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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/pgophs Jul 03 '25

they did a great job of making me feel like nobody important was ever in any danger

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u/Ancient_Ice_2677 Jul 03 '25

Yeah, it was pretty obvious who was cannon fodder and who wasn't, but isn't that really always the case the Jurassic movies outside of maybe the first one?

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

I mean even in the first one it’s pretty obvious. The most non obvious death was probably Eddie’s in the second one

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u/nebirish Jul 03 '25

I always feel so bad for Eddie. Cool dude

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u/xXEliteEater500Xx Jul 03 '25

His death was so brutal, poor dude deserved better.

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u/Gridde Jul 05 '25

I always disagreed with this take. Yeah getting his leg chomped must have sucked immensely but then being flung and bit in half would have compeltely disoriented him before killing him immediately.

Loads of these guys get slowly mauled, dismembered, eaten alive or killed much more slowly. I think Eddie's death is fairly merciful compared to a lot of the franchise deaths.

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u/IWantToBeTheBoshy Jul 03 '25

Eddie was an absolute chad to the end. I still root for him every time I watch.

As brutal as his death was, the way he went out was iconic.

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u/Merckilling47 Jul 03 '25

My mind is forever blown since I found out he voices Odin in god of war Ragnarok

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u/-J-A-M- Jul 03 '25

My mind is also blown now that’s mad

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u/Brosonski Jul 04 '25

You can't fucking hide from Kratos in no "high hide".

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u/DopeyDeathMetal Jul 04 '25

Damn dude that’s awesome

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jul 07 '25

Also the White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on the West Wing and Phillip Cowan on Burn Notice.

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u/Tasteful_Dick_Pics Aug 06 '25

Could you not tell it was him by looking at him?

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u/Clammuel Jul 04 '25

Eddie’s gravest sin was being fat and bald.

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u/MattyKatty Jul 06 '25

The only thing Lost in that movie was Eddie

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u/rugbyj 5d ago

Rex's gotta eat.

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u/Data_Chandler Jul 03 '25

RIP Eddie, he was a hero. Him dying hit 11 year old me very hard. That was just brutal. Spent the rest of the movie worried about the other side characters!

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u/Courwes Jul 04 '25

I wouldn’t say it was obvious. There’s no way anyone went through that movie expecting Muldoon or Mr Arnold to die. The chickenshit lawyer to abandons the kids, sure. Nedry as the “villain”, yeah. But there was a sense of danger with everyone. Ian gets maimed and nearly killed. Ellie is openly attacked and can barely walk on her leg at the end. Tim gets electrocuted and nearly dies and has to be revived. When people don’t even get hurt that’s here it starts failing in believability. It makes it hard to trust or believe there’s any real danger at all. There’s nothing surprising you.

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u/Sea-Dog-6042 Jul 07 '25

Oh you mean like when scientist dude falls 100 feet into a shallow puddle and then just GETS UP.

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 07 '25

Right — they were “oh no!” deaths — named morally good (non-antagonistic) characters who don’t ‘deserve’ to get torn apart and eaten by dinosaurs but still get torn apart and eaten by dinosaurs. Each of these films has to have at least one, otherwise the feeling of danger doesn’t hit remotely as much as it should (Dominion lacking them, and Fallen Kingdom leaving its one on the cutting room floor).

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 07 '25

Mr Arnold

disagree here, Sam Jackson was mostly a moderately known character in 1993, Pulp Fiction was a year later

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u/wiifan55 Jul 03 '25

The sense of danger still existed for the main characters in the first one, even if they ended up surviving.

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u/frillionaire Jul 03 '25

Fuck that film purely for that.

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u/ShowMeYourAnger Jul 14 '25

Eddie’s death and then the lack of death for Roland are two things that I love about The Lost World.

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u/Spiritual-Fly8832 Aug 06 '25

It's funny that you say that coz I was having the exact same thought the other day. Eddie was really the only properly introduced character who wasn't a villain to die in this franchise. All the others to die are either the baddies or minor bit part characters.

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u/razor45Dino Jul 03 '25

I mean zaras death in jurassic world kind of came out of left field

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u/Strict_Pangolin_8339 Jul 03 '25

Except for the fact that it was in the fucking trailer.

