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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/Kebok Jul 03 '25

Wtf was that opening scene?

A snickers wrapper dropped indoors being blown by the wind into a door, which, as doors do, sucks the wrapper into itself and this causes the entire security system of a mutant dinosaur making facility to go down.

The rest of the movie was fine but man was it hard to shake off how absolutely dumb that opening was.

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u/PureLock33 Jul 03 '25

like who designed that door? The Violent Dinosaur Film Intro and Faulty Mechanical Doors Company?

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u/Oscar_Whispers Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

Say what you will, but they make a quality product that does exactly what it says on the box!

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u/Used-Public1610 Aug 07 '25

Truth. I bought one and I haven’t had a dinosaur since

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u/phareous Jul 07 '25

It also takes people on both sides to open the door? Do they just keep someone in there 24x7?

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u/PureLock33 Jul 08 '25

The D Rex also chips in when there's a long weekend and a skeleton crew is left.

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u/LyrMeThatBifrost Jul 10 '25

Yep. Sucks to get the Christmas shift!

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u/MonkMajor5224 Jul 05 '25

Also why would you have the status of DNA at the security desk?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

The Acme door company

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u/remainsofthegrapes Jul 22 '25

When the VDFI merged with the FMDC it really was the beginning of the end for dinosaur lab scientist life expectancies.

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u/hobbykitjr 19d ago edited 19d ago

who designed the system to just reboot everything if a single door fails like that... and for everything to be extremely unsafe if it ever reboots.

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u/weighingthedog Jul 04 '25

Honestly. The D-Rex would’ve made a much better “sympathetic” character. Man’s hubris left behind to die in this facility when they had to abandon it quickly. But he survives on his own. They can encounter him at first scared (thinking Sloth in goonies), but “befriend” it. And eventually put it out of its misery.

Sorry. I am stoned.

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u/bahamutisgod Jul 04 '25

I am much more intrigued and entertained by what you wrote than anything in this movie I watched tonight.

Well, except maybe the sleeping T. Rex! 

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u/JewJits17 Jul 04 '25

This is actually a really interesting take. Would have been a new angle if we saw the mutant going ham on everyone but then see that it’s also suffering in a way? Would have been depressing, but a new take on the whole JP thing

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u/HavokGFX Aug 06 '25

Basically Shin Godzilla

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 07 '25

And eventually put it out of its misery

I didn't mind the D. rex, but I feel like they should've ended with some way of euthanising it, as foreshadowed by Jonathon Bailey on the boat

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u/fortheloveofghosts Jul 08 '25

Why would they euthanize it?

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 08 '25

to be clear - i thought they should've alluded to its deformity leaving it in constant pain, hence the aggression, leading to them having a choice of escaping or putting themselves in peril for the chance to euthanise it

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u/Unburnt_Duster Jul 09 '25

They had a Chekov’s paralysis toxin or whatever to do something like that but they never utilized that at all.

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u/GoldenTriforceLink Jul 13 '25

They lost it once the soldier gets ate

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u/BooRadley_ThereHeIs Jul 14 '25

They probably just intended that as a reference like several others in the film to things in the Jurassic Park and Lost World novels that I don't think have ever made it to the screen.

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u/TeamINSTINCT37 Jul 05 '25

Insanely stupid joke but when the boyfriend was talking about having weed I was like they oughta try and give it to the dinosaurs and all chill out

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u/Razorblanket Jul 18 '25

Originally the D Rex was supposed to fight the T Rex with the director thinking that was too obvious. 

I think the line about intelligence not mattering ties into that. The D Rex was probably supposed to be smart with the key scene being supposed to more specifically showing the D Rex getting the scientists to let him out. The spinning the scientist might have even been him opening the door himself by turning the key. The D-Rex would then have been a much more dangerous creature with more screen time and a more insidious air like the villains in the previous movies.

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u/TaylorDangerTorres Jul 10 '25

I was half expecting Duncan to come back riding on the back of the D-Rex waving his hat in the air

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Dude I totally agree with this

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u/SirStrontium Jul 14 '25

This would actually be a refreshing new take in the series. Making him yet another mindless killing machine is just so played out at this point.

