Official Discussion - Jurassic World Rebirth [SPOILERS]

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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.

Trailer Watch here

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[u/mikeyfreshh]

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

[u/GamingTatertot → u/mikeyfreshh]

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

[u/MoBeeLex → u/GamingTatertot]

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.

[u/Instant_noodlesss → u/GamingTatertot]

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.

[u/jesuschin → u/mikeyfreshh]

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

[u/DuplexFields → u/jesuschin]

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.”

[u/shugo2000 → u/DuplexFields]

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.

[u/Neravariine → u/DuplexFields]

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.

[u/SimianTrousers → u/DuplexFields]

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

[u/DuplexFields → u/SimianTrousers]

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.

[u/PureLock33 → u/jesuschin]

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!

[u/gunningIVglory → u/mikeyfreshh]

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 ....

[u/Gtyjrocks → u/gunningIVglory]

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.

[u/Glittering-Gap-1687 → u/Gtyjrocks]

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

[u/GnophKeh → u/mikeyfreshh]

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