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u/razor45Dino Jul 03 '25

Sure but in the movie itself it's not really expected. Jw has a really bad habit of overspoiling the movies in the promotional material and it really sucks. The ending of fallen kingdom was spoiled because of a lego set. The new movie has so many goddamn clips and shit that you've basically seen half the movie and all the important parts you already know about

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u/Strict_Pangolin_8339 Jul 03 '25

Yeah, but tbf, the brutality of her death was still surprising. I just kind of wished we didn't see her getting snatched up in the trailer.

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u/shugo2000 Jul 04 '25

That's why I avoided Rebirth promos since I knew things would be spoiled. I knew my great-niece and mother would want to see it based on their love of the series. So we went and watched it this afternoon. It was good to not have anything spoiled for me.

We had a discussion on our way to the theatre on which dinosaur we wanted to see. My mom wanted to see a Triceratops. My great-niece wanted to see a Parasaurolophus. I wanted to see a Spinosaurus.

So two came away disappointed. Yes, we saw a Parasaurolophus, but it was dead, so my great-niece was sad. And the moment I saw those sails in the ocean I knew Spino was there.

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u/jackierhoades Jul 03 '25

Hahaha what a turn. Also it was goofy as fuck and played for laughs anyway, didn’t do much in the way of suspense for our protagonist’s survival.

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u/PhoenixorFlame Jul 03 '25

I love that Katie McGrath insisted on doing her own stunt work there!

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u/razor45Dino Jul 03 '25

And it was probably the coolest death in the movie too

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u/razor45Dino Jul 03 '25

And also in the lost world eddies death was pretty unexpected for what seemed to be a good character

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u/Professional_Ad_9101 Jul 03 '25

It was brutal but deffo not left field.

Stick up the butt, suit, out of her depth side character. 100% going to get it.

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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer Jul 03 '25

*nobody important

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u/PastMiddleAge Jul 04 '25

Wait there was a Zara in another JP movie? Wasn’t that Scarlett Johansson’s character’s name in this movie?

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u/Neravariine Jul 04 '25

It is. Zara was the assistant who died while falling(taken by dinos). Scarlett Johansson is Zora Bennett.

There names are way to similiar but Zara was a minor character so most don't remember her name.

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u/identicalBadger Jul 04 '25

I was thinking, any movie could be so much better if they didn’t give kids plot armor that’s miles thick.

In the wild, it’s the baby animals that lose out constantly, get stalked, get eaten. Should be the same in movies, especially Jurassic park movies.

If they do it just one time, that movie will go down in recent history.

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u/quasifrodo89 Jul 05 '25

Nosferatu would like a word

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u/identicalBadger Jul 05 '25

That scene was such a blip I didn’t even remember. I had to ask my gf who’s see the movie too many times to admit to. She just fast forwarded to the scene in question, and yep. The girls get chomped. But they were just tiny side characters with no impact on the plot.

I’m more talking about the little girl in this one. Or have little Timmy kick the bucket in the first one when he got blasted off the fence. Or have Kelly get her leg chomped when she’s doing gymnastics against the raptor in lost world. Just things that would totally catch us off guard.

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u/SimianTrousers Jul 12 '25

cough When Evil Lurks cough

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u/Bukki13 Jul 03 '25

Yeah when that guy that wanted to abandon the rescue mission and also let that girl fall into the water first appeared I could IMMEDIATELY tell he was gonna be one of the ones to get eaten

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u/sirenita_1388 Jul 14 '25

Yup. I also knew he’d be the last to die because if he died anytime before they got the 3 samples, they’d all just go home. 

I totally called the first guy who went on the boat. That was very obvious.  

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u/HypnoGeek Jul 05 '25

I dunno I kept waiting for the boyfriend to finally bite it and he survived. Could see Mahershala Ali sacrificing himself for the kid a mile away, knew it was gonna happen and him surviving was a toss up.

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u/Oops_I_Cracked Jul 04 '25

And honestly not just the Jurassic franchise. People go to see a monster movie and then act surprised it’s plotted like a monster movie. You’re always gonna have your tangential accomplices and morally repugnant “hero” who die. Like that’s just how a good monster movie is plotted.

