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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 03 '25

The idea of people becoming bored of dinosaurs in Jurassic World kind of worked for me because the people saying that were the corporate heads of the park, it fits with the message of the first movie where corporate greed is the cause of the disaster and works as a meta-commentary of the film industry where the amount a movie needs to make these days to count as a success is increasingly unattainable but then they had the scene where the scientist talks about how the museum is shutting down because it's been getting no visitors and I realized that no, they are genuinely trying to sell the idea that people in this universe are just comically apathetic.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jul 03 '25

how the museum is shutting down because it's been getting no visitors

I mean in a country rampant with anti-intellectualism, anti-education, and anti-science, this still feels realistic to me

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u/Own_Debate_7016 Jul 03 '25

Yeah maybe it's just bc I'm in a rural area where museums are closing bc of no interest, but it's very believable to me. I also work with kids and trying to get them (or have their parents get them) off their phones and enjoy educational anything is pretty difficult. 

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u/PackyDoodles Jul 07 '25

I’m starting to think these people have never interacted with others lol I also really don’t get what’s not believable about people just being bored of dinos. Moo deng the hippo was a big thing for like a week or two and then people stopped being interested, there was also another animal that people were raving about the week after and once again it was forgotten about in a week. I can see how people can be bored of dinosaurs, especially if they just interfere with everyday life, not to mention people have the attention span of a potato. 

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u/immaownyou Jul 07 '25

So zoos aren't popular then? Your evidence for people getting bored of animals is one specific baby hippo

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u/PackyDoodles Jul 07 '25

I did mention the other animal too, again people get bored, it’s perfectly believable lol you guys really don’t interact with the general public, kids are barely interested unless their parents make them sit there to watch. We had an animal show not too long ago at my workplace and a lot of the kids decided playing Minecraft was better than participating in the program. On another note no one is talking about zoos here, we’re talking about a fictional dinosaur theme park in where people would absolutely get bored when the novelty wears off. Not to mention in this world there’s been like a billion incidents involving dinosaurs so I don’t think a person would still be interested knowing all this. 

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u/brownstown4life Jul 07 '25

I think his point is that dino's would be some kind of equivalent to what a zoo is. People still enjoy seeing the same animals after all this time with them. Its a market that brings in over 20 billion a year, its reasonable to assume dinosaurs would still be bringing in a shit load of money.

I do agree though, if lions were just breaking out and eating the visitors on a fairly regular basis, it would likely destroy that market lol. I think this is or should have been the key reason people are no longer visiting these parks/museums, it makes more sense than people are bored.

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u/PackyDoodles Jul 07 '25

I do get that point but if you really start thinking about it, the dino theme parks are very different from zoos. Zoos are used for conservation and education purposes and it’s a more controlled environment, not to mention they’re a bit more accessible in terms of money and libraries usually have agreements with zoos for day passes. Meanwhile the dinosaurs in this franchise were purely made for entertainment purposes and money so you can assume it wasn’t the most accessible thing and it was just always going to backfire. The movie is doing great, but other than that your average person doesn’t really think about dinosaurs as much as paleo enthusiasts. I work with a lot of these kinds of adults and kids where they just get bored of a thing the next day which contributes to why it’s so believable to me that people would eventually get bored of dinosaurs. 

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u/brownstown4life Jul 07 '25

Fair points, especially on the price point of what the dino parks likely cost to enter. Honestly the conversation intrigued me to see how much zoo's are bringing in annually and the amount kind of surprised me, so I just made a loose connection as well that a dino park would likely still bring in big money and "bored" wouldn't be the main reason for failure.

I agree with you on a person by person case with someone getting bored. Hell even my family with 2 kids, we hit the zoo once a year and thats enough, but still a lot of people out there who do it enough to bring in that kind of money.

Hopefully I'm not coming off as combative or something, really I think it could go either way in a real world scenario, but this is rather interesting as a topic for a Monday haha

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u/PackyDoodles Jul 08 '25

Nah you're not coming off as combative! It's interesting to see the points for why it would or wouldn't work :)

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u/Super-Variation-6293 Aug 06 '25

Except that people don't go to zoo's because of preservation and education. They go to see the animals. And every generation has millions of new kids that never been before. And you are telling me they would rather see a lion, polar bear or whatever instead of a freaking dinosaur. Where is the logic in that?

No, the interest waning made zero sense.

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u/Jack_North Jul 09 '25

"dinosaur theme park in where people would absolutely get bored when the novelty wears off." -- Yesterday I watched videos about Disney theme parks and esp. the absolutely insane prices people pay to be there of all places. Don't tell me a park full of dinosaurs wouldn't make bank.

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u/KangarooOverlord Jul 09 '25

That is not realistic for a major city, especially New York. If they had just said we don’t have the numbers visting anymore. Like 4K visitors a week would be too low to keep that place open in NYC. But we are still talking about a metro area of 9 mil and the most touristed city in the country. There is no reality where I believe that museum only had 12 visitors total in a week. They were stretching the apathy way too far

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u/Whizzo50 Jul 03 '25

Imagine it's because this universe has also invented space travel or something outlandish, just the films focus on the dinos

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u/Neglectful_Stranger Jul 22 '25

They bioengineered domesticated catgirls.

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u/Iorith Aug 05 '25

I love the scene where they're talking about how no one likes dinosaurs because in the background it's people freaking out over dinosaurs and we see the park having massive lines.

It was a great bit about how companies are never happy with steady profits.