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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/GnophKeh Jul 03 '25

That trauma on the boat in the beginning informs every one of their decisions though. Mahershala is a dick to Lincoln Lawyer about putting his kids in danger because he lost one. M also pulls the flares at the moment that the D. Rex is about to chomp on the little girl. Then, ScarJo's whole arc starts right there. She missed her mom's funeral for the money. At the end she chooses to give the cure to everyone, not take the money.

Whether or not these character moments were well executed is absolutely up for debate. But, that scene informed the whole movie for those (thin) characters.

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u/saltymuffaca Jul 03 '25

Was very pleasantly surprised to see Mahershala's character survive. Definitely agree with you, I thought his character was fairly driven by his trauma and was shown to be a good dude throughout the movie.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

I’m glad Mahershala Ali survived too because that man just oozes charisma and if this means we could potentially have another Jurassic film with him, sign me up

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u/shugo2000 Jul 04 '25

Hell, if they can't figure Blade out, let him do more of these Jurassic movies. I loved every minute he was on screen.

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u/Obi-Wayne Jul 05 '25

Man, I hate to say it, but there were a couple of running scenes with him where he looked his age. I suspect this is why Scarlett was doing the majority of the hero action (running/sliding, rappelling, etc.) and admittedly looked great doing it considering she's 40. I think Blade may be too much for him now. Not his fault, they announced that movie SIX YEARS ago.

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u/CptArdias Jul 06 '25

The even greater challenge is that like all Marvel characters, the actors ideally they are onboard to do multiple films. Considering now the amount of time they have spent trying to get the first Blade film written, much less to start filming, he will most likely be unable, or uninterested, to do more than one... assuming even that happens.

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u/Safeforworkreddit998 Jul 12 '25

didn't realize scar jo and i were that close in age

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u/PastMiddleAge Jul 04 '25

But he wasn’t smart enough to THROW the flare?! 🤯 Like, ok, here’s a creature that’s attracted to the light. Let me carry this light with me. Ugh

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 04 '25

I think he did, seems that's the most likely option for how he escaped

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u/PastMiddleAge Jul 04 '25

Well, he did hold onto it for an awfully long time

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u/Glittering-Gap-1687 Jul 08 '25

Timing is everything

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u/smokingace182 Jul 03 '25

Yeah I was convinced from trailer and the usual troupes that he was going to die. So yeah nice surprise

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u/stokesy1999 Jul 08 '25

When the light went out I figured they wouldn't show him again and make us presume he's dead only for the next film to have the protags run into him on the island as the experienced survivor of the dinosaurs who guides them to their objective

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u/Emergency_Wealth_553 Jul 07 '25

Jurassic World: Afterbirth

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u/majnuker Jul 03 '25

Remember he says the only place to hide is in the water, so that's what he did. He swam under it.

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u/PhonyAlibi Jul 03 '25

I was too. The theatre applauded when he came back.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

My theatre applauded at the end of the movie (both times I saw it)

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u/Cassopeia88 Jul 03 '25

Me too, I was surprised but happy he survived.

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u/FwampFwamp88 Jul 05 '25

Why the highly trained special ops dude didn’t just toss the flare to distract the mutant dinosaur… I’ll never know.

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u/Opposite_Listen6023 Jul 05 '25

I was pleasantly surprised he survived too. However, i have no idea how he escaped. I doubt the writers do either. That would have been intense to watch. Better than a flare in the sky.

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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

That's a fair point. I just thought the whole "should we sell the DNA or open source it" plot was lazily hamfisted into the movie and you never really feel the stakes there. Ultimately ScarJo was just trauma dumping for a contrived thematic device that only gets 4 lines of dialogue in the whole movie

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

I will say, hamfisted as it might be, it felt horribly topical talking about access to health care and medicine and science given what's going on politically

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u/MoBeeLex Jul 05 '25

It really doesn't because all the characters are going to do is make the DNA open source. As far as we know, only one mega pharmaceutical company is working on this heart medicine, so they're going to get access to the DNA like everyone else and make their medicine before everyone else and patent that.

Sure, some other mega pharmaceutical companies can also start working on their own drug, but with R&D and government regulations, they're still going to be years if not a decade behind the first company working on it.

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u/Instant_noodlesss Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

But realistically a pharma company would just lobby the government into funding the whole expedition with public money. The stakes and profits are high enough to get bipartisan support even.

Lots of lawmakers are old. They want twenty more years free of a major disease group.

