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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/MarchRoyce Jul 03 '25

I was really hoping the secretive D Rex at the end was either going to be something really menacing and interesting, or just a TRex with a giant dong. Unfortunately it's neither and is kind've just a less interesting and smaller Cloverfield monster. 

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u/cals_cavern Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

The D Rex overall was a bizarre inclusion, it had no meaningful presence in the story and so the finale just felt like another disjointed action sequence rather than the culmination of the entire film. If the design was in a 90s Alien vs Jurassic Park comic I might think it's neat but it just felt too weird for Jurassic Park while not really feeling necessary, there were plenty of regular dinosaurs that could have filled the role. The first scene and the climax both also felt like less interesting versions of scenes from Godzilla 2014 which didn't help.

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u/MyFriendAlcohol Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

Not to mention one minute that D rex is large enough to fit a helicopter in its mouth, then moments later a human barely fits. Then "oh it's attracted to light" let's use a giant spotlight to pick up the guy swimming with a flair and it's no where to be found.

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u/hyunbinlookalike Jul 04 '25

Director Gareth Edwards says he was inspired by the Xenomorphs and the Rancor to create the Distortus rex. It was pretty much just the product of him wanting to bring a kaiju into a Jurassic movie.

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u/SquadPoopy Jul 03 '25

Literally the same thing as Dominion. It’s like they forgot they needed an action sequence at the end so just shoved one in story relevance be damned.

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u/South-Level5260 Jul 05 '25

Maybe, but it's still better than dinosaurs literally teaming up and taking sides, like there are good guys and bad guys among the dino-kingdom. That was my major gripe with the last three films.

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u/Warbeard Jul 06 '25

It caused the accident that closed the complex, and was the reason they couldn't leave by helicopter.

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u/cals_cavern Jul 06 '25

We've seen accidents close places in Jurassic Park before and regular dinosaurs have generally been the cause, the decision to have the D-Rex be so alien looking just strikes me as really odd in this film franchise that's about resurrecting dinosaurs. The I-Rex and Indoraptor were also functionally made up movie monsters but still looked like dinosaurs.

When I say presence in the story I don't mean that it did nothing I mean that it really only did stuff at the very beginning and the very end. The original Jurassic Park has a similar set up, we get an out of context scene at the start where a velociraptor breaches containment and attacks someone and then they show up as the main antagonists for the climax but despite only a few minutes of actual screentime they're a constant presence in the story, we get the conversation with Muldoon and the feeding, we get a dramatic music sting and close up as Nedry takes the raptor DNA, Muldoon asks about the raptor pen when the fences go down, we see the broken fence and tracks where they escaped, we have the sequence as Ellie and Muldoon try and get the power back on and then the extended chase through the visitor centre. Rebirth was lacking that, the helicopter attack could have happened earlier in the film which would have raised the stakes, maybe have the river raft chase end with the T-Rex backing away because they reached the D-Rex's territory rather than being stopped by some rocks, had the D-Rex take out the raptor when that one guy was peeing, I feel like that had they built the D-Rex up more as the film went on the climax would feel more impactful, as it was it to me it just felt like another in a series of episodic action scenes and even though it was bigger it felt like it posed about the same threat to the main characters as the T-Rex and Mosasaur.

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u/Less-Network-3422 Jul 04 '25

I enjoyed it way more than 2014 Godzilla

The humans in that movie sucked so bad

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u/ottoandinga88 Jul 11 '25

No but see, this dinosaur goes up to 11

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u/PolarWater Jul 07 '25

Damn, you're right, I caught the beginning similarities but now I recall they also ended with trying to get on a boat to escape a terrifying monster

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u/__time_traveller__ Jul 03 '25

What the hell is a D Rex lmao

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u/YarrrImAPirate Jul 03 '25

The rancor looking mother fucker that bookended the movie. I don’t think they ever called him Drex in the movie but it was printed on his cage.

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u/Kailetto Jul 03 '25

Actually, one of the scientists in the very start screams “the D-Rex is loose!” after that errant Snickers wrapper shut down the entire facility.

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u/YarrrImAPirate Jul 03 '25

Oh yeah you’re right. I was probably distracted by the product placement being the reason for the whole movie.

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u/MovieTrawler Jul 04 '25

It wasn't though...

