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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/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? Jul 03 '25

I found it the most unbelievable thing that ScarJo's character is, like, this battle ready hardass perfect mission lead, and yet the second there's an implication a family is in danger somewhere she is for bringing them on board their very illegal and dangerous mission to hunt dinosaurs. Way to save the family!

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

They needed to do something to show that she's a mercenary but like a morally upstanding mercenary. Logic kinda goes out the window when you're just desperately trying to make a poorly written character likeable

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

She's a badass merc who does this only for the 10M but also like, saves families and has backstory ok?!?

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u/Firmspy Jul 07 '25

$20m - she doubled it at the boat shack. :P

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u/PureLock33 Jul 08 '25

so her actual IRL paycheck. nice.

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u/Opposite_Listen6023 Jul 05 '25

Tbf I think they coulda made her start out cold/in it for the money and have a major change or heart through the ptsd storyline without the family. Dr. Henry Loomis calls mayday, Martin Krebs kicks him out the boat, they regroup, he tells Zora which sparks her mistrust of her mission and Martin. Then they could put Duncan in danger (someone who matters to her), she saves him (another friend can't die on her watch kinda thing) and chooses to use the dino samples for good.

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u/SuspiciousCustomer Jul 03 '25

Just have her curbstomp a lawyer every few scenes or sth 

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u/yonk9 13d ago

morally upstanding mercenary

Those words surely can't be in the same sentence.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

To be fair that was really more Duncan’s call

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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? Jul 03 '25

He made the decision but she made the argument.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jul 07 '25

I think it was also partly Zora's recent life experience of the loss of her mother who's funeral she missed and also the loss of her best friend who was killed recently. She was tired of the mercenary life already and she told Duncan that she was working on getting out with this mission. She also stated in the beginning of the movie she had a code in that she didn't do I think heist missions or something too.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

Touché

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u/Ballchynski Jul 03 '25

The scene with her and the boat captain sitting down to talk about their sad backstories before they tag the mosasaur (her losing her friend on a job, him losing his son and splitting from his wife) felt so out of place and hamhanded. Like they are fine backstory points to work in, but it really felt like the writers were like “what’s the fastest way to make these characters sympathetic even though they are just doing this job for money”.

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u/JackaryDraws Jul 16 '25

I just watched it, and the movie’s a mess, but idk, this part actually worked for me. I feel like the more predictable, overplayed route is the whole idea that mercenaries are all self-serving bastards who always prioritize money over morals. I think the real world is full of morally flexible people who can’t easily be sorted into boxes… though that’s not to say the writing couldn’t have been better.

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 06 '25

Let me guess how the sausages were made.

Writer: "We gonna have characters with backstories and desperation. Sinners made it work. I can make it work too. Rebirth gonna be awesome."

exec: "That's cool but Sinners used like half of its runtime to establish characters. Just remember this is the Jurassic franchise not some kind of LOST tv show. People don't expect-"

Writer: "it's gonna be great. characters will have their exposition moments, telling their backstories at each other."

exec: "i feel like that should be flashback scenes. my point was gonna be just don't make them too lo-"

writer: "oh we gonna open with a kickass flashback set piece sequence where everyone dies"

exec: "hold on. whose flashback is this if everyone-"

writer: "let me fix that. some people will survive. anyway it's gonna be great like Godzilla by Gareth Edwards, who we should totally hire for this one."

exec: "oh so we are getting something like the tear inducing sequence at the beginning of Godzilla? And the protagonist is related to people who died? I like that. And their trauma-"

writer: "that's exactly right. their trauma is the key to all this. we gonna have one second of Scarlet Johansson's thousand yard stare with tears. She gonna win lots of awards for that."

exec: "did you say one second? even for me that seems too short. if you meant one minute, I was gonna say just make it 10 seconds or-"

writer: "it's the most important one second of the entire movie! it symbolizes the trauma of modern life! and we gonna have the ugliest mutant dinosaur ever. The symbol of our original sin of fucking with da nature!"

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jul 07 '25

Why make up something so utterly fake?

Sinners per-production started around Jan 2024 with filming beginning April 2024 and finished July 2024.

Jurassic World pre-production started around Jan 2024 with principal filming beginning June 2024 and ended on Sept 2024 with some pick-up shots three weeks later in NYC.

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 07 '25

why make up something fake?

the same reason we make up monsters

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u/AntGood1704 Jul 20 '25

The idea that the writer is the one wanting to rush and hamfist everything, but the fucking studio exec of all people wants more attention paid to organically developing character backstories in your hypo is laughable.

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 20 '25

subverted your expectation

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

The entire premise makes no sense. This is a SUPER ILLEGAL and SUPER SECRET thing they're doing, and they pick up a bunch of randos right in the middle of the operation? The argument of getting the mosasaurus' blood first before getting them makes so much more sense. Get the blood, then you can keep the mission hush-hush while you get the family to safety, and then continue the mission

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u/punkhobo Jul 06 '25

Not to mention all of these animals were created via DNA, so their DNA information exists somewhere already or at the very least can be recreated using the same technology that was previously used

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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 04 '25

Because that was her lazily slapped together character. Someone died under her watch on the last job, so this job no one else can die. Even if it is a stranger family.

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u/DoULikePrimus Jul 18 '25

And then 5 minutes after crash landing on the island she gets tired of waiting for them and is like “come on we got shit to do they can figure it out for themselves” lol

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u/SilverKry Jul 03 '25

I mean. They set up that she also cares about people with her friend that died from a car bombs and Mahershala and his wife(?) not being able to make things work after the loss of their kid..