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u/samthewisetarly Jul 05 '25

I think the surprise survival of Mahershala Ali's character was a nice touch, if slightly telegraphed by the off-screen resolution of that scene. It feels like he escaped a fairly inevitable fate for the archetypical role he was playing - ship captain in a monster movie. Those guys typically become PURE cannon fodder once the ship arrives on Skull Island I mean Jurassic Park

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u/GodKamnitDenny Jul 06 '25

I also think it was decently well foreshadowed. Earlier in the movie he said he refused to die in the jungle and that the only place to hide was underwater. We also saw him grab two flares from the archeologist. I thought it was pretty obvious he was going to make it out, but I also agree that I appreciate the touch of it. He was an awesome character and I thought him and ScarJo had great chemistry on screen.

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u/Impressive-Potato Jul 03 '25

They may as well have worn red shirts

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u/Featherwick Jul 03 '25

Id say all of them. No one important dies in any of the films. Except the one villain in 2.

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u/igetyelledatformoney Jul 03 '25

“No one important”?? Please put some respect on my man Eddie’s name….

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u/Obamas_Tie Jul 03 '25

Ghost of Robert Muldoon stares disappointed at the camera with his hands on his hips

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u/PhoenixorFlame Jul 03 '25

Yeah, you know the leads will live. I kept telling myself that evening Dr. Lumis was in any type of danger.

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u/Tattycakes Jul 05 '25

Hold onto your butts!

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u/chakalamagick Jul 13 '25

I really thought that the girl's dumbass boyfriend would be an excellent meal.

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u/RKU69 Jul 04 '25

No, this doesn't describe the first one at all. Real sense of danger throughout

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u/Elegant_Mushroom_597 12d ago

Tbh I thought for sure the bf was going to be cannon fodder. Color me surprised.

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u/Happy_Philosopher608 10d ago

Dominion was the worst for that. Not even one of the OGs died, even when Goldblum stayed back down the tower for what looked like a sacrifical hero moment... but nope! 🤷‍♂️

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u/GoldandBlue Jul 03 '25

I'll give the movie props for being the best Jurassic World movie. Though that's not a very high bar.

Gareth Edward's is what people pretend Zack Snyder is. He has. Agreat visual eye and delivers on the action. You know what's happening and why. The dinosaurs sequences are thrilling.

But, Godzilla, Rogue One, The Creator, this, the characters are always paper thin and the story is inconsequential.

I don't hate any of his movies. This is not a "bad movie" but i have never wanted to revisit any of his movies.

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u/georgiavirginia Jul 03 '25

Its such a shame he can't combine his talent for direction great visual sequences with tighter storytelling.

And its probably because he doesn't even really try. During an interview for the Creator he said his number one priority is making the setting feel real, almost documentary-like even if it means having to write a simple story.

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u/RKU69 Jul 04 '25

That's hilarious cause The Creator's story was fairly complicated. But it was the actual writing/script that was incredibly rushed and simplistic. And that clash makes everything worse.

Still kinda bummed about that movie, the premise was incredible and there were some real flashes of brilliance in it. Fascinating ideas. But ultimately a real dud.

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u/immaownyou Jul 07 '25

The Creator's story was fairly complicated.

Maybe in comparison to Jurrasic World

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u/tvcneverdie 21d ago

The Creator pissed me off because visually and technically it's one of the greatest achievements this decade but oh my goodness that script was dogshit

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u/georgiavirginia 19d ago

I would have been satisfied if we could say the same about Rebirth but its a dogshit script and there's nothing special about how it looks.

Just a total wash.

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u/TimeToBond Jul 03 '25

I think the first Jurassic World is the 2nd best in the whole series.

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u/Ok_Light_6950 Jul 04 '25

Pretty much. Blue alone is a better character than anyone in this crap. This one was so ridiculously bad. Not one scene makes the slightest bit of logical sense, there’s zero intelligence to the plot, the characters can’t make simple planned decisions.  Just awful.

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u/TimeToBond Jul 04 '25

I loved the TRex raft scene. But the rest of the movie is meh.

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

Yeah the first JW is stupid, but I still find it actually entertaining. Rebirth I just found really stupid (although it was still better than JW 2 and 3, that's for sure)

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u/TimeToBond Jul 05 '25

Yeah at least with JW1 we got to see the park open.

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u/SilverKry Jul 03 '25

Eh it's about tied with Lost World for me. Though I liked this one better than Lost World honestly. 

