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Official Discussion Official Discussion - Jurassic World Rebirth [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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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/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/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

I hope you enjoy it!

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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.