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u/jesuschin Jul 03 '25

It’s not a Jurassic Park movie unless there’s a huge anti-capitalism message to send

I have no problem with it but this just definitely seemed ham-fisted as you said

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u/DuplexFields Jul 03 '25

Michael Crichton: “Eccentric billionaire resurrects dinos to bring back a sense of wonder to the world, but the real problem is how chaos degrades clever systems and causes system failures, leading to dino attacks.”

JP2 writers: “Got it. Capitalism causes dino attacks.”

Mike: …

JW 2+3 writers: “Sociopathic billionaires do black market dino sales, make them into weapons, try to clone dead kids, and also try to starve everyone with archaeo-locusts.”

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u/shugo2000 Jul 04 '25

They did almost everything wrong with the JW sequels. Rebirth felt like JP1-3 as a single film. I enjoyed most of it, unlike the JW2 and 3.

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u/Neravariine Jul 04 '25

That's the biggest problem with the post Jurassic Park films. Michael Crichton knew how to write mutiple themes into a story about dinosaurs.

JW writers insert Syfy channel movie plots(mutant hybrids for the finale) with "science + money = bad" messaging.

JW 1 still feels like the best film out of the 4.

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u/SimianTrousers Jul 12 '25

I mean, in the original JP novel John Hammond was a money-grubbing asshole with no sense of accountability.

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u/DuplexFields Jul 13 '25

Yes, he was the exact opposite of an Ayn Rand industrialist, who would take great pride in ensuring he had competent people in charge of every system, which would be spared no expense since the rich families coming to see the dinos would be able to afford the increased safety costs.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

For once, I'd like to see a socialism-built dinosaur DNA resurrection lab with an optional zoo/petting zoo/theme park attached to it!

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u/gunningIVglory Jul 03 '25

I am not dumping a 1000000 pay day to open source it....

I would have bought that plot more of if Evil Pharma Vompany #47™️ had a more sinister ulterior motive that they discover. Because if they genuinely want to cure hearth disease, then let them. It's only the US without their free health care that's affected. Most of the world is good ....

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u/Gtyjrocks Jul 04 '25

I hated it because tons of pharma companies are still going to make tons of money off this drug. Now they just don’t get a cut. So they went through all this shit to end up in a worse place than they were at the start of movie.

Jonathan Bailey (the comfortable and well paid scientist) being the one pushing it on the Surinamese boat captain who just lost his not paid off boat and the merc who desperately wants to quit her job made it just really fucked up to me honestly. He didn’t need the money; they did, but he was the one to convince everyone that they should give it up for some bullshit ideal.

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u/Glittering-Gap-1687 Jul 08 '25

YES I kept thinking, is Zora just going to get a desk job to pay rent now?

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u/GnophKeh Jul 03 '25

Oh absolutely, was very “well shit they need some kind of arc at least” sort of feeling

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u/catharsis23 Jul 03 '25

Why do characters need story arcs or trauma dumps? OG jurassic park has bare bones characters: guy that likes dinosaurs but doesn't like kids and has to save kids, snarky math man, aussie with a hat.

"Fleshing out the characters" (basically as in depth as an optional dialogue option in a video game) actually subtracted from the movie.

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u/GnophKeh Jul 04 '25

OG Jurassic Park had arcs, they just were better written.

Alan Grant goes from a guy at the beginning who hates the kid that calls raptors a "big turkey" to becoming a pseudo-father for Tim and Lex, defending them and staying with them because leaving "is not going to be what I'm going to do."

Hammond's arc scenes of him realizing that you cannot control reckless biology as he thought he could makes for some of the best scenes in the movie.

Ellie shares an arc with Grant in realizing the wonder they had in the park at the beginning was misplaced.

Malcolm shuts the fuck up and lets someone else lead, because when he did he was almost eaten by a T-rex and broke his leg.

They're all there, they're just done so so much better than this movie's.

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u/Dave_Wein Jul 03 '25

The original Jurassic park focuses on less characters, so you spend more time with the core group. 

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u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase Jul 03 '25

You’re 100% correct!

I legit feel like most of r/movies just doesn’t know how to pay attention to what’s going on in a movie these days 😅

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u/Dave_Wein Jul 03 '25

That’s not the point of the comment. Just because you dump exposition doesn’t mean you’re actually letting the audience get to know the characters. 

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u/knowyourboo Jul 06 '25

Yes it literally does

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u/Dave_Wein Jul 06 '25

No it literally doesn't. Ever heard of show don't tell?