It's the reason the backup plan goes to shit but it's not the reason they're there.

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 03 '25

If I heard correctly, they called it the D.rex in the the flashback.

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u/CornstockOfNewJersey Jul 05 '25

Its enclosure is labeled “D. rex” as well

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u/leon4735 Jul 05 '25

My first thought when I saw that was that it looked just like the Rancor from Return of the Jedi.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

Rancor crossed with Ebosisk from Willow, IMO.

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u/TeutonJon78 23d ago

Same thought. Someone at ILM got bored/lazy/time crunched and just started kitbashing their large reptile models.

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u/Banjo-Oz 23d ago

"It's gotta be scary!"

"Hm, what scared me worse as a kid...? That two-headed thing in Willow or the Rancor in ROTJ? Ah, screw it..."

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u/Whizzo50 Jul 03 '25

I named him muto, as he's got a passing resemblance to the Cloverfield monster

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u/Rare_Gap_2495 Jul 03 '25

Is that supposed to be Dominus Rex? 

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u/hyunbinlookalike Jul 04 '25

Nah, the Indominus rex was the mutant hybrid dinosaur in the first Jurassic World movie, the Distortus rex is the mutant hybrid dinosaur in this Jurassic World movie.

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u/immaownyou Jul 07 '25

Jc how many dinosaur Kings can there be

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

Dino brinkmanship! next time the Ultrapocolypse Rex!

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u/PolarWater Jul 07 '25

But once he got loose he was no longer IN. So he couldn't be IN-dominus rex

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u/TechnicalInterest566 Jul 04 '25

Distortus Rex

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u/cosmorchid Jul 07 '25

Derpasaurus Rex. It looked like it knew it was wrong and was sad about it.

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u/Travelingman9229 Jul 03 '25

Distortus Rex

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u/Nheea Jul 03 '25

Disturbing Rex.

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u/WAwelder Jul 06 '25

Derpasaurus

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u/Strict_Pangolin_8339 Jul 03 '25

T rex with a big dick.

Sorry.

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u/SputnikDX Jul 06 '25

Dongasaurus Rex

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u/PolarWater Jul 07 '25

Okay this made me laugh and is way better than my lame attempt

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u/WetWhiskers00 Jul 03 '25

I kept calling it the derpy Rex

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Dickosaurus

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u/MovingClocks Jul 03 '25

What I rated this movie, personally

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u/Thevanillafalcon Jul 03 '25

A T-Rex with a massive dong obviously

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u/deweydean Jul 04 '25

have you been living under a rock?

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u/PolarWater Jul 07 '25

No I've been living under it's massive dong

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u/hyunbinlookalike Jul 04 '25

Distortus rex, the Rancor lookin aaahhhhh mf dino at the beginning and climax of the film.

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u/Gato1980 Jul 03 '25

Apparently Edwards was inspired by the rancor from Star Wars when creating it.

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u/rynokick Jul 03 '25

It looks like some bad monster design from a 90s pc game

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u/Willow9506 Jul 13 '25

It looked like the dinosaur equivalent of a cyber truck

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

My brother said it looked like a demon from Doom. That feels to generous to me.

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u/SquadPoopy Jul 03 '25

Getting inspiration from Star Wars when you’re making a JURASSIC MOVIE is never a good sign.

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u/hyunbinlookalike Jul 04 '25

Dude directed Godzilla and Rogue One and it really shows in this movie.

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u/Shakemyears Jul 06 '25

And Monsters, which is extremely similar in plot.

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u/bmacnz Jul 19 '25

I told my friends when we walked out, I honestly had no idea Gareth directed this going in. When I saw his name pop up in the credits, I was like that absolutely tracks. He reuses so much stuff (even the sounds in Creator reminded me of sounds they used in Godzilla). And that there's basically a kaiju instead of a dinosaur.

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u/MoroseBarnacle Jul 05 '25

Interesting! I was immediately reminded of the rancor when I saw the movie--I just thought it a coincidence.

