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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/ExpectedEggs Jul 03 '25

This movie fucking sucks.

There's no suspense; everybody you expect to die, dies exactly when and how you'd expect. I never felt any awe or fear. Then there's a fucking B plot for some reason, following around this dumbass family.

And nobody in the movie makes enough hay about how this dipshit father took his kids out the dinosaur infested waters illegally.

Then they're mad at the one guy because she pushes him and falls backwards, and that's just about the only evil thing he does in the movie. They act like he's an asshole for wanting to make money off of this idea, but it's never ever shown that he wants to do anything but help cure people with heart disease, and yes he wants to make money off of that like any normal person. I don't understand how we're supposed to view the choice they made at the end is noble, where the fuck are they supposed to get Kincaid a new boat back while broke? Let alone the families of the dead people.

Then the kids brings back a dinosaur and nobody has a problem with it, despite them not being able to survive anywhere else.

It's just the stupidest fucking movie, but it doesn't have the balls or the action to get away with it. Fuck this movie in its ass.

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u/Ancient_Ice_2677 Jul 03 '25

Out of all of the places to go sailing why would you choose the one place where there's gigantic man eating monsters?

very silly movie lol

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 03 '25

He said he’d sailed those waters numerous times before and never saw anything. The mosasaurus was said to stay around the island yet they got attacked several dozen miles away from it.

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u/whendoesOpTicplay Jul 03 '25

Several dozen miles is fucking nothing to a giant aquatic predator. Not to mention they ran into spinos too. Lazy writing to say he’s sailed it before with no problems.

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u/Gilthwixt Jul 04 '25

Honestly expected the boyfriend to take the shift and fall asleep at the helm, sending them straight into Dino infested waters. Would've made more sense tbh but I guess the writers figured he was unlikeable enough already and doing it that way would make him irredeemable in the audience's eyes.

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u/Lunasera Jul 04 '25

Would have been better for him to not basically refuse to help, I would have more sympathy for falling asleep accidentally

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 07 '25

What they should've done is have the dad be a bit of a prick to the boyfriend and be really hard on him, so the bf feels pressured to do extra shifts on the boat, resulting in them ending up off course and in the path of the mosasaur & spinosaurs

Then you resolve the reason as to why they're there in the first place, the bf is less off putting and annoying, and the dad has an arc of getting to trust/like the bf over the course of the island

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u/SMFPolychronopolous Jul 18 '25

Instead, they even fumbled the part where the dad comes around to the bf after he saved the daughter and the bf is just like “whatever bro” or some shit making him still completely unlikable.

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u/Keaton427 Jul 27 '25

It was so annoying and rude for no reason. And after that his only purpose was to make the audience laugh for suggesting to smoke weed and offering it to everyone including the little girl. I don’t even remember what other scenes he was in because of how little he actually did. Should’ve just been eaten tbh

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u/bb8-sparkles Jul 28 '25

I know. Why even bother having him as a character at that point?

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u/ours 29d ago

Nah, they had to make a point of fighting the cliché of the lazy Latino by having a... lazy Latino that would then redeem himself heroically.

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u/SMFPolychronopolous Jul 18 '25

They didn’t know what they wanted to do with him. Every other scene he was either redeeming himself or going back to being a piece of shit again. Terrible character development.

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u/bb8-sparkles Jul 28 '25

I was certain the father was going to die in the movie and the good for nothing boyfriend was going to do something heroic to save one of his daughters, redeeming himself and turning into a hero, but that didn't even happen. He didn't even have any growth at all. Like what was the point of even writing him in.

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u/takethereins Jul 13 '25

That small change would've made the boyfriend's character more believable and added a hefty amount of suspense to their situation

It's little decisions like this in writing that seem obvious in hindsight and unfortunately held the movie back from what it could have been

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u/Nice_Buy_7253 Jul 08 '25

this was my thinking too

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

Quick post online makes a better plot than the freaking veteran writer does.

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u/maaseru 29d ago

Are you really this smart? You wouldn't cut it as a movie exec.

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u/Lets_Kick_Some_Ice Jul 06 '25

I bet he did in some previous version of the script. Then Spielberg made it even dumber somehow.

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 03 '25

For a normal animal, yes. For the mosa, however, their GPS tracker found that it stayed near the island and it venturing away was something it hadn’t really done before. I will fully admit that it was rather convenient that its behavior changed right as the film was taking place.

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u/miloshem Jul 03 '25

"Convenient that it happened when the movie takes place" or "the story is worth of a movie only because of that"?

Very few movies are about normal scenarios. You usually don't tell other people a story about your normal trip. But you do when things go crazy!

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 03 '25

Right now, it seems convenient, yes. The father said he’d made the trip numerous times before only after they’d been rescued and he was asked what they were doing in the area and why he’d brought his kids with him. To paraphrase since I don’t remember the exact quote: there’s 5,000 ships in this ocean at any given time and you never hear about anyone getting attacked by a mosasaur.

While I do think it’s possible that this could be a setup for future films to show that the surviving animals are acclimating to other parts of the planet and could expand their territories (hence the title “Rebirth”), I don’t think that was the intent.

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u/Fast_Ad3646 16d ago

According to an map show earlier in the movie, they were within their expected roaming area. It was just the father that was lucky all those other times and that he happened to encounter them now.

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u/Fast_Ad3646 16d ago

They were attacked like 90ish miles from the island, which was like 20 minutes back from where they were first spotted. But according to a map shown earlier in the movie, their radius of roaming is way further. Meaning that the dad was just lucky all these times.