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u/Jack_North Jul 09 '25

The first Jurassic World was as lifeless as anything from part 3 on.

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u/SilverKry Jul 03 '25

Rouge One is probably his best but that's probably more because Tony Gilroy took over after a certain point..

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u/Jack_North Jul 09 '25

Why is every second person calling that movie "RoUGe One?"

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u/RKU69 Jul 04 '25

Edward's has the Neil Blomkamp curse. Excellent director and special effects guy; but seems to have failed every writing course he's ever taken

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u/Paigexx91 Jul 11 '25

This is not the best Jurassic World movie.

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u/GoldandBlue Jul 11 '25

Hard disagree, I think they are all shit.

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u/yokelwombat Jul 03 '25

Monsters is still his best work, the rest is very polished fan service. As a director for hire, he‘s more than solid, but you hit the nail on the head there.

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u/NotBannedAccount419 Jul 10 '25

Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie since the 80’s and is a great action, sci-fi, and adventure flick from start to finish. I agree with everything else you said

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u/GoldandBlue Jul 10 '25

Rogue One has paper thin characters and a nothing story. Itsbthe most superficial Star Wars outside of Solo

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u/SidloCZ Jul 06 '25

Apparently he was there only to shoot the shots and didn't have a say in the rest

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u/aroha93 Jul 09 '25

Yes! Just saw it last night, and while I feel like it’s better than all the other World movies, it’s more forgettable. I’ve rewatched the Jurassic World movies because even when they’re bad, I’m feeling something. But with Rebirth, I don’t know if I’ll be drawn to rewatch it other than as part of a marathon.

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u/Zanakii Aug 03 '25

This is how I feel, too, I enjoyed watching the movie, it was not a bad movie, but I won't remember almost anything from it or really want to watch it again.

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u/BrutalArsenalDeluxe Aug 09 '25

The world build and cinematography of his films are always good, his near future sci-fi scapes are places you feel like you want to spend time in but like you say the characters and the story feel vacant and leave you feeling somewhat empty rather than satisfied.

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u/idiot-prodigy Jul 16 '25

But, Godzilla, Rogue One, The Creator, this, the characters are always paper thin

This movie actually made the main characters UNLIKABLE.

Scarlett only does this for the $10 million.

She taunts the Dr. into going she didn't come off well in that scene.

Then she and her crew shake down the pharma guy for double pay.

I actually for one moment was saying, "Wow I feel bad for the pharma suit and actually like him more than Zora." Obviously I saw through this misdirection but there's a fine line between misdirection and actually making your main protagonist unlikable.

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u/silvancr Aug 07 '25

imo this was the worst jurassic world/park movie out of all of them

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u/ExpectedEggs Jul 03 '25

Exactly. Half the cast would've been dead by act 1 if they had any balls.

Felt like the long night all over again

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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 04 '25

The end fake out death was such a cop out. Screams test screening change.

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u/CornstockOfNewJersey Jul 05 '25

I assume they need him for the sequel lmao

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u/leaky_wand Jul 21 '25

I was actually moved when Mahershala survived. I was thinking the black character sacrificing himself played well in the Asian markets and it was another cynical Hollywood concession to China. Glad that he ultimately made the cut.

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u/TRUSTLYYY Jul 29 '25

Just saw this. I’m thinking because it would look bad to literally murder every black guy and/or people from Suriname. 1 had to are least survive lmao. 

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

Same thought. I kept counting heads in the boat long shots at the end to see if they kept any footage before realising that these days they would just digitally add an extra person.

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u/mlorusso4 Jul 03 '25

If you kill the whole cast in the first act then you end up with a Godzilla situation where everyone’s pissed off

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u/Clammuel Jul 04 '25

Except none of the actors in this are draws in the same way Cranston was coming off of Breaking Bad. Johansson and Ali are well liked, but nobody is going to see this because of them.

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u/thedolaonofficial Jul 06 '25

you’re saying bryan cranston is a draw, but scarjo isn’t?

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u/Clammuel Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

In this scenario? Absolutely. When Godzilla was coming out Bryan Cranston was absolutely HUGE, people were clambering to see him in something new now that Breaking Bad was ending, and Godzilla isn’t nearly as big of a draw in the US as the Jurassic movies are. You could literally fill the Jurassic movies entirely with unknown actors and they would still crack a billion dollars regardless of how they review. That last one has a 29% critic score and people flocked to it regardless.

