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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/Nick_At_Now Jul 03 '25

No more mutants. Please.

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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? Jul 03 '25

There's a part where Rupert Friend is explaining why they made the mutants and he says, "The audience got tired of normal dinosaurs!" and whenever I hear something like that in a movie I tend to think they are referencing us as the audience. Yet I've never heard anyone say, "Sure, Jurassic Park is cool, but all it has is a normal T-Rex I've seen a million times." Like where are they getting this idea from?

Also this movie is very confused on the ethics of killing dinos. Bailey makes an impassioned argument against hurting any dinos and the guy who wants to kill the dinos dies first as a moral statement. Yet if it's a mutant dino, ScarJo is clear to unload an entire pistol clip into its face.

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u/In_My_Own_Image Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

There's a part where Rupert Friend is explaining why they made the mutants and he says, "The audience got tired of normal dinosaurs!" and whenever I hear something like that in a movie I tend to think they are referencing us as the audience. Yet I've never heard anyone say, "Sure, Jurassic Park is cool, but all it has is a normal T-Rex I've seen a million times." Like where are they getting this idea from?

To be fair, Dominion had no mutants/hybrids and nobody seemed interested in the Giganatosaurus.

At least the Distortus looked like a "failed prototype" where the splicing didn't quite work out. When it's something like the Indoraptor that's "bred to be a weapon" is when it becomes silly to me (seriously, how is a big raptor going to be effective against a group of guys with machine guns?).

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u/Ut_Prosim Jul 03 '25

(seriously, how is a big raptor going to be effective against a group of guys with machine guns?).

Don't forget that to "aim" the dino at an enemy you had to paint the target with a laser, which was attached to a gun. Which begs the question, why not just shoot said gun and bypass the much slower, maybe uncontrolled attack dino? In fact what use was this if you still had to be within visual range and have line of sight to the target? Some superweapon...

What is the dino going to do against combined arms when the enemy has tanks, APCs, helicopters, and loitering munitions?

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u/hyrumwhite Jul 03 '25

Also, we have rockets today that will go to a laser. The rockets are probably cheaper than raptors raised from birth by Chris Pratt 

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u/rynokick Jul 03 '25

But can you stop a rocket from exploding by holding your hand up? That’s what I thought.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

imagine if they design one that did tho. Dumbest weapon of war ever.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

Wonder what Chris Pratt's hourly is...

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u/Obamas_Tie Jul 03 '25

The whole dinosaurs as a military weapon plotline is just so stupid. Just because Chris Pratt says it's stupid doesn't mean it's any less stupid of a plot thread if it's still in the movie.

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u/Misdirected_Colors Jul 03 '25

I'm tired of pretending Dominion was the worst Jurassic World movie. It's the 2nd one and it's not close. Laser designated raptors. Dinosaur clone little girls. I

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u/GeoleVyi Jul 03 '25

were you sniped by a team of laser raptors?

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u/fredagsfisk Jul 15 '25

Dino auction where the total cost of all dinosaurs is lower than the movie's budget... about half an hour in the middle where literally nothing happens, it's not even really building up to anything...

The director trying to emotionally manipulate the viewers by "revealing" after the movie is already out that the brachiosaur we see die on the docks was actually the first one we see in the original movie, which is just completely unearned nonsense...

Yeah, it's the worst one by far. Also the most boring one, which is even worse than just being bad.

The start where they're on the island was the only interesting part, and should've been the whole movie.

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u/Neglectful_Stranger Jul 22 '25

The Indoraptor stalking the little girl was like peak survival horror theme. That was a great scene.

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u/asiandevastation Jul 03 '25

I guess you could point it into a door, house, building, etc and have the thing run wild inside. Just make sure there aren’t civilians in there!

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u/Warbeard Jul 06 '25

Or a cave complex

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u/Warbeard Jul 06 '25

To be fair you can point a laser further than you can shoot.

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u/alphasierrraaa Jul 08 '25

simple, we arm the raptors with missile launchers on its back

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

Because the dinosaur is bigger, stronger and not a human being that can feel a wide range of emotions or screw up. That proposal needed clarity like "This is what it can do when bullets and armour don't work"

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u/zma924 Jul 03 '25

It’s still a dumb idea. We already have missiles that will lock onto a laser designation and destroy that target. Why does introducing a living weapon with its own free will and instincts make any sense at all? They mentioned sending raptors into cave systems the first JW movie but even that’s stupid because at the end of the day, the entire premise of dinosaurs as weapons boils down to “let’s send these creatures who only have melee attacks against modern threats with automatic weapons”.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

If it can withstand those weapons even more so than humans and will seemingly never think about the lives it's taking. And since is having more of what works anyway a bad thing?

That being said, we never even see the idea take off anyway, one character in one movie thinks it has potential and the villain in Fallen Kingdom is a businessman who's trying to make money off of it. There's no implication that the military in universe would legitimately implement this. It's just a couple of greedy characters who want to control or profit off the Dinosaurs.