Movie Review - Jurassic World: Rebirth

Director: Gareth Edwards
Genre: Adventure/ Action/ Science Fiction
Runtime: 133 minutes
Year: 2025
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend
 
Description: An expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
 
Review: It’s hardly a surprise that another Jurassic World movie is hitting theaters. Although the trilogy that began in 2015 became increasingly criticized as the movies progressed, those films still managed to earn billions.  

This new installment is set on an yet another island with a lot of dinosaurs. Scientists of Jurassic World experimented with creating new, mutated dinosaurs. Apparently, a Tyrannosaurus Rex is no longer interesting enough for the general public, so different species of dinosaurs were created. It’s therefore up to the characters in “Jurassic World: Rebirth” to collect the blood of three of the largest dinosaurs still roaming the planet.

This setup is a great excuse to bring a whole lot of different dinosaurs back to the big screen, but is also manages to surprise us with the human characters we follow. Doctor Henry Loomis, for example, is a nice mix of Alan Grant’s love for dinosaurs and Ian Malcolm’s view of the place of humans alongside the animals. Both Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali give their, basically fairly simple, mercenary characters a deeper layer, making it easy to empathize with them. I didn’t really care much about the family in this group though. Even though they are part of one of the coolest scenes in the movie, starring good old T-Rex, I didn’t care about them as much as the original group. When they were clearly added to the story for that specific reason.

The films offers new things, but it does still mostly feel like a repeat exercise. There are many moments that step back in familiar territory, scenes that feel the same as ones we’ve seen in the others movies. But then just slightly different. The most clear example is a scene that strongly resembles the iconic kitchen scene in “Jurassic Park”.

Reviews aren’t nice, but I believe that it’s invalid. People are expecting that it could top or just even be close to the original masterpiece from Steven Spielberg. “Jurassic Park” had so much more to it and is a timeless film. And to be honest, it will never get topped. Thus people should stop expected that. For what it is, “Jurassic World: Rebirth” is good looking, entertaining, adventure film, the perfect popcorn flick. And I’m a little biased, because I have loved everything in this franchise, because I love dinosaurs. I enjoyed it and liked it, you can’t change my mind!

Rating: 3,5/ 5