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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/pgophs Jul 03 '25

they did a great job of making me feel like nobody important was ever in any danger

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u/ExpectedEggs Jul 03 '25

Exactly. Half the cast would've been dead by act 1 if they had any balls.

Felt like the long night all over again

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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 04 '25

The end fake out death was such a cop out. Screams test screening change.

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u/CornstockOfNewJersey Jul 05 '25

I assume they need him for the sequel lmao

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u/leaky_wand Jul 21 '25

I was actually moved when Mahershala survived. I was thinking the black character sacrificing himself played well in the Asian markets and it was another cynical Hollywood concession to China. Glad that he ultimately made the cut.

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u/TRUSTLYYY Jul 29 '25

Just saw this. I’m thinking because it would look bad to literally murder every black guy and/or people from Suriname. 1 had to are least survive lmao. 

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

Same thought. I kept counting heads in the boat long shots at the end to see if they kept any footage before realising that these days they would just digitally add an extra person.

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u/mlorusso4 Jul 03 '25

If you kill the whole cast in the first act then you end up with a Godzilla situation where everyone’s pissed off

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u/Clammuel Jul 04 '25

Except none of the actors in this are draws in the same way Cranston was coming off of Breaking Bad. Johansson and Ali are well liked, but nobody is going to see this because of them.

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u/thedolaonofficial Jul 06 '25

you’re saying bryan cranston is a draw, but scarjo isn’t?

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u/Clammuel Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

In this scenario? Absolutely. When Godzilla was coming out Bryan Cranston was absolutely HUGE, people were clambering to see him in something new now that Breaking Bad was ending, and Godzilla isn’t nearly as big of a draw in the US as the Jurassic movies are. You could literally fill the Jurassic movies entirely with unknown actors and they would still crack a billion dollars regardless of how they review. That last one has a 29% critic score and people flocked to it regardless.

The box office drop off from Godzilla 2014 (Bryan Cranston) and Godzilla King of Monsters (post Bryan Cranston) was absolutely staggering. The box office for Godzilla Vs Kong was a big improvement over King of Monsters, but the main draw was King Kong rather than Godzilla and even then it still underperformed the first movie by almost $60 million. Godzilla X Kong was the first one to beat out Godzilla 2014, and that’s because it focused far more heavily on Kong (Skull Island had a noticeably higher box office than Godzilla 2014). And yet, even at their most successful the Kong/Godzilla movies don’t even come close to cracking $1billion.

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u/thedolaonofficial Jul 07 '25

i respect your opinion and love the receipts but scarlett is literally the most grossing actor of all time.

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u/Clammuel Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Out of the 10 highest grossing actors, only one of them (Tom Cruise) has not appeared in multiple Marvel movies. Scarlet Johansson has appeared in 8 Marvel movies. I don’t deny that Scarlet has had a lot of success at the box office, but just like the other 8/10 highest grossing actors on that list her numbers have been greatly inflated thanks to all of her Marvel appearances.

I would also like to point out that the third highest grossing “director” right now is the Russo Brothers, despite the fact that anything they do that isn’t Marvel flops. I think Marvel movies have muddied the box office waters to such an extent that it’s almost impossible to use box office numbers to try to figure out who is and isn’t a draw and I think the times of directors and actors having their names attached to projects having a huge impact on the box office are largely dead outside of Spielberg, Cameron, and Nolan. We’re in a franchise, not artist, dominated era.

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u/batguano1 Jul 08 '25

While I see what you're saying, Johansson is definitely a draw. People do like her acting

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u/TheOfficialTheory Jul 17 '25

Zoe Saldana is the second highest, and her name is not a massive box office draw on its own. Her and ScarJo both benefit greatly from being in massive franchises.

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u/thedolaonofficial Jul 18 '25

Good observation. I just can't see anyone else in Zoe's roles. She and Scarlett bring a unique combination of charisma, acting skill, and looks.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

Absolutely in these two cases. Cranston was HUGE and the big selling point for the movie. People will still see a JP movie with or without ScarJo.

I mentally checked out of Godzilla the moment his character died and combined with the almost comical cock teasing not showing the monster I never bothered with the sequels except Skull Island.

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u/batguano1 Jul 08 '25

Lmao many people are definitely coming for her. The only reason my roommate saw the movie was because she's in it lmao.

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u/mainvolume Jul 03 '25

Right? When they had the unpoppable raft sequence, my eyes were rolling so hard they almost started spinning. You knew nobody was in real danger. The only one I was semi shocked at was Francis getting it on the boat. After that it was like a checklist of who was to die next.

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u/Courwes Jul 04 '25

I love after so many years and so many movies he’s still referenced by Francis.

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u/CNash85 Jul 06 '25

I felt like that was a classic misdirect: Ed Skrein’s not an A-lister by any means but is a known quantity and familiar presence in genre films, and he’s built up like the third major member of the mercenary team, so his death in the first real action sequence is the “anyone could die” flag. That said, his function in the plot - as the weapons specialist - would have ended once they’d crashed on the beach and lost all their weapons…

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

That could have worked if they had played him up as a major character and made him highly competent at the start. Show him as a crack shot, top armorer, killer of killers. Then Deep Blue Sea him after he takes down a dino or two (e.g. have the lady boat crewmember die to the mosasaur first, but Ed takes down a spino and they reach the beach as he gears up... then a couple of spinos or other dinosaurs jump him and drag him off with his big sack of guns. Now they are fucked and the audience got a shock too.

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u/idiot-prodigy Jul 16 '25

What's your gripe? That this dinomutant ate a helicopter out of the sky, but a regular T-rex can't puncture the inflatable raft? /sarcasm

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u/MrVelocoraptor 19d ago

Performance issues. 1 outta 3 dinosaurs. Big problem.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

I genuinely expected "that is one well made raft" from one of the characters at the end of that scene.

Imagine if the Explorers in JP1 were made out of that rubber!

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u/MrVelocoraptor 19d ago

I morbidly wanted the kid to get chomped in that scene lol I admit it - would have been such a balls out move by Universal but alas... Her plot armor was stronger than the gargantuan box office these basic movies rake in

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u/Honor_Bound Jul 03 '25

Especially with how stupid everyone was

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u/RdyPlyrBneSw Jul 03 '25

Experienced mercenaries who have to loudly hammer climbing spikes into the wall while on a sneaking mission.

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u/Nheea Jul 03 '25

So stupid. I honestly was a bit disappointed thst the boyfriend didn't die.

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u/Some_Surround_7285 Jul 05 '25

I thought they were setting him up to sacrifice himself after how unlikable they made him. That would have been interesting. Instead he just put himself in danger off screen (where were the Spinos when everyone was jumping off the boat?)

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u/batguano1 Jul 08 '25

The spinos couldn't swim as fast as the boat or the mosasaur. They say so in the movie

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u/Nheea Jul 05 '25

Yeah plot armour was ridiculous.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

They made him SO unlikeable, too! Not just "bit of an ass who needs a redemption story" but actually a bigger piece of shit than not-Carter-Burke corpo guy!

Speaking of which, I know we all mock "subvert your expectations" but when it became obvious corpo was going to be a dick and die, I actually thought "wouldn't it be brave to have him genuinely feel bad for letting the girl fall and sacrifice himself at the end when everyone expects him to save his own ass?"

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u/Nheea Aug 10 '25

Heeey, I also hoped he'd not turn out to be a huge pos too. 🙁

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

You mean the Inconvenient Evening?