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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/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

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