Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
Directed by Gareth Edwards
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.
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…since there’s a long sequence that’s basically the barrel sequence from Jaws…
The scene on the boat where she has to get close to the Mosasaurus is a highlight, and I think it was an intentional nod to Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975)…
…the Mosasaurus assault on the Delgados plays like an extended, exhilarating Jaws homage (one of a few explicit nods to Spielberg films beyond Jurassic Park).
At times Rebirth, directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One), seems to be speedrunning through the Spielberg filmography, touching on the Jurassics but also Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
This sequence with the massive reptile terrorizing both boats is phenomenal, a la JAWS.
…menacingly swimming like they’re auditioning for Jaws?
…we don’t own a Jurassic-themed Jeep…
Yes, there’s some unavoidable tropes common in all Jurassic Park films — the convenience store dino stalking and the shady corporate exec who only cares about a big payday to name a few — but Jurassic World Rebirth navigates them in a manner to keep it entertaining.
It’s obviously trying hard to replicate the wonder of Dr. Grant and Dr. Sadler’s arrival in the original Jurassic Park, but Bailey sells Loomis’ tearful reaction so well, this quieter moment immediately stands out as one of the film’s highlights.
If you loved Jurassic Park for its sense of wonder, thrilling suspense, and tactile realism, Rebirth just might be the reboot you’ve been waiting for.
The original Jurassic Park has long been hailed as a cinematic masterpiece by many, including myself. When I first saw it in theaters back in 1993, I felt a sense of wonder and amazement unlike anything I had experienced before.
…lacks the dread felt in the original’s historic T-Rex attack…
…easily the best-looking movie in the series since The Lost World…
Is it the mercenaries getting chomped from The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
…with ideas borrowed from “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Jurassic Park III,” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,”…
Krebs, for instance, rolled right off an assembly line of corporate Jurassic Park baddies that previously produced The Lost World and Fallen Kingdom antagonists.
It’s better than any Jurassic movie since The Lost World…
…since The Lost World debuted in 1997…
At times Rebirth, directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One), seems to be speedrunning through the Spielberg filmography, touching on the Jurassics but also Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Not the Rancor/Xenomorph kind spliced into Rebirth’s heavily touted, barely featured Distortus rex…
…there's something lurking there that looks like it had some "Alien" Xenomorph DNA added to its mix…
…whose look owes a lot to another franchise, mainly the Xenomorphs from ALIEN…
It’s not a novel creation, just a xenomorph crossed with the Godzilla from Evans’s own 2014 monster movie…
It lifts scenes from both Jaws and Alien without a hint of self-awareness.
…actually, the Alien and Jurassic franchises have a lot of overlap here if one replaces “paleontologist” with “android” and “dinosaurs” with “xenomorph”…
Is it the “random rich family in peril” story from the eminently forgettable Jurassic Park III?
…with ideas borrowed from “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Jurassic Park III,” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,”…
…you have a pretty good idea what happens next if you’ve seen any Jurassic movie…
…the marooned family subplot is less impactful than the marooned family in Jurassic Park III.
…the plastic jungle of Jurassic Park III…
Spielberg returned to direct the sequel “The Lost World” but not the third film, “Jurassic Park III”.
…in an amusing Final Destination-ish prologue…
…the cold open, which includes a Final Destination-like mishap…
…perhaps a fitting end for a business that, in an amusing Final Destination-ish prologue, cannot protect its people even from errant candy wrappers.
It all starts promisingly enough, with a genuinely creepy opening, only marred slightly by the Final Destination-esque contrivance that leads to the genetically mutated dinosaurs escaping.
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…a “Distortus Rex” (which looks like a T-Rex mixed with the monster from Cloverfield)…
…the Cloverfield monster’s general physique…
…the latter of which has slightly longer arms, an H.R. Giger cranium, a Predator’s maw and the Cloverfield monster’s general physique.
…a mutant six-limbed carnivore that looks extremely similar to the Rancor from Star Wars.
The score alone – as iconic as Superman, Indiana Jones, or Star Wars – instantly brings back that sense of movie magic.
Now a ship captain and smuggler extraordinaire, Duncan is the Han Solo-esque scoundrel of this story…
…on his generally anonymized style in the Godzilla and Star Wars franchises…
This would be more surprising if it weren’t Edwards’ general directorial M.O. on his generally anonymized style in the Godzilla and Star Wars franchises…
Edwards makes everything look as high-grade as you’d expect from someone who’s worked on the GODZILLA and STAR WARS franchises…
Or the genetically manipulated super-dinosaur from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom?
…with ideas borrowed from “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Jurassic Park III,” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,”…
Krebs, for instance, rolled right off an assembly line of corporate Jurassic Park baddies that previously produced The Lost World and Fallen Kingdom antagonists.
The scale is smaller than the sprawling chaos of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom or Dominion, and there’s a clear attempt to focus on a single, contained mission like films of the original trilogy.
Both the idea that humans have grown tired of the dinosaurs who were resurrected in 1993’s Jurassic Park and the flashy mutant dinos created by scientists were major parts of the Jurassic World trilogy masterminded by Colin Trevorrow.
Jurassic World Rebirth offers immense improvement over immediate predecessors Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World Dominