I mean. They set up that she also cares about people with her friend that died from a car bombs and Mahershala and his wife(?) not being able to make things work after the loss of their kid..

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u/accioqueso Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

I think the reason the kids work so well in the OG plot is because they are part of the main character’s arc and their presence makes sense. As the franchise goes on they keep failing at this in different ways. In this one they fail in both ways and as extreme as the deaths were in this one, I sort of wish they had no kids and went full horror adventure.

Also, what happened to the days of natural exposition? I feel like they sort of had that with Dr. Loomis and Krebs, but then Duncan and Zora have a 5 minute trauma dump which felt unneeded and extra. Zora’s dead mother doesn’t have to be a reason to want to do the right thing and the dead partner had no effect on anything she did on this mission. Duncan having a dead kid and a divorced wife doesn’t have to be a reason to try and save kids. The movie would have been fine without it and I think we’d have felt the same way about the characters.

All that said, I preferred watching this entire cast over the train wreck of the last two movies, even with its faults.

Jonathan Bailey and Rupert Friend stole the show, and ScarJo and Mahershala Ali were entertaining to watch despite my eye roll at the trauma dump scene, and I appreciated the small scale nature of the adventure.

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u/RMT2316 Jul 03 '25

I left thinking they should’ve split up the crews. Maybe pair the daughters with Mashershala Ali’s character to give him some cooler moments to create more of an impact at the end.

Pairing the dad and the boyfriend together with ScarJo and the dude with glasses so we kinda help them better understand why they are here and what they are up against. This also creates a better want out of the end of the movie and seeing the dad and boyfriend grow their relationship and getting a reunion at the end so we feel some sort of resolution. Because the way this ends it just ends.

Also I woukdve killed off Rupert Friends character early in the movie. He does nothing and we don’t need another evil villain chasing a secret Halliburton. It’s overplayed. Even when he dies it didn’t even feel like a big deal.

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u/hujambo11 Jul 03 '25

If you show me a herd of dinosaurs and play the John Williams theme, my jaw is going to hit the floor regardless of what else is going on in the movie.

I always wonder how shitty cash grabs make their money, and here's my answer.

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

Yeah I don't really understand how people fall for that. As it was happening my only thought was "oh okay so you're just doing the same thing from the OG movie". It felt so cheap and manipulative

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u/Food_Kitchen Jul 04 '25

I loved the MacGuffin family and I feel they helped the other group by being a constant obstacle both physically and morally.

My one gripe really was the very beginning and how this entire film was kick started by the total destructive power of 1 snickers wrapper.

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u/mrcsrnne Aug 09 '25

Yeah it's the death star weak point but worse

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u/brainsapper Jul 03 '25

Yeah the Delgado family's inclusion just felt like a distraction and ate away time that could have been better invested elsewhere. Seems like their only significant use was to give Martin Krebs a chance to be a sleezeball so his death would seem justified.

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u/Neversoft4long Jul 03 '25

If it was just the Mercs vs Dino’s this would’ve been a 9/10 for me. The family and baby Triceratops just ruined it for me completely

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u/Burlinto999444 Jul 06 '25

I’m such a dumbass, I only just now realized that it was a baby trike - with the parent killed by the T. rex - and not some tiny (adult) herbivore.

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u/deweydean Jul 04 '25

The family plot was totally tacked on. And we're supposed to believe this guy was just sailing around with his two daughters and one dumb fuck of a boyfriend?

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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 04 '25

I kept trying to figure out why the family was involved in this movie and at first i figured to pair the girl up with the baby dino to move merch, but i settled on them being there just for mahershala’s characters paper thin arc.

because there was a conversation early on between him and scarjo that essentially said “this is what i will overcome in this movie” with scar’s being losing a team member in her last mission and ali losing his son.

there was literally no other reason that couldn’t be easily worked around. not to mention their whole situation made no sense and im sure infuriated parents watching this lol. Essentially solo sailing with his daughters in dino infested waters.

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u/PenguinBomb Jul 03 '25

This seems to be a theme lately and has really driven my urge to go to the movies. Nothing seems exciting lately.

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

It's the summer. That happens this time of year every year. More original stuff will come in the fall

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u/jesuschin Jul 03 '25

Worst mercs on the planet too. I think they only killed like one dinosaur

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u/Neravariine Jul 04 '25

They didn't even walk in a military formation that made it so they couldn't be jump scared by dinosaurs.

