Title - Jurassic World: Rebirth
Production - Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
Starring - Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, Bechir Sylvain, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Ed Skrein
Writer - David Koepp
Director - Gareth Edwards
Release - 1 July 2025
I had high hopes for this. Not sure why, though; given how all the previous Jurassic World instalments were not great and with diminishing returns.
Maybe it's Gareth Edwards, who gave us one of the best new Star Wars movie. But also this was David Koepp returning to the franchise after writing the original. So, clearly, that first movie was all Steven Spielberg.
This time Koepp decided to bring in a whole family of civilians who were just annoyingly written into the movie. They had no business being in this adventure, they didn't want to, and they detracted so much from what we the audience wanted: More dinosaur action.
But also, this time, the dinosaurs weren't really dinosaurs. They were mutated. As if dinosaurs were no longer scary enough, they had to genetically engineer something more but still a gigantic, walking carnivore.
Ed Skrein's screentime was a waste. Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey did a lot of the heavy lifting. Mahershala Ali's character should have had an opposite ending, that would have been more satisfying. But then again, the way that whole scene was written, it would have been a bit silly if he ended in the opposite way.
And Rupert Friend as the film's antagonist, wasn't really a villain. I would have agreed with his choices, and the way the family made him into a villain was not his fault.
This franchise needs to stop. Let's just go back to the simpler days of Jurassic Park. What's wrong with the T-Rex being the main villain?
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