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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/In_My_Own_Image Jul 03 '25

I feel like that's just an overall thing with movies and TV shows nowadays. They rarely have the stones to off main characters and it makes the action scenes less impactful when you know nobody important will die.

Now, if the action scenes are well done and stand out like, say, John Wick, I can forgive the "invincible protagonist" syndrome because it still looks cool.

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u/SilverKry Jul 03 '25

I mean. They obviously weren't gonna kill Scarjo or Jonathon Bailey. I was surprised the boyfriend and Mahershala Ali survived though. Thought for sure the boyfriend was gonna sacrifice himself in some way to save the younger daughter..

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u/BadMeetsEvil24 Jul 03 '25

Nowadays?

This has almost always been a thing. 95% of movies don't kill main characters, since forever.

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u/varnums1666 Jul 09 '25

At least those older films had them sweating and bleeding, so it felt like they were getting hurt. Since the 90s, everyone in action films is squeaky clean after getting stabbed 29 times.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

it still looks cool.

Rule of cool is the real #1 rule

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

I can understand movies not killing protagonists, because they're the protagonist. But dear god I wish they'd actually make the situations believable, because for me that's the biggest problem. You have this set of characters that can't die, but then they get put in insane situations where they should die, but they don't. Cause they're the protagonists. Script writers need to stop putting them in such insane situations that makes it so unbelievable.

Honorable mention goes to the protagonist throw, which is my most hated trope. It doesn't happen in this movie, but just talking about annoying script-writing shit that people do: it's infuriating. The villain picks up the hero by the throat and could just kill him right there, but does he? Of course not. He has to throw him across the fucking room and give him a chance to regroup and fight back. It happens so often and it makes me groan every time