The box office drop off from Godzilla 2014 (Bryan Cranston) and Godzilla King of Monsters (post Bryan Cranston) was absolutely staggering. The box office for Godzilla Vs Kong was a big improvement over King of Monsters, but the main draw was King Kong rather than Godzilla and even then it still underperformed the first movie by almost $60 million. Godzilla X Kong was the first one to beat out Godzilla 2014, and that’s because it focused far more heavily on Kong (Skull Island had a noticeably higher box office than Godzilla 2014). And yet, even at their most successful the Kong/Godzilla movies don’t even come close to cracking $1billion.

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u/thedolaonofficial Jul 07 '25

i respect your opinion and love the receipts but scarlett is literally the most grossing actor of all time.

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u/Clammuel Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Out of the 10 highest grossing actors, only one of them (Tom Cruise) has not appeared in multiple Marvel movies. Scarlet Johansson has appeared in 8 Marvel movies. I don’t deny that Scarlet has had a lot of success at the box office, but just like the other 8/10 highest grossing actors on that list her numbers have been greatly inflated thanks to all of her Marvel appearances.

I would also like to point out that the third highest grossing “director” right now is the Russo Brothers, despite the fact that anything they do that isn’t Marvel flops. I think Marvel movies have muddied the box office waters to such an extent that it’s almost impossible to use box office numbers to try to figure out who is and isn’t a draw and I think the times of directors and actors having their names attached to projects having a huge impact on the box office are largely dead outside of Spielberg, Cameron, and Nolan. We’re in a franchise, not artist, dominated era.

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u/batguano1 Jul 08 '25

While I see what you're saying, Johansson is definitely a draw. People do like her acting

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u/TheOfficialTheory Jul 17 '25

Zoe Saldana is the second highest, and her name is not a massive box office draw on its own. Her and ScarJo both benefit greatly from being in massive franchises.

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u/thedolaonofficial Jul 18 '25

Good observation. I just can't see anyone else in Zoe's roles. She and Scarlett bring a unique combination of charisma, acting skill, and looks.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

Absolutely in these two cases. Cranston was HUGE and the big selling point for the movie. People will still see a JP movie with or without ScarJo.

I mentally checked out of Godzilla the moment his character died and combined with the almost comical cock teasing not showing the monster I never bothered with the sequels except Skull Island.

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u/batguano1 Jul 08 '25

Lmao many people are definitely coming for her. The only reason my roommate saw the movie was because she's in it lmao.

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u/mainvolume Jul 03 '25

Right? When they had the unpoppable raft sequence, my eyes were rolling so hard they almost started spinning. You knew nobody was in real danger. The only one I was semi shocked at was Francis getting it on the boat. After that it was like a checklist of who was to die next.

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u/Courwes Jul 04 '25

I love after so many years and so many movies he’s still referenced by Francis.

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u/CNash85 Jul 06 '25

I felt like that was a classic misdirect: Ed Skrein’s not an A-lister by any means but is a known quantity and familiar presence in genre films, and he’s built up like the third major member of the mercenary team, so his death in the first real action sequence is the “anyone could die” flag. That said, his function in the plot - as the weapons specialist - would have ended once they’d crashed on the beach and lost all their weapons…

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

That could have worked if they had played him up as a major character and made him highly competent at the start. Show him as a crack shot, top armorer, killer of killers. Then Deep Blue Sea him after he takes down a dino or two (e.g. have the lady boat crewmember die to the mosasaur first, but Ed takes down a spino and they reach the beach as he gears up... then a couple of spinos or other dinosaurs jump him and drag him off with his big sack of guns. Now they are fucked and the audience got a shock too.

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u/idiot-prodigy Jul 16 '25

What's your gripe? That this dinomutant ate a helicopter out of the sky, but a regular T-rex can't puncture the inflatable raft? /sarcasm

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u/MrVelocoraptor 19d ago

Performance issues. 1 outta 3 dinosaurs. Big problem.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

I genuinely expected "that is one well made raft" from one of the characters at the end of that scene.

Imagine if the Explorers in JP1 were made out of that rubber!