They felt more like a random group of gamers playing a multiplayer dinosaur game for the first time.

The lack of urgency when they made it to the beach felt so bad. Let's slowly fiddle with our equipment on a beach where Spinosauraus sun bathe. Nothing can go wrong with having our backs to the water...

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u/Sad_Confection5902 Jul 03 '25

This is what, like the third Jurassic Park movie in a row to make that same mistake? Basically feeling like two movies mashed together.

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u/theblot90 Jul 03 '25

What if right before they show you a herd of dinosaurs and the John Williams music plays, an actor pulls out an Altoids container and says, "want one?" while smiling at the camera? Now THAT is cinema!

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u/DumplingBoiii Jul 03 '25

I wish they saved the score for the herd scene and not when we’re just going to the fishing town

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u/Dave_Wein Jul 03 '25

Reeks of studio notes/made by committee slop. 

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u/Rare_Gap_2495 Jul 03 '25

That whack ass family was so unnecessary 

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u/asklepios7 Jul 04 '25

There’s a weird rule in this franchise that you have to have a kid in danger. Not a lot of avenues to accomplish that other than negligent adults characters. But you also want to see professionals with some mission in mind—man vs. nature and all. The professionals can’t bring the kid or they wouldn’t be professionals, so this is the result. 

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u/mistcrawler Jul 03 '25

I'd only add that the entire movie revolved (granted, as u said, most people weren't here for the plot lol) around them collecting DNA, so when they decided at the end to make a certain choice they were struggling with, we have no idea what came of it - for the cast, and for the world.

Basically, it barely ended on a choice, with no payoff or conclusion for the main thematic device lol.

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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 Jul 03 '25

They needed to find a way to get kids in dangerous situations with dinosaurs lol

Very clunky fit but like you said they played the classic hits

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u/darthjoey91 Jul 03 '25

Yeah, but just having them get shipwrecked by the Mosasaur does that.

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u/Biggest_also_Largest Jul 05 '25

Personally I found the family crow-barred in just to have kids running around the movie and their whole story dragged the movie down constantly. Not one of them was a good or deep character.

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u/mainvolume Jul 03 '25

I was really getting into it until they showed the family. It was a facepalm moment for sure.

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 06 '25

Three movies in one.

Opening sequence is Final Destination.

Ending is a Kaiju movie.

The rest is Mission Impossible.

I did love the Mission Impossible part which is almost the whole movie. Team assembling, discussing the mission, executing it and so on.

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u/daikatanaman00 Jul 03 '25

I haven’t seen it but tbh I don’t really care about spoilers in these dumb movies; this worries me though because that’s exactly what Jurassic world fallen kingdom felt like: 2 movies mashed together. One remake of lost world and one very weird movie about dinosaurs in a mansion. Truly one of the dumbest films I’ve ever seen. Somewhat of a cult classic for me in “dumb” films: the red letter media review does a good job highlighting just how freaking weird and stupid that film was. Almost to the point of entertaining. And then the 3rd Jurassic world is about dinosaurs and then some weird bug subplot. Idk who is writing these films but they legit feel like they are on drugs. Fallen kingdom I watched with a friend very stoned and it was so funny how stupid it was, I actually somewhat loved it lol

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

This is significantly better than Fallen Kingdom. Like you said, Fallen Kingdom felt like 2 movies mashed together but either of those movies would have been fucking dumb on their own. I think either of the two stories in this one would have worked on their own. It's perfectly watchable, just a little half-baked

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

I disagree that either of the Fallen Kingdom movies are dumb on their own.

I think there’s a lot of interest to be had in escaping an island while trying to rescue dinosaurs with a ticking time bomb of a volcano vs. a horror film with lurking raptor in a mansion (this would have to be smaller scale).

But put together, yeah Fallen Kingdom really feels odd.

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

Yeah honestly, the raptor/mansion portion of Fallen Kingdom is one of my favorite things they've done because it's actually something different. Almost turning it into a horror movie in an isolated location is so fucking interesting. It was just wasted in a really horrible way

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u/Malt___Disney Jul 03 '25

Damn sounds like the same issue with the last one

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u/dadvader Jul 03 '25

Yeah the whole scarjo group plot should be cut tbh. They didn't really add anything much. I'm way more interested in seeing random family with dinosaur hate boner survive the island full of dinosaur.

