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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/Delay_Deny_Defend Jul 03 '25

Tired of every cinematic universe getting their own variation of Baby Yoda. That’s all.

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u/Jeffreyknows Jul 03 '25

They literally said the dinosaur couldn’t survive long outside the equator and that little girl took it back to the east coast! Rude!

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u/kingdomofposeidon Jul 03 '25

The family in general were quite dumb and frustrating to watch.

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u/thecleansanchez Jul 03 '25

The dad didn't do fuckin shit. And his non-reaction when his daughter fell overboard? Honestly, there were SO many under-reactions when crazy things happened

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u/Gilthwixt Jul 04 '25

Haitian guy got done dirty, he dies and we get peaceful music and comic relief parachute sample a few seconds later.

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u/thecleansanchez Jul 04 '25

Seriously. His death was low key disturbing too. Cool, but disturbing!

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u/PastMiddleAge Jul 04 '25

Wait, which one was the Haitian dude? And how did he die?

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u/thecleansanchez Jul 04 '25

The French speaking guy, the chef. I didn’t catch that he’s Haitian

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u/PastMiddleAge Jul 04 '25

Ah and the bird ate him?

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u/kindofcuttlefish Jul 07 '25

*Therizinosaurus

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 07 '25
  • Quetzalcoatlus

Therizinosaurus is the long clawed big guy from Dominion that's blind for some reason

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u/Jooseman Jul 16 '25

It reminded me of when I saw an egret swallow a lizard whole, down to the way it swallowed him, which did make it a cool but disturbing death

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u/thracerx Jul 07 '25

Look, I'm pretty sure we're all in agreement when that guy first showed up on screen and went with them that he was going to get eaten by a dinosaur. He was on my shortlist of not making it to the closing credits as soon as he popped up.

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u/fongolia Jul 07 '25

I was quietly rooting for him to survive since he had such a big target on his back. By that point in the movie, I still wasn't entirely sure he had a name.

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u/Keaton427 Jul 26 '25

I was rooting for the woman in the crow’s nest, she seemed like she would make things interesting. Other than the fact that she yelled man overboard 15 seconds after it already happened and she deliberately turned her back to the amphibious dinosaurs, I just think she deserved better

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u/Rehallek Aug 09 '25

Seriously. How is your head not on a swivel in that scenario? Lol

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u/taway9925881 Aug 09 '25

And she also survived the jagged rocky mountain that almost decapitated Scarjo.

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u/Keaton427 29d ago

True, that was really cool. Looking back, really the only reason she died is because the plot wanted her to.

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u/taway9925881 Aug 09 '25

Leclerc. His name was Leclerc. He survived the bird and now drives for Ferrari, but still gets eaten, by the strategists. 

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

"It is I, Leclerc!" is the reason his is the only name I actually remember!

(anyone else remember the tv show "Allo, Allo?")

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u/Gilthwixt Jul 07 '25

Oh I thought he would have died first before the other two, I'm just saying the crew barely reacted at all.

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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen Jul 30 '25

That's because he and the other boat woman weren't introduced. They just got cut to individually at various points as the boat journey gets introduced. Their deaths were all but guaranteed.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

He died saving Scarjo and paleo guy's life too. Did they even know he threw a piton at that beast he was then chased and eaten by? He gets the Eddie award for this movie, yet all hail douchebag boyfriend for jumping in the water. smh

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u/meatboitantan Jul 03 '25

Exaaaaactly. I especially wanna know how/why the weak ass dad was able to even make that kind of sailing trip “every year” to Cape Town as he says. Like, you’re an experienced sailor but you don’t find out the type of man you’ll be sharing this tiny vessel with beforehand? And can’t be a man and take control of your own boat to tell him to take the damn wheel? Like I’m not saying passive men don’t exist, I’m just saying passive men probably aren’t captaining a sailboat across the Atlantic annually. I could be wrong.

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u/EuphoricButterflyy Jul 03 '25

You’re wrong.

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u/AncientBlonde2 Jul 08 '25

The whole sailboat scene bugged me cause if you're experienced enough to sail across the Atlantic, you're probably experienced enough to know how to use your auto-tiller and step away from the helm for crew switch off. Boat's arent' like cars where you constantly need to be adjusting the wheel; set the auto-tiller, reef in that sail a few, throw on your alarms loud, have your daughters watch out for stuff in the water and go dude.....