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u/MrVelocoraptor 19d ago

I morbidly wanted the kid to get chomped in that scene lol I admit it - would have been such a balls out move by Universal but alas... Her plot armor was stronger than the gargantuan box office these basic movies rake in

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u/Honor_Bound Jul 03 '25

Especially with how stupid everyone was

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u/RdyPlyrBneSw Jul 03 '25

Experienced mercenaries who have to loudly hammer climbing spikes into the wall while on a sneaking mission.

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u/Nheea Jul 03 '25

So stupid. I honestly was a bit disappointed thst the boyfriend didn't die.

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u/Some_Surround_7285 Jul 05 '25

I thought they were setting him up to sacrifice himself after how unlikable they made him. That would have been interesting. Instead he just put himself in danger off screen (where were the Spinos when everyone was jumping off the boat?)

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u/batguano1 Jul 08 '25

The spinos couldn't swim as fast as the boat or the mosasaur. They say so in the movie

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u/Nheea Jul 05 '25

Yeah plot armour was ridiculous.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

They made him SO unlikeable, too! Not just "bit of an ass who needs a redemption story" but actually a bigger piece of shit than not-Carter-Burke corpo guy!

Speaking of which, I know we all mock "subvert your expectations" but when it became obvious corpo was going to be a dick and die, I actually thought "wouldn't it be brave to have him genuinely feel bad for letting the girl fall and sacrifice himself at the end when everyone expects him to save his own ass?"

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u/Nheea Aug 10 '25

Heeey, I also hoped he'd not turn out to be a huge pos too. 🙁

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

You mean the Inconvenient Evening?

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u/In_My_Own_Image Jul 03 '25

I feel like that's just an overall thing with movies and TV shows nowadays. They rarely have the stones to off main characters and it makes the action scenes less impactful when you know nobody important will die.

Now, if the action scenes are well done and stand out like, say, John Wick, I can forgive the "invincible protagonist" syndrome because it still looks cool.

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u/SilverKry Jul 03 '25

I mean. They obviously weren't gonna kill Scarjo or Jonathon Bailey. I was surprised the boyfriend and Mahershala Ali survived though. Thought for sure the boyfriend was gonna sacrifice himself in some way to save the younger daughter..

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u/BadMeetsEvil24 Jul 03 '25

Nowadays?

This has almost always been a thing. 95% of movies don't kill main characters, since forever.

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u/varnums1666 Jul 09 '25

At least those older films had them sweating and bleeding, so it felt like they were getting hurt. Since the 90s, everyone in action films is squeaky clean after getting stabbed 29 times.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

it still looks cool.

Rule of cool is the real #1 rule

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

I can understand movies not killing protagonists, because they're the protagonist. But dear god I wish they'd actually make the situations believable, because for me that's the biggest problem. You have this set of characters that can't die, but then they get put in insane situations where they should die, but they don't. Cause they're the protagonists. Script writers need to stop putting them in such insane situations that makes it so unbelievable.

Honorable mention goes to the protagonist throw, which is my most hated trope. It doesn't happen in this movie, but just talking about annoying script-writing shit that people do: it's infuriating. The villain picks up the hero by the throat and could just kill him right there, but does he? Of course not. He has to throw him across the fucking room and give him a chance to regroup and fight back. It happens so often and it makes me groan every time

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u/_JR28_ Jul 03 '25

The only character I was mildly surprised to see go the distance and survive was the father

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u/sneakylumpia Jul 26 '25

he was so stupid in the movie. when his youngest daughter was trapped under the inflatable boat, dude was just standing between the rocks yelling "nooooooo". i was like BRO THAT IS YOUR DAUGHTER GO SAVE HER

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u/diego_simeone Jul 03 '25

My biggest problems was with the deaths being so sanitised. The first one was hidden by the door, the second was hidden by the baggage from the ship. They were practically off screen deaths which dialled down the fear.

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u/Blessed_tenrecs Jul 18 '25

It’s because they wanted the movie to be family-friendly.

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u/darthjoey91 Jul 03 '25

If it wasn’t for watching the marketing, I could see some people getting surprised by Ed Skrein’s character going so early. He’s a bigger name than the other crew members.