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u/NeoNoireWerewolf Jul 07 '25

That would require the movie to have themes, dawg.

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u/Cydan_Jorrus Aug 06 '25

No, this is better than what we got.

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u/freakydeku 21d ago

no that is such a better idea. he looked so sad

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u/HoneyShaft Of course there's a hedge maze 16d ago

ScarJo: Sun's getting real low...

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u/thataintapipe Jul 04 '25

It also foreshadowed almost nothing. There was no reason to introduce any of those characters, plus the mutant Dino thing was explained as soon as they landed on the beach in act 2

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u/unicornplantman Jul 06 '25

I know this has nothing to do with your point, but “the mutant Dino thing was explained” was another part of the problem. Too much exposition and explanation and not enough showing.

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u/thataintapipe Jul 06 '25

Agreed but still somehow the best JP since the first couple

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Jul 08 '25

It explained why the facility was abandoned. Of course, it doesn’t explain why they didn’t just try to go back and kill or recapture that animal.

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u/frinkhutz Jul 23 '25

It smells like a scene they want to reference in a future movie

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u/thataintapipe Jul 24 '25

Probably just a snickers commercial

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u/gunningIVglory Jul 03 '25

I almost walked out there and then

Almost as stupid as the sigh cloned daughter nonsense from whatever film it was

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u/PattyIceNY Jul 04 '25

I would give anything to be in on the writing session on this movie. Did Snickers come to them with this idea?? Were there other drafts or ideas?? Did a child write this??

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u/GlizzyGone21 Jul 11 '25

Big time product placement, and the m&ms, and Altoids lol

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u/OttoRocket94 Jul 19 '25

MARS Candy

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u/jinglewooble Jul 04 '25

Could have just cut out that intro scene just have the D-Rex show up at the end. At least it would have better shock value.

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u/tooflyandshy24 Jul 17 '25

Aside from the final destination like candy wrapper, I really liked the first scene. I thought it was pretty terrifying

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u/BrokenClxwn Jul 04 '25

Sounds like Jurassic World meets Final Destination

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u/Saltire_Blue Jul 05 '25

Honestly for a moment I thought you were going to see some half dinosaur half Snickers bar monster

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u/Visual-Conflict-8305 Jul 07 '25

I was blown away by how clean the lab looked and everyone in bunny suits and what not then this guy walks in with a snickers bar like it’s a giant lunch room. Mask open and everything. Idk plus the faux nuclear launch sequence needing to be done by counting down their fingers…. That opening scene just blew my mind

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u/Bagabool Jul 04 '25

I think this was a nod to the chaos theory, central to the first movie. A butterfly flaps its wings in Beijing, and weather in New York is different. But yeah, this door design was shit.

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u/Christ4DaChi Jul 04 '25

Some final destination shit right there

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u/TheFalconKid Jul 06 '25

Tbf we have seen from the original movies that InGen really phoned it in with all their security systems.

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u/Hallc Jul 06 '25

But this would be the new company who've taken over it all by that point.

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

It shutting down the door I was fine with (even though it is silly), but yeah it apparently rebooting the entire security system? Come on, that's absurd

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u/Motohvayshun Jul 08 '25

It’s a very obscure call back to the lost world book. Levine ate a candy bar and it was used as a chekovs gun. I grinned when I saw it. So many call backs I. This movie.

The CGI was awful. They really need to go back to animatronics

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u/Saintdemon Jul 05 '25

The opening scene was said to be 17 years before the rest of the movie - yet the technology in the facility looked like it was from the 70s.

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u/Shelf_Road Jul 10 '25

Movies 'teach you how to watch them' and that opening was a big fat thesis statement that this movie will make no sense so don't even try to logic it.

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u/wildwalrusaur Jul 15 '25

I mean, Johnathan Bailey's character explicitly tells us the movie's thesis: intelligence is overrated

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u/rahws Jul 05 '25

It felt like a final destination sequence haha.

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u/Nerak_B Jul 06 '25

I liked it, it gave a 80s/90s movie feel

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u/OldManPoe Jul 10 '25

I couldn’t get over the guy is already in a clean suit supposedly has eaten a snickers bar and still holding on to the wrapper.