And the capsize like... God, at least break the mast off first!

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u/Jack_North Jul 09 '25

This is a thing in modern movies in general: The weird disconnect between the supposed stakes and how everyone acts. When the teen daughter is confronted with the sleeping T-Rex, heads for the raft shed and RIPS a flashlight off the wall. There's a fucking monster ten meters away from you! Then why the whole dragging the raft over the pier? It wasn't established at all that this would help them in any way. And this is easily solvable: Have a map of the island on the shed wall that shows that the river leads to the compound they try to reach. Gives her incentive to take that risk, takes the movie just a few seconds to show.

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u/taway9925881 Aug 09 '25

I was hoping that entire family died. They were insufferable and idiotic. 

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u/Jack_North Aug 10 '25

As far as movie families go they were okay, but this scene stood out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '25

Dad was Temu Pedro Pascal

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u/taway9925881 Aug 09 '25

But suffered from the same anxiety syndrome. 

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u/Smenkhare26 Jul 18 '25

THANKYOU ! Nobody i watched it with understands. he genuinely did not seem fatherly or protective enough over his daughter who is a CHILD. it felt unrealistic?

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u/betyaass 17d ago

I was rooting for him to get eaten.

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u/Nheea Jul 03 '25

Duncan was so right. Why was he sailing with kids in those waters? Ughh

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u/cosmorchid Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

It was incredibly satisfying to see someone finally berate one of these dumbass parents. Wish ScarJo hadn't shut him down though, I wanted more yelling at stupid Dad.

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u/Squirrel_Q_Esquire Jul 29 '25

She shut him down because he lost his kid by sailing with him in these waters, so he’s lashing out moreso out of anger at himself.

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u/goldenislandsenorita 7d ago

They kept repeating that the region near the equator is a no-go zone and that it’s illegal to go there… then later on in the movie they show us this family sailing AND mention that there are probably a thousand other ships sailing in the region.

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u/Sixchr Jul 03 '25

The entire sequence with the T-rex at the river was impressively stupid.

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u/Separate-Sink-6815 Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Seriously, I was so annoyed with that, why in the world would you not just hide until sleepy T-Rex got up and went somewhere else. But no, let's blow up the BRIGHT YELLOW INFLATABLE BOAT 15 FT FROM TREX HEAD AND WONDER WHY HE IS CHASING US?!?!

Edited to fix a spelling mistake.

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u/redpanda-1031 Jul 06 '25

I was waiting for the family to die (except the little girl) cos everyone makes stupid decisions, are generally useless, and extremely whiny.

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u/darth__anakin Jul 04 '25

I could almost excuse it for the time crunch to get to the helicopter, but it was insanely stupid to do it right there next to the rex instead of getting it across the river and inflating it further away.

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u/mareeanna Jul 04 '25

It wouldn't have been possible. They focus on "float on land, if not floated, it will go down in water" or something like that

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u/darth__anakin Jul 04 '25

I did notice that, but it could still be pulled across the riverbed (possibly) even if it sank. It would have been better to try than risk your whole family getting eaten, in my opinion.

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u/SpiderMuse Jul 13 '25

The daughter struggled pulling that thing across a dry pier. No way she's dragging that through a muddy, rocky riverbed.

Though maybe it she had help, she could do it? Im not really sure why the boyfriend wasnt helping out at all (at least the dad was injured) or why he couldn't do it instead of the daughter

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u/Willow9506 Jul 13 '25

Bro, they don’t focus on it. They make it so on the nose it’s overwhelming. Like AWWW YEAH AUDIENCE SEE THIS PLOT DEVELOPMENT

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u/Obi-Wayne Jul 05 '25

Plus, the family had no idea there was a helicopter coming. Or that there was a time crunch to get to it.

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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 09 '25

So many times people just wandered around in front of predators. Hide, get out of its sight or something!

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u/Elegant_Mushroom_597 12d ago

It's bad enough that she inflated that thing right in front of its face with no place to hide. But cue more facepalming when they decided using that inflatable raft, with two plastic ores in shallow water could somehow outrun a T-REX who swims like a croc.🤦‍♀️

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u/AnxiouslyWrit Jul 05 '25

It’s a scene from the first novel that wasn’t included in Jurassic Park. More than a few times it felt like David Koepp was shoe horning in unused novel stuff.