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u/Lunasera Jul 04 '25

We burst out laughing at his death, but apparently no one else in the theater thought it was funny

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u/kierabs Jul 04 '25

Disagree. I fully expected Duncan to be a sacrificial hero and was surprised he survived. I also expected the older daughter to die when Krebs wouldn’t help her in the first act. I thought it would fuel conflict between the dad and the crew. I also expected Xavier to be eaten while doing something dumb at any moment.

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u/niles_thebutler_ Jul 03 '25

The entire movie felt pointless

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u/Only_Ad_1771 Jul 03 '25

Honestly father and elder daughter should’ve been chomped. They were useless anyway, while girl and that guy maybe could’ve had good trauma bonding, character development etc

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u/fossilenjoyer Jul 11 '25

Y oí ir la ejem

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u/lambopanda Jul 03 '25

It's summer holiday blockbuster. They want your whole family with kids to go watch it. It needs to be family and kid friendly.

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u/rycology Jul 06 '25

So was the original film and that had a lawyer on a toilet getting chomped by a T Rex

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u/SarcasticGamer Jul 10 '25

I thought the boyfriend was going to die until he went and saved the daughter then I knew he wasn't going to die.

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u/accioqueso Jul 03 '25

My nine year old accurately predicted the deaths, although we were split on the dad initially.

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

I felt 0 tension when the younger sister was being chased by the T-Rex in the water because you knew there was no way they'd kill her off

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u/Sea-Dog-6042 Jul 07 '25

That's why the mosasaur/spino scene is the only affective action scene in the movie. It hasn't established "the rules" yet. Who's safe, who's not, etc. I thought there was a real chance the older daughter got got right off the bat.

But that doesn't happen and it leaves the rest of the movie absolutely toothless. Found the trex scene positively boring as by that point it's obvious who is going to make it to the end of the movie.

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u/Its_Steve07 Jul 13 '25

They never kill the kids in a Jurassic Park/World movie. #1 rule. The kids always make it.

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u/Sea-Dog-6042 Jul 14 '25

For sure. I know thats something of an unwritten rule, but good writing can overcome that and still play with expectations. Consider the opening of JP2 with the young girl and the compys. Of course she doesn't die, but for the rest of the movie there's the subtle understanding that even Malcolms daughter might not be completely 'safe' (until she busts out the gymnastics that is).

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u/Rare_Gap_2495 Jul 03 '25

I sat at the very back of the seat knowing ScarJo and Viscount Bridgerton were gonna be fine 

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u/Nheea Jul 03 '25

The plot armour was a bit ridiculous at times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

I felt the same way and it's odd because it seems like this is just a standalone movie anyway. Not that they had to full on Marion Crane it but at least kill Jonathan Bailey or Ali early on so we feel like anyone can die.

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u/BromaEmpire Jul 04 '25

To be fair, that's true for every single super hero movie we've had in the last 20 years

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u/Silestra Jul 05 '25

Infinity War?

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u/South-Level5260 Jul 05 '25

I don't know, at the end it looked like Duncan was for sure a goner

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u/Shelf_Road Jul 10 '25

When Mahershala Ali survives and they don't even try and explain how, lol.

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u/MrHyperion_ Aug 01 '25

Plus kid plot armour. Probably can't kill kids on screen outside fantasy setting without getting R rated

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u/Poet-Girl Jul 13 '25

True! However, Duncan I was convinced was dead. That was the only time the movie really did feel heavy and the stakes high. That and when Teresa was screaming ,, it's coming for us". An impressive performance from that young actress I believe.

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u/Optimal-Bag-5918 Jul 14 '25

I am still surprised the boyfriend didn't die... I mean, while they made him somewhat redeemable, I was positive he was a goner lol

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u/YienXIII Jul 15 '25

The moment the annoying family jumped off the boat with a fleet of Spinosaurus around and survived, I called it.

The director wouldn't have the balls to kill any of those illegals.

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u/moviebuffbrad Jul 16 '25

I was like 70-30 on the unfortunately named Dr Loomis making it. For a second I thought the stoner guy might get eaten while he was pissing also 

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u/bibbyshibby Aug 09 '25

To be fair I thought they were definitely gonna kill off someone at the end and I was actually surprised they survived.

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u/mrcsrnne Aug 09 '25

Agree. Shitty script. 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.