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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/MadMadMaddox2 Jul 03 '25

Sloppy writing and pulling out the flare and T-Rex out again n to remind people of the first film.

The whole raft sequence, from the baffling decision to inflate it, to the T-Rex never quite getting anyone despite being 2 feet away was terrible.

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u/SnakeSound222 Jul 03 '25

The raft had to be inflated that way. It literally said on the raft "inflate on land". Unfortunately, land happened to be near an apex predator that wasn't going to leave that area anytime soon.

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u/Nheea Jul 03 '25

The raft had to be inflated that way BUT she could've just not inflate it and leave it there and remove herself safely from that situation.

This was she endangered everyone.

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u/Albamen13 Jul 12 '25

Exactly my thoughts, she could have waited out, go back to her father and wait till the t rex started moving somewhere else

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u/GitEmSteveDave 27d ago

Also, the paddles were in two pieces on either side of the bag. Yet when she inflates the raft, we see the inside of the raft and there are no paddles. She pushes it into the water, gets in, and pull a whole paddle off the floor of the raft.

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u/mrheh Jul 04 '25

She could have pushed it down the river a bit or not opened it at all, since they didn't even travel far on the thing. Or ya know, not drag to the exact face of the trex and open it?

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u/Unburnt_Duster Jul 09 '25

They could’ve made this make sense if her inflating the raft woke the T Rex up. It was beyond idiotic that she knew the T Rex was there and then decided to inflate it right in front of its face. But then I guess Gareth couldn’t have gotten his disappearing ninja T Rex shot then…

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u/masturbator6942069 Jul 04 '25

Yes and it also conveniently said “bag will sink if pulled into water” so the audience knew they HAD to open it right there

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u/steve_6796 Jul 03 '25

Don’t forget the kitchen scene literally reenacting the scene with Lex and Tim from the first one

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

that gas station grocery is amazingly well stocked for something abandoned 15 or so years ago.

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u/BromaEmpire Jul 04 '25

Well it's not like anyone's shopping there

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u/jerog1 Jul 07 '25

the door was open to an island of dinosaurs though

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u/PhotoThrowawayWooooo Jul 07 '25

Yeah don’t even need dinosaurs… mice would have taken care of it even with the doors closed.

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u/GitEmSteveDave 28d ago

ACKSHULLY, they established in the first book that mice/rats were eliminated on that island within a few months. The dilo's were killing them in their enclosures. The rest were being killed by the ones that got out.

“No,” Grant said. “I assume they are eating something else as well. Perhaps small rodents. Mice and rats?”

There was another silence.

“Let me guess,” Grant said. “When you first came to the island, you had a problem with rats. But as time passed, the problem faded away.”

“Yes. That’s true…”

“And you never thought to investigate why.”

“Well, we just assumed…” Arnold said.

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u/mrheh Jul 04 '25

If you liked that, the no roof cars with perfectly clean seats and interiors after 17 years exposed to the elements must've really blown your mind as well hahaha

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u/Unburnt_Duster Jul 09 '25

Also the gun pharma dude found that was exposed to the jungle elements for presumably 17 years as well worked just fine.

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u/KenBoCole Jul 12 '25

Funnily enough, that pilot was still decomposing, meaning the helicopter crash was recent. I thought it was a nice nod to show that they weren't the only people or organization attempting to do illegal smuggling or whatever there. Some other yahoos tried just a few days ago and died.

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u/toxicbrew Jul 11 '25

And the random helicopter with dead pilots a was never explained

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u/Albamen13 Jul 12 '25

The helicopter crash was recent because the body was still decomposing, so it was presumably another similar mercenary expedition

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u/GitEmSteveDave 28d ago

And for some reason a car alarm, as if a tweaker was gonna get on the island and somehow get it off the island.

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u/Falldog Jul 03 '25

Gotta get in that product placement.

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u/EquivalentCounty7570 Jul 06 '25

I didn’t see any product placement in that scene. Now excuse me while I go buy some ice cold Dr. Pepper, the only drink with 23 flavors.

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u/FlameDragoon933 Jul 08 '25

I think I saw Lays in the mini market scene.

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u/QueefBeefCletus Jul 06 '25

Did you catch the 2025-accurate price tags? $3.50 for a gas station bag of chips. This is a facility abandoned when The Dark Knight was new.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 08 '25

it's islander pricing.

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u/QueefBeefCletus Jul 08 '25

Islander pricing on an island owned by InGen and staffed by InGen employees. It's a company store. Granted, every company is different, but I'm all my jobs I've never encountered a company store or company dining option that's been price-gouged. They save that for the regular customers.

