'Jurassic World Rebirth' A Review

Jurassic World Rebirth is a scifi action movie, the 7th in the Jurassic Park series. Dinosaurs as amusement park fodder have fallen out of fashion and have been dying off due to the modern incompatible climate. There are only survivors around the equator on isolated quarantined islands. A greedy pharmaceutical exec Martin(Rupert Friend) puts together a team- Zora(Scarlett Johansson), Duncan(Mahershala Ali), and Henry(Jonathan Bailey) to go in an extract DNA to fabricate a heart disease cure all. Sound derivative and overly complicated? Well there's also a family, with their own set of contrived back stories, sailing across the Atlantic on a self-made sail boat that gets attacked and joins up with the mercenary crew.

Johansson does what she can with her incongruous and clunky character but fails to bring much interest or life to it. Ali fairs better and skates mostly on his natural boundless charisma, it helps he's not incumbered with as much nonsensical backstory as Johansson's character. The rest of the cast range from mediocre to flat. Friend and Bailey continue Hollywood's increasing penchant for casting C-list brits to save on payroll and get what they pay for- boring performances and in the case of Bailey a terrible American accent.

Visually the film is at least compelling to look at and the score is effective but the creature design kinda misses the point. Dinosaurs are enough, cross-species splicing monsters turn this from Jurassic Park to kaiju territory. The problems though begins and ends with the script, kind of bizarre given screenwriter David Koepp wrote both this and one of 2025's best Black Bag. Although it isn't as craven, dumb, or ineffectual as the Jurassic World trilogy it misunderstands why Jurassic Park was a success and why people are still interested. It's too convoluted, too shallow, and too route to be anything other than a thin summer blockbuster destined to be forgotten after everyone streams it in six months while they fold laundry.

A vapid reheat of a beloved franchise driven into the ground by avarice.

Currently in theaters.

Don't See It.