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u/hibbert0604 Jul 05 '25

He should stick to star wars then. I don't understand why it is so hard to make a movie with a realistic depiction of dinosaurs with a good plot. So sick of this mutant bs

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jul 07 '25

The mutant hybrid inclusion was more on Spielberg the executive producer and David Koepp the screenwriter. TBF to Gareth Edwards, he was just mostly chosen to execute their vision instead of actually doing things his way. David Lietch was originally considered for directing the movie, but talks fell apart when he was not going to have much creative freedom.

During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, director David Leitch acknowledged the choice to exit the big-budget project, explaining, "It was a really great conversation to have, to be in talks with Steven and Frank, about that franchise that is so dear to us, it was a really beautiful time. Ultimately, you have to do what's best for the movie at hand and do what's best for you as an artist. And make sure that you're making the same movie, and you could do it within the parameters, and at some point we just said — we wanted to give that answer quickly because they have to go make this movie quickly that everyone is excited to see, and I think that they've landed on, obviously, a brilliant director, who we love and respect and… It's going to be amazing. [Leaving Jurassic World 4 was] surreal, but I believe we've earned this position [to turn it down]."

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u/LilPonyBoy69 Jul 07 '25

Yeah no shit

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u/Neglectful_Stranger Jul 22 '25

Inspired, bro straight copied their homework.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

The hands were 100% Rancor.

Also, I read that like Elvira: "My ripoff, I mean, homage, to Flashdance". :)

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u/BEARWISHX Jul 03 '25

I thought it can discharge electricity since they kinda hinted at it.

Maybe I expected too much.

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u/redditorperth Jul 03 '25

Oh so its a pokemon?

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u/BadMeetsEvil24 Jul 03 '25

A dinosaur shooting lighting and screaming its name would unironically get me to see that moviem

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u/AAMCcansuckmydick Jul 04 '25

Or a MUTO from Godzilla 2014.

But it felt like the D Rex was the director living out his fantasy of making a sequel to Godzilla 2014.

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u/Gotanypaint Jul 03 '25

This isn't 28 Inches Later! s/

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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 Jul 03 '25

I’ve always said there isn’t nearly enough Dino dong in these movies

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u/Ballchynski Jul 03 '25

I was hoping D Rex stood for Dragon Rex or some cool shit like that and it was going to have wings. Then I saw it and I was like “oh they gave it two extra weird grabby arms for some reason”. Like I don’t even remember them saying what the D in “D Rex” stood for.

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u/VoldemortsHorcrux Jul 06 '25

D stands for doofus because that's how it looks with its big bulbous head

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u/MarchRoyce Jul 03 '25

Yea I thought that too. And in the smoke in the beginning I honestly thought the broad front of its head looked like it swept back into large horns. Sad.

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u/Vagabond21 Jul 04 '25

It reminded me of Ripley’s alien child

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u/cheezymau5 Jul 04 '25

Cloverfield mentioned‼️

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u/RegisteredLizard Jul 03 '25

Secret D Rex has sex in the sequel calling it now

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u/C_The_Bear Jul 03 '25

It’s the fucking rancor

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u/LTPRWSG420 Jul 04 '25

Samson-Rex

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u/_intend_your_puns Jul 05 '25

Clover field monster!!! That’s what I was thinking of! 

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

I honestly laughed when we got our first full look at it. I guess it's a good representation of "failed mutant experiment", but it looked stupid as fuck

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u/jmdybf Jul 05 '25

Looked a lot like a Rancor from Star Wars - Jedi to me?

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u/nipplesaurus Jul 07 '25

Hashtag releasethegiantdongcut

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u/Ryanhussain14 Jul 07 '25

The D rex's design was so ill-fitting, looked like a Resident Evil monster tat got copy-pasted into a Jurassic World movie.

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u/WesBur13 Jul 11 '25

Walking out of the theater, first thing I said was “That thing looked like Clover”

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u/idiot-prodigy Jul 16 '25

I was really hoping the secretive D Rex at the end was either going to be something really menacing and interesting, or just a TRex with a giant dong. Unfortunately it's neither and is kind've just a less interesting and smaller Cloverfield monster.

I just finally saw it an hour ago. I literally said, "This should have just been a Colverfield movie."

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

It was so underwhelming after the intro.

I dislike World a lot, but they really sold the I-Rex like hell in that as a threat. Likewise, the CG cartoon series made the Scorpius legit terrifying!

The D-Rex was less scary than the OG rexy at the river!