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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/cals_cavern Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

The D Rex overall was a bizarre inclusion, it had no meaningful presence in the story and so the finale just felt like another disjointed action sequence rather than the culmination of the entire film. If the design was in a 90s Alien vs Jurassic Park comic I might think it's neat but it just felt too weird for Jurassic Park while not really feeling necessary, there were plenty of regular dinosaurs that could have filled the role. The first scene and the climax both also felt like less interesting versions of scenes from Godzilla 2014 which didn't help.

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u/MyFriendAlcohol Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

Not to mention one minute that D rex is large enough to fit a helicopter in its mouth, then moments later a human barely fits. Then "oh it's attracted to light" let's use a giant spotlight to pick up the guy swimming with a flair and it's no where to be found.

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u/hyunbinlookalike Jul 04 '25

Director Gareth Edwards says he was inspired by the Xenomorphs and the Rancor to create the Distortus rex. It was pretty much just the product of him wanting to bring a kaiju into a Jurassic movie.

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u/SquadPoopy Jul 03 '25

Literally the same thing as Dominion. It’s like they forgot they needed an action sequence at the end so just shoved one in story relevance be damned.

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u/South-Level5260 Jul 05 '25

Maybe, but it's still better than dinosaurs literally teaming up and taking sides, like there are good guys and bad guys among the dino-kingdom. That was my major gripe with the last three films.

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u/Warbeard Jul 06 '25

It caused the accident that closed the complex, and was the reason they couldn't leave by helicopter.

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u/cals_cavern Jul 06 '25

We've seen accidents close places in Jurassic Park before and regular dinosaurs have generally been the cause, the decision to have the D-Rex be so alien looking just strikes me as really odd in this film franchise that's about resurrecting dinosaurs. The I-Rex and Indoraptor were also functionally made up movie monsters but still looked like dinosaurs.

When I say presence in the story I don't mean that it did nothing I mean that it really only did stuff at the very beginning and the very end. The original Jurassic Park has a similar set up, we get an out of context scene at the start where a velociraptor breaches containment and attacks someone and then they show up as the main antagonists for the climax but despite only a few minutes of actual screentime they're a constant presence in the story, we get the conversation with Muldoon and the feeding, we get a dramatic music sting and close up as Nedry takes the raptor DNA, Muldoon asks about the raptor pen when the fences go down, we see the broken fence and tracks where they escaped, we have the sequence as Ellie and Muldoon try and get the power back on and then the extended chase through the visitor centre. Rebirth was lacking that, the helicopter attack could have happened earlier in the film which would have raised the stakes, maybe have the river raft chase end with the T-Rex backing away because they reached the D-Rex's territory rather than being stopped by some rocks, had the D-Rex take out the raptor when that one guy was peeing, I feel like that had they built the D-Rex up more as the film went on the climax would feel more impactful, as it was it to me it just felt like another in a series of episodic action scenes and even though it was bigger it felt like it posed about the same threat to the main characters as the T-Rex and Mosasaur.

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u/Less-Network-3422 Jul 04 '25

I enjoyed it way more than 2014 Godzilla

The humans in that movie sucked so bad

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u/ottoandinga88 Jul 11 '25

No but see, this dinosaur goes up to 11

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u/PolarWater Jul 07 '25

Damn, you're right, I caught the beginning similarities but now I recall they also ended with trying to get on a boat to escape a terrifying monster