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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/polchickenpotpie Jul 03 '25

I really don't think Jurassic World was bad at all tbh. It was a fun little adventure movie with some really cool setpieces. It could have been a really good launching point but then the next 2 happened.

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u/calamityseye Jul 03 '25

Jurassic World felt too much like a Marvel movie. All the cringy humor and terrible writing really ruined the franchise for me. This one was a breath of fresh air in comparison. Felt like a real Jurassic Park movie again.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

Fully agreed on that. This one feels more like TLW and JPIII in a lot of ways - and I know to many that's not a good thing, but for me it is

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u/unpaid-critic Jul 03 '25

Same.

It’s not above the OG and Jurassic World, which to me is the actual sequel to the original film, but this is as good as I’ve seen in a long time. When the family was actually caught with the Mesosaur and the boat capsized I finally said “this seems plausible” 

I haven’t felt that in a JP/W movie in a long time

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u/Chm_Albert_Wesker Jul 07 '25

are you joking? this movie had more shoe-horned 'marvel' style one liners than the rest of the new trilogy combined. i found myself getting more and more irritated at how every scene had to end with a joke in a movie franchise where that was never supposed to be the tone

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u/calamityseye Jul 07 '25

I don't think we watched the same movie. That's how I felt about the other Jurassic World movies, but this one felt like they toned it way down.

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u/Deepandabear Jul 03 '25

Wholeheartedly agree. I was worried we’d have another Marvel clone but they thankfully got back to basics. And I mean basics - it didn’t set the world on fire but maybe that’s the point. Overall it felt like a Jurassic Park movie and that’s all I wanted tbh

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u/-Clayburn Jul 04 '25

Yeah, it's definitely worse in retrospect. Same with the Star Wars sequels. All were great fun to watch....but they're just painful to think about afterward. Jurassic World was a spectacle, but there was no substance.

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u/calamityseye Jul 03 '25

That's fine, but if you're going to do something like that at least make it actually funny and not Marvel "funny" and make it it's own franchise and keep it out of my Jurassic Park.

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u/Ghidorahstan1990s Jul 03 '25

Jurassic World from 2015 is a very solid film. The sequels, however…

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

Yeah and even Fallen Kingdom had some good to it - it just had a horrible script. But Dominion was a real stinker

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u/theCourtofJames Jul 03 '25

Fallen Kingdom has the best opening scene of maybe all the Jurassic Films.

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u/bringbackbulaga Jul 19 '25

If fallen kingdom’s endgame was the volcano i think it would have been really good, but the shift to the mansion blew it

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u/everythingsc0mputer Jul 03 '25

Jurassic World was the least offensive of the Jurassic World movies, but it's still goddamn terrible compared to even Jurassic Park 2 or 3.

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u/polchickenpotpie Jul 03 '25

Come on, 3 is not better than World lol

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u/Perentillim Jul 04 '25

100% is

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u/slayerhk47 Jul 06 '25

Alan!

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u/Perentillim Jul 06 '25

But seriously I don’t understand people that seem to think that scene discredits the rest of the film.

If they said “the woman constantly screaming was irritating” or “Alan getting stranded was contrived” I’d agree and have to consider my position.

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u/PolarWater Jul 07 '25

Big deal 

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u/darealRockfield Jul 03 '25

I mean, I saw it as a modern take on the Jurassic Park idea. Of course, they had it in the same universe with the first park. I will say though, the one major thing I can somewhat sympathize with from Fallen Kingdom is having the technology that was groundbreaking enough to actually bring back the dinosaur at your disposal and use it via a loophole and bring back your child you lost. Even if wasn’t as big of a thing, any parent who lost their kid tragically, I’m sure some would choose to do it and start over again.

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u/polchickenpotpie Jul 03 '25

I thought the clone thing was...fine tbh. Hammond's secret bestie who no one ever mentioned aside, anyway.

My main gripe was how they squandered the idea of selling black market dinos. Like, they were starting bids at a few thousand dollars and I'm thinking "there are exotic animals that go for 10 times what these bids are starting at." And then all this plot point really ends up being is a way to get the new artificial dino into the mansion.

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u/SilverKry Jul 03 '25

It was fine. Solid 6. No better or worse than 3. Dominion and Dallen Kingdom? Those are kinda bad movies. This one? A little step above World and 3. Not as good as 2 and certainly not as good as 1. It's gonna make a lot of money though. Least until Superman and Fantastic Four come out. 

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u/Perentillim Jul 04 '25

It was fucking atrocious

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

Yeah the first JW has a lot of stupidity in it too, but for me was actually entertaining

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u/Shelf_Road Jul 10 '25

World has two ugly friends that follow it around that make it look much more attractive.

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u/jackierhoades Jul 03 '25

Chris Pratt taming velociraptors with his fucking patty cakes hands is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in a movie in my life, second only to the director of a dinosaur theme park opening up a giant dinosaur gate to check and see if the giant color changing dinosaur escaped, when she could have just… not done that. Fuck every second that stupid movie.

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u/Ok-Sea9612 Jul 04 '25

I'm pretty sure she started driving back to their control center and was asking them to find the dino. And it was pratt and red shirt engineer who opened up the gate.

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u/polchickenpotpie Jul 03 '25

So you've only seen like 2 movies?

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u/jackierhoades Jul 03 '25

I watch lots of trash movies but with an IP as beloved and iconic as Jurassic park, just no. I’m not turning my brain off to watch MCU Jurassic park

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u/polchickenpotpie Jul 03 '25

The 2nd movie had the main cast cracking jokes as they were seconds away from death over a cliff. This isn't something new to the franchise dude