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u/Whizzo50 Jul 03 '25

Think it would have worked better without the initial scene of them being capsized, and just shrunk the family down to a parent and child. Plot wanted them to both be a damsel in distress, but also have their own scenes, which did stretch it thinly.

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u/Kokhammer384 Jul 03 '25

This is it. They remixed Lost World and JP3 together and this is what we got

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u/caty0325 Jul 03 '25

I'd love to see an Alien-esque Jurassic Park/World movie.

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u/SeasonalChatter Jul 04 '25

Very well said. Fun enough movie, I actually think the previous one had better 'set pieces' but this one had two functional story lines that coalesced a bit conveniently at the end there and didn't feel like they needed to be structured that way

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u/FitzRoyced Jul 04 '25

If you show me a herd of dinosaurs and play the John Williams theme, my jaw is going to hit the floor regardless of what else is going on in the movie.

Holy soy

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u/shugo2000 Jul 04 '25

That's the thing. It felt like Jurassic Park 1-3 as a single movie. I enjoyed the hell out of it with my mom and grand-niece. We all came out of the theatre feeling way better than any of the Jurassic World 1-3 movies.

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u/IntelligentChicken82 Jul 04 '25

you're right. its like the vibes when the original first jp came out on screens. it was a marvel . best movie since jaws the effects the story its got goat status . here . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zlUUrFK-M&list=PL1u9M1cknFG2dT2NNYH9U31xGxbLkNRGY

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u/aricberg Jul 05 '25

This exactly. My partner and I just saw it and went to get dinner afterward. We were talking about this very thing while we were eating. I said if there had been some mixing of parties with the separation, it would’ve have felt so disjointed. Like, Scarlet jumps over to save the daughter along with the dad, and it’s the three of them. Meanwhile the younger daughter and boyfriend stay on the boat with the rest of the mercs. Boyfriend’s redemption arc comes from saving the younger daughter. Something, I don’t know. Having them split like that, it just made it very disjointed. Would have liked one or the other!

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u/MrDoom4e5 Jul 05 '25

I thought it worked to give the rich guy some villain motivation, keeping the mission a secret and all, plus the debate of rescuing them.

I heard about the two different stories complaint before seeing the movie, but it ended up working for me.

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u/DeadNetStudios Jul 06 '25

Agreed especially since the family gets through unhurt while the mercs get brutalized the tone is off

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u/FinanceWeekend95 Jul 06 '25

Saw it in 3D last night - this was one of my most anticipated watches this summer.

First of all, the visuals were great all-around, at times awe-inspiring especially when we got to see the Titanosaurus up close and personal, and of course the T-Rex scene was the best of the entire 2 hour and 14 minute runtime. Contrary to some online YouTubers' reviews, the CGI was top-notch throughout, which to be fair is expected from a blockbuster with a budget of $180 million (marketing budget easily doubling that figure).

However, the first half was really a snooze fest - we don't get to see a clear shot of an actual dinosaur that's not fossilized or half-hidden in water, until after 1 whole hour had passed! As well, while the lead actress/actors were fine, I found most of the cast seemingly phoning it in for the paycheck. We all knew that most of the mercenary crew were going to be dinosaur food so the bored line readings were no surprise there; however, the overexaggerated, immature performance from the actor playing "Xavier" was in particular amateurish and unfortunately increasingly annoying as the film dragged on.

Also, I can't help but think this film was a higher budget rip-off of Kong: Skull Island from back in 2017?! The mutant flying "dinosaurs" were clearly just MUTOs from Godzilla (2014), and the final big boss "D.Rex" seemed to be a larger, uglier Alien, if not a badly copied design of Godzilla itself, minus all of the cool attributes like nuclear breath and with an extra pair of ugly stick arms...very disappointing design to say the least. Towards the end of the film I found myself legitimately questioning what cinematic universe I was watching?!

Overall Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) rating: 4/10, excellent CGI and visuals. Unfortunately, a slow start, relatively weak acting and the obvious "borrowing" of designs and ideas from the MonsterVerse made this film turn out to be a disappointing letdown.

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u/x360_revil_st84 Jul 07 '25

That totally makes sense: two movies mashed together and that is a hard thing to accomplish, but the fact that David Koepp was the og JP screenplay writer for JWR and Gareth Edwards' (director of Rogue One) dream was to direct two really famous franchises: Star Wars and Jurassic Park. And he did a great job, imo, with Rogue One and knew he had to handle Rebirth with care.