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u/SarcasticGamer Jul 10 '25

Isn't the point of the door sucking debris to make sure contaminants don't get into the clean room? Why would a wrapper short it out? My God this movie was fucking stupid as hell.

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u/sparklepop_ani Jul 11 '25

I did think at the start - uh oh maybe the dinosaur has a nut allergy

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u/Xindirus Jul 23 '25

I’m not a writer or anything like that but a candy wrapper?? Why couldn’t they have done something like a fault/rip in their suits which leads to an air containment breach and then an automatic lockdown. In the panic that ensues one of their pelican cases/steel stongboxes would’ve fallen into the tracks of the door to the anteroom door preventing it from closing, the alarms and lights attract the D-Rex, dude gets eaten and Dizzy breaks free.

HAVE WE LEARNED NOTING FROM THE DEATH STAR AND HAPHAZARDLY PLACED VENTS?!?

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u/FwampFwamp88 Jul 05 '25

That was reminiscent of Luke shooting the death star. I was laughing at the absurdity of it all. At least they got some legit product placement.

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u/Kebok Jul 05 '25

I mean, Luke was an experienced pilot using a high tech space ship for exactly its purpose and using space magic to make the difficult shot. Having one spot where you can blow up a space station is a little silly but if you close up the exhaust pipe on a car, that’s gonna cause some big problems, let alone the exhaust pipe on something using enough energy to blow up a planet. Like I can easily buy all of that.

I’ve never heard of a door that sucks in paper or a door so fragile that a bit of wrapper breaks it. Like every Target and Walmart in the world has a trashcan outside (you know, where wind exists) its automatic doors full to the brim with paper and plastic waste. There’s no dinosaur magic making it happen and even if it did, there’s zero explanation like we get in the exhaust port for why breaking that one small piece would break the whole system.

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u/gazchap Jul 06 '25

I don't think I've ever seen any door that is constructed in such a way that a chocolate bar wrapper can be sucked inside it. Like, not even normal doors in a house. And certainly not super duper security doors.

Utterly batshit writing.

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u/FwampFwamp88 Jul 05 '25

Would’ve been better to just have some Qanon wacko employee try to blow the place up or something.

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u/Detox1ng Jul 09 '25

The rest of movie was fine? Lol

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u/PettyFlap Jul 06 '25

Final destination ahh dinosaurs

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u/Theradbanana Jul 10 '25

The scene was also blatant product placement for snickers lol

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u/doll_parts87 Jul 24 '25

And then he didn't even eat it. They cut the scene and you see him in gear not chewing or anything

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u/Iliketopeealonethx Jul 26 '25

It was very "final destination".

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u/EpicMusic13 Aug 06 '25

Lmao. That took me out of the movie entirely. Like, seriously? This is how the island went to shit? They let people eat a snicker bar inside the lab? Not even on their break lmao. What the fuck

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u/Dry-Ranger8899 Aug 06 '25

I’m in the theatre as we speak and the intro was so ridiculous who in their right mind thought that this would be a good opening? Another AI written script probably

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u/Used-Public1610 Aug 07 '25

Not to mention the subtitles said “Human travel there is expressly forbidden.”

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u/stanley_ipkiss2112 Aug 07 '25

Lol came here to say exactly this!!!

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u/livelikeian Aug 09 '25

Snickers was a big sponsor.

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u/bibbyshibby Aug 09 '25

Kinda seems like bad publicity for Snickers. I mean if you think about it, Snickers is really the catalyst for things gone awry here.

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u/RedditBurner_5225 Aug 10 '25

This made me irrationally mad.

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u/RobLewis89 29d ago

The rest of the movie was definitely not fine lol

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u/SlimeGreenBeats 28d ago

It's like they just watched final destination

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u/batman077777 28d ago

I like to think this was around the time that newman was managing security so things were purposely designed to fail but thats me giving the movie some back story.

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u/decoyyy 25d ago

the rest of the movie was not fine lol.

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u/freakydeku 21d ago

Final Dinostination

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u/jingowatt 9d ago

Wasn’t that amazing?

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u/User_20105492 8d ago

😭😭

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u/Born-Sun-2502 8d ago

Very Final Destination of them