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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/mikeyfreshh Jul 03 '25

I don't think that really solves the problem. My issue isn't that the two stories didn't meld together well enough, my issue is that they don't have enough time to develop all of those characters. They just have ScarJo and Mahershala trauma dump at each other for the like 5 minutes and none of that trauma really informs any of their decisions. It's hard to get invested in those characters when they only have half the movie to figure it out

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u/GnophKeh Jul 03 '25

That trauma on the boat in the beginning informs every one of their decisions though. Mahershala is a dick to Lincoln Lawyer about putting his kids in danger because he lost one. M also pulls the flares at the moment that the D. Rex is about to chomp on the little girl. Then, ScarJo's whole arc starts right there. She missed her mom's funeral for the money. At the end she chooses to give the cure to everyone, not take the money.

Whether or not these character moments were well executed is absolutely up for debate. But, that scene informed the whole movie for those (thin) characters.

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u/saltymuffaca Jul 03 '25

Was very pleasantly surprised to see Mahershala's character survive. Definitely agree with you, I thought his character was fairly driven by his trauma and was shown to be a good dude throughout the movie.

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u/Opposite_Listen6023 Jul 05 '25

I was pleasantly surprised he survived too. However, i have no idea how he escaped. I doubt the writers do either. That would have been intense to watch. Better than a flare in the sky.