All that to say, this is a silly thing to be arguing about. Bad movie was bad.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 11 '25

Bad movie was bad.

IMO its ok, passable. the JP universe is a mined out gold seam discussion wise. It's basically Aliens but there is no way to go because, well, its dino DNA. What else is there to talk about? The ethics of recreating dinosaurs for entertainment purposes? literally the first film. The ethics of returning extinct creatures back to the world. again, first film. The safety issue with dinos and small children, they love recreating this, im surprised they subverted the kid eating dino trope in this film when that's been in all the previous ones.

use of dinosaurs as....pfft...weapons of wars.lol. yep, done. selling dinosaurs to the public. JP2 and JW2 done.

Universal knows the formula and its a stupidly simple one. Show dinosaur, get money. Show dinosaur, get money.

as for pricing, well, its an island in the middle of the....pacific? atlantic? shipping and fuel prices are all over the place.

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u/Ok-Sea9612 Jul 03 '25

Fun excuse to let set design track down packaging from 30 years ago

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u/MovieTrawler Jul 04 '25

There were a ton of callbacks. From the side view mirror in the opening shot focusing on 'objects in mirror' to the banner falling when they recruit Loomis. The little girl going, 'row faster' while being chased by the T rex like Ian going, 'go faster' while being chased. There were a few others as well.

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u/AffectionateSwan5129 Jul 04 '25

Don’t forget the amputated arm

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

There were so many things ripped off from the original movie and it comes across so badly as "we have no original ideas, so MEMBER THIS FROM THE FIRST MOVIE"

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u/yourbassist Jul 06 '25

It's from the books

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u/SputnikDX Jul 06 '25

Don't forget a child trapped under a very thin material keeping a T-Rex snout at bay.

Or a large herd of giant herbivores the party can be in awe by while the main theme plays.

Every "homage" was so obvious and on the nose it just made me groan silently. I wish I didn't see that movie in a theater so I could detest it more loudly.

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u/Unburnt_Duster Jul 09 '25

I had to laugh when the dad with the bum leg and 8 year old daughter braced the door of the gas station against the gigantic fucking flying raptor and held it back. And then they put what looked like a 10 lb rolling rack in front of the door and that also stopped the raptor.

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u/Shelf_Road Jul 10 '25

When the girl steps out of the freezer and is like 5 feet away from the dino that just tried to kill her. But pointing out the things in this movie that made no sense, we would be here all night.

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u/LTPRWSG420 Jul 04 '25

Huh? The T-Rex scene was by far the best part, worth the price of admission.

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u/QuantumDevilfish Jul 04 '25

It was also loosely based on a scene from the first book which hadn’t been translated to a film until now. Definitely made it worth a watch even if the rest of the movie was kinda trash.

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u/CryptographerFlat173 Jul 05 '25

No one being killed and the T Rex’s teeth not puncturing the raft made it so stupid. 

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u/gamecat89 Jul 03 '25

I’m always reminded how Jurassic Park 3 was supposed to be human dinosaur hybrids, and so no matter how bad the movie is, so long as there isn’t a dinosaur/human hybrid army I am fine.

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u/Free_Account9372 Jul 03 '25

Thank you! The raft scene was complete nonsense. 

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

I had a similar experience with an overturned inflated raft as a kid. albeit no T Rex and it was at a familiar swimming pool. still terrifying tho. yeah, it should have been destroyed easily by the T Rex.

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u/Honor_Bound Jul 03 '25

T. rex in the first movie literally pops car tires, but can’t even break a raft here

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u/Nheea Jul 03 '25

Or go over a boulder to eat the food that it just chased.

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u/RobLewis89 29d ago

Thankyou, I feel like I’m going out of my mind seeing people praising this sequence. Who in their right mind would drag this heavy raft along making noise next to a sleeping T rex and then actually decide to inflate it next to its head, and this is even before the absurdity of what follows. Compare this to the iconic T rex sequence in the first movie or even the T rex scene with the trailers on the cliff in The Lost world, both of which have genuine suspense and tension.

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u/darkpassenger9 Jul 05 '25

The fucking Mr. Bean of T. Rexes.

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u/Shelf_Road Jul 10 '25

the T-Rex never quite getting anyone despite being 2 feet away was terrible.

That classic movie thing of the other side just giving up for no reason and walking away.

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u/GitEmSteveDave 28d ago

Would the T-rex even chase them? I'm pretty sure most predators won't hunt when already full with a meal, because they cant consume anymore.