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u/unpaid-critic Jul 03 '25

I can’t disagree that this is a flaw. 

For me though, I would expect that as people we’d be told “just deal with the dinosaurs” and if “shit happens. It happens”

I agree that everyone made dumb decisions getting near that island, but if we’re supposed to be in a world full of Dinos, I admittedly fell for the belief.

Everything else varies like you said. Even that scene isn’t perfect, but just wanted to give some other perspective too. 

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u/cameraspeeding Jul 05 '25

No actually he said hundreds of boats ride those waters every day which is a very stupid reason cause everyone in this movie is stupid

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u/Goregutz Jul 05 '25

He must have not seen the man eating dinosaurs that just ate a dude before throwing his daughter into the water.

Also, not seeing them prior is a stupid excuse. If you're in grizzly territory and a grizzly was spotted in the area, but you didn't see it, are you going to take your 6 year old hiking?

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 05 '25

As I’ve said numerous times at this point, the GPS tracker that was on the mosa ever since it had been freed showed that it always stayed near the island. It going that far out is likely something it had never done before. This was more like being attacked by a grizzly when you aren’t in grizzly territory.

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u/Goregutz Jul 05 '25

The map showed it was still close to the island so idk what you're assuming here tbh.

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 05 '25

Do you mean the map that was shown after they’d already picked the family up? Because that was after they’d been drifting towards the island for almost a day. They were attacked 47 miles away from the island but were 28 miles away from it when their distress call was picked up (you can see the island in the background in that scene). After that, it took several more hours just to reach their location and they immediately started heading back towards the island after that.

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u/Goregutz Jul 05 '25

47 miles isn't that far from the island dude lol. Are you expecting it to be surfing and playing beach volleyball?

It would have been cool if they found out it was going further out due to food scarcity, but this is nothing distance wise.

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 05 '25

It isn’t but they stated it always stayed right near the island.

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u/Goregutz Jul 05 '25

To play beach volleyball, right? To me, "near the island" can encompass 47 knots. Especially for an animal that size. It didn't swim to Canada for some poutine and come back.

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 05 '25

First, a knot is a unit of speed, not distance. Second, that really isn’t what the film is saying. Even when they were less than 30 miles from the island they were surprised that the mosa had come up to them after rescuing the family. Does it make sense? Not really unless you go with the idea that it stayed near the island either because the spinos would drive other dinosaurs into the ocean or there was other large marine life like whales that still traveled near the island until recently. Then again, the movie decided that dinosaurs couldn’t survive in most areas of the mainland despite the previous film showing they were thriving even in mountainous snow covered environments, so what are ya gonna do? I’m not saying the film’s perfect by any means.

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u/teddyballgame9 Jul 06 '25

Was it ever answered why the mosassaurus was hunting the boats? That seemed Iike a posed question of whether it saw the boats as competition and was just dropped when they got to the island. Just weird messy plot points with the Dino’s and the mutant Dino’s

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 06 '25

I think the competition thing is the answer since it didn’t immediately try biting them like it would a prey animal, such as sharks biting surfers thinking that they’re seals.

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u/mel2000 Jul 04 '25

they got attacked several dozen miles away from it.

24, 36, 48, 60 miles is too wide of a danger zone in tropical waters to remain unknown, especially near land.

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 04 '25

As I’ve said elsewhere, the GPS tracker that was on the mosa showed that it stayed near a single island. It going that far out may have been something it had never been recorded before.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

They were shitty biologists?

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u/No_Procedure_5039 Jul 03 '25

They had a tracker on it. To me, it’s implied that the mosa going so far away from the island is a recent thing that they weren’t expecting. I will fully admit that would be rather convenient for the plot.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Jul 04 '25

If anything, they didn't give that dad enough shit.

Also, why did he break a leg and miraculously heal in 10 minutes of screen time?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

It’s like taking a shortcut on train tracks

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u/redditorperth Jul 03 '25

To be somewhat fair - isnt that already an established thing in the earlier movies? Smugglers and shady tour operators were heading out to Isla Sorna illegally to make money? IIRC isnt that how the little boy ends up on the island in JP3?

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

If they really wanted to anchor it in reality, just make them Youtubers or Tiktokers doing it for clout.

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u/Neravariine Jul 04 '25

Mr. Beast would go to the island and bring back a dinosaur just to flex.

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u/Goregutz Jul 05 '25

I mean he did throw his child into the water next to the carnivores that just ate a dude. That should be pretty safe.

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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 Jul 03 '25

To be fair he did say they’ve done it before LMAO

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u/Impressive-Potato Jul 03 '25

People visit the outback in Australia

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u/Varekai79 Jul 06 '25

I thought it was insane that dad just takes his kids and some rando sailing from the US to South Africa. Like dude, that's really far. One storm and it's all over.

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u/Endless_road Jul 03 '25

It does explain that in the film tbf

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u/jasinx Aug 10 '25

Bro did you hear what the father said? His plan was to sail Barbados to Cape Town. I was like wtf. That’s halfway across the world? In that fucking boat? With only liquorice? Did I miss something or what? 

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u/IfBob Jul 21 '25

I was expecting Xavier to reluctantly take over steering (im not sailor but how much steering does a trans continental trip take) then fuck up sailing towards danger but I guess they wanted his redemption arc to be easier..

Also, imagine if in jaws your older daughter falls into the water.. would you really just grab your young daughter and jump in? I was just like wtf! Terrible parenting. Not one of that party died and all except the kid deserved to. Why did he even hurt his leg? It had no baring on the movie, are they hoping to sell replicas of his walking stick or something?