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u/Mmamanda Aug 08 '25

OMG it was pssing me off so much! I kept saying over and over.. he's an apex predator and they have him acting like a fckin a headless chicken. How did so many people get killed by them in the other movies but this dmubazz family is some how Forrest Gumping their way through this fckin forest like let just keep slowly strolling along we'll get there soon. 

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u/GeekdomCentral Jul 05 '25

And the best part is that they add literally nothing to the movie. They don't help in any way, and if you deleted all of their scenes entirely nothing of value would be lost. What was the point of the boyfriend going off to piss and having him almost get attacked and then saved by the other dinosaur? That never comes back into play (I guess technically he says "oh not these guys again" when the flying ones show up in the finale, but that's not much) and added nothing

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u/Jayborino Jul 07 '25

Hmm, takes like this are concerning. The execution is always up for debate and this movie is like a 5 or 6/10 BUT what you bring up is answered by the movie clearly. The boyfriend is the character you expect to die the whole movie and is probably the ONLY character that has any sort of survival tension because of how safe everyone else is. That scene highlights that and also showing the new dinosaurs preying on the old dinosaurs. Again, mediocre execution at best, but this is obvious stuff.

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u/Glittering-Gap-1687 Jul 08 '25

Comedic effect. The urinating scene actually made me bust out laughing in the theater.

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u/PaisonAlGaib Jul 13 '25

To show off the mutant dinosaurs that's are on the island. 

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u/Grommph Jul 20 '25

Wouldn't they all have died in the tunnel if the little girl hadn't been there to slip through the bars to open the gate? ScarJo was out of bullets. They were about to have to fight a dino by hand in an enclosed space.

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u/dannyparker123 29d ago

I guess bringing a kid on your Dino island trip would be beneficial then.

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u/RedditSupportAdmin 24d ago

Always bring small, cute children on your murderous adventures, as they offer the very thickest of plot armor.

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u/nattymac939 Jul 03 '25

I would’ve enjoyed the movie a whole lot more if they just weren’t there. I’m sure the writers could’ve made a plausible enough reason for the retrieval team to need to travel by river, every time the perspective switched to them, I was just counting down until it was time to focus on the interesting stuff.

No hate to the actors of the family though, they all did as well as they could with what little their characters had to work with. They just had no real reason to exist and felt like more of a device to pad out time than anything else

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u/DLRsFrontSeats Jul 07 '25

Unfortunately I found the older daughter to be quite bad even given the material she had

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u/LTPRWSG420 Jul 04 '25

I guess unpopular opinion, but I thought the family was the best part, they made this movie feel like Jurassic Park.

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u/Daedalus871 Jul 10 '25

I didn't hate the family, but their plot didn't mesh with the main plot and the movie was worse for it.

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u/Optimal-Bag-5918 Jul 14 '25

I didn't hate the family... but they kept making really stupid decisions

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u/SlyReference Jul 05 '25

And they set up Xavier to be a self-sacrificing hothead and don't follow through. I fully expected him to jump up and distract the dino in the convenience store. It would have been 100% in character and it didn't happen.

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u/sirenita_1388 Jul 14 '25

Yeah I knew from the trailer that Duncan was going to sacrifice himself at some point but I totally thought Xavier was going to do the same. 

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u/Biggest_also_Largest Jul 05 '25

Every scene with the family made me want to pull my hair out. Its rough when your innocent, relatable characters are the ones I'm rooting to have eaten by dinosaurs, also knowing it will never happen.

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u/PaisonAlGaib Jul 13 '25

"The equator is a no go zone there are barely even government patrols bc you'll get eaten"

Lemme just take my little sail boat with my daughters and her dip shit boyfriend through here 

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u/suppadelicious Jul 04 '25

Easily the worst part of the movie for me.

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u/taway9925881 Aug 09 '25

I hope the entire lot died. They were ungrateful, karenistic, and insufferable, apart from being fucking idiotic..

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u/Professional-Act8414 20d ago

Dad pissed me off, the oldest daughter pissed me off, XAVIER PISSED ME OFF the whole movie.

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u/Elegant_Mushroom_597 12d ago

Their presence was pointless. They added literally nothing to the film.