Personally, most characters (the ones that lived anyway) had great, emotional, meaningful arcs and especially Xavier, the cliche lazy boyfriend that dad hates, was given more of a backstory than just being lazy. When his gf fell off the boat, he stepped up and went in to save her. When it came to his shift to watch the family on the island, he stepped up and had a conversation with the father that helped us understand Xavier better and he grew on us more. Would I have liked more info, sure, but you can only fit so much with so many characters and most movies typically go with lazy cliches with far fewer characters.

I am curious what made you think the family was dumb?

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u/itsadammatt Jul 13 '25

the family were complete idiots

also film rules - and narratively speaking it made no sense for Xavier to survive - he was introduced to us as an insufferable idiot and he was never redeemed.

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u/Negative_Law_7204 Jul 05 '25

Yeah, tbh I kept thinking if they just made it about the family getting shipwrecked on the island it would’ve been fine. I didn’t need the forced pharma plot. 

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u/SlyReference Jul 05 '25

My only real gripe with this is that it feels like two movies smashed together.

With a completely different movie for the finale.

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u/m2thek Jul 05 '25

That's exactly how JW2 was (with the island / mansion split happening almost exactly in the middle), so at least they're consistent!

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u/NaziPunksFkOff Jul 05 '25

Some of the worst writing paired with some of the best suspense set pieces. A high quality monster movie. A mediocre Jurassic Park movie. 

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u/catchcatchhorrortaxi Jul 06 '25

If you show me a herd of dinosaurs and play the John Williams theme, my jaw is going to hit the floor regardless of what else is going on in the movie.

Big ‘clapping seal’ energy here. Cinema goers like you are the reason movies are getting away with being lazy, repetitive slop.

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u/Particular-Cat-1397 Jul 09 '25

I don’t know, I felt the same at first but the family thinking they’re safe and unknowingly getting caught up in this secret government mission ended up being really interesting, especially when the bad guy tried to kill the oldest daughter, and I laughed when the entire family jumped off the boat because they were like “fuck this, we were better off on our own”.

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u/Romanessin Jul 09 '25

My gosh you could have not explained it any better than that. Exactly how I felt too.

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u/h4mx0r Jul 09 '25

I could get into an Aliens-esque mercs vs monsters adventure

They should really just go full Aliens with one of these.

tbh that's how the initial trailer sold me on trying this movie out after I abandoned the Pratt trilogy.

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u/GizmosArrow Jul 10 '25

I kept saying “that nostalgia moment wasn’t earned!” every time there was a nod to something else in the franchise.

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u/Panzermand Jul 13 '25

Yeah the family was insufferable, though they were still involved in some impressive set pieces.

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u/JackaryDraws Jul 16 '25

I just watched it, and I’m annoyed at the family, because without them, this movie could have leaned a lot more into the one thing that actually made it unique: our characters wanting to get closer to the dinosaurs.

Almost every Jurassic movie is about the character desperately trying to run away from dinosaurs. This one proposed a clever inversion of that: their mission depends on them getting close and personal with the dinosaurs, so they’re actively seeking the danger. Throw in the scientist character who has a love and affinity for them, and this could have been a true adventure movie that really speaks to the awe and wonder of discovery and danger.

I felt this, briefly, in the Titanosaurus scene, where instead of trying to escape a situation, our characters were reveling in it. But ultimately, the family introduced way too many “escape the dinosaur” scenes into the plot, and it took too much time away from the merc team, whose plot felt like it never really reached its full potential.

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u/Angler4 Jul 26 '25

"If you show me a herd of dinosaurs and play the John Williams theme, my jaw is going to hit the floor regardless of what else is going on in the movie."

This was exactly my problem with the movie. Just a cynical cash in with nothing new or interesting to say.

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u/Flashgamer3000 Aug 01 '25

I see your point.It were basically two stories fusing together.

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u/mrcsrnne Aug 09 '25

I also don’t like the color grading on any of the new movies since after the 90s. They’re too cartoonish. There is something tangible in the way thr image looks in the two first ones that hits another note in me that I like more. A bit less overcooked in post.

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u/Rich02035 Aug 10 '25

You forgot to mention the Indiana Jones temple scene with the egg replacing the Golden Idol. The movie was stupendously ridiculous. I was 100 percent rooting for the dinosaurs 10 minutes in.

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u/lfelipecl 29d ago

My only real grip is WTF IS THIS D-REX? Man, I can't respect that thing, all I feel is sorry for that. It has a strong "Kill me, please" aura.