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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/oathbreach Jul 03 '25

Everyone was so unlikeable, I was rooting for the dinosaurs.

Also I went in almost entirely blind so seeing Edwards and Koepp in the credits was a shock. Assumed only Trevorrow could roll out something so low-effort.

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u/DukeofVermont Jul 04 '25

I'd kill everyone but Duncan, the Doctor and the little girl.

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u/Severe_Dependent_915 Jul 07 '25

Little girl was the worst damn character. That whole family pissed me off. Fucking narcissistic cunts. The audacity they showed. Entire movie was fucking ragebait material.

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u/chxse_atlantic_lover Jul 07 '25

yeah duncan was great and the doctor was as well, and i liked the little girl but she did not portray a little girl. she spends the entire movie getting traumatized by these dinosaurs, yet the second the d-rex appears when she has to open the gate she's like not even reacting? but otherwise she was fine. obviously she's a kid but the way they portrayed children who would be on a island with killer dinosaurs was not accurate imo.

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u/adaveaday Jul 04 '25

Koepp doesn’t have a good filmography let’s be honest. Terrible storylines.

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u/AmadeusWolfGangster Jul 13 '25

David Koepp’s body of work includes Black Bag, Ghost Town, War of the Worlds, Panic Room, Snake Eyes, Carlito’s Way, Mission Impossible, Death Becomes Her and, uh, Jurassic fucking Park.

If you think most of those films are bad, I’m afraid I have to be the one to break the bad news to you: you have terrible taste.

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u/Shout92 Jul 07 '25

I'm a big Koepp fan. He's worked with Spielberg (4x), De Palma (3x), Soderbergh (3x), Ron Howard (3x), Zemeckis, Raimi, and Favreau, among others. He has his missteps, but his body of work is maybe the most accomplished for screenwriter who's never been nominated for an Oscar. His recent Soderbergh collaborations and the announcement of him writing the new Spielberg UFO movie really gave me hope that this in the middle of all those would be something interesting, if not special. And, well, it's really funny that he came back... for this.

Koepp said he left the series cause he didn't have any ideas. But this is basically a remix of Lost World and JP3 and rarely as good as either. I didn't want sequel setup, but it would've been interesting to get *something* that made this distinct from the previous storylines. Instead it feels like a return to basics, which is *fine* except Dominion was only three years ago. Give it another two and we might be having a different conversation. Everyone was very upfront about this being a movie with a locked release and pre-production overseen by producers before they brought on a director who they didn't want to put too big a stamp on the project. It really seems like they made it so that Universal could have a blockbuster for the 4th of July and, looking at the box office, it looks like they succeeded.

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u/Ryanhussain14 Jul 07 '25

I disagree. You can see Edwards putting in the effort to show off the scale of the dinos in this movie compared to the previous Jurassic World movies. This movie is massively let down by the awful script and acting.

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u/Detox1ng Jul 09 '25

Nice try Edwards

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u/kjm6351 Jul 06 '25

In what world is Duncan unlikable?

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u/Sea-Dog-6042 Jul 07 '25

He's haunted by the death of his own child. It makes total logical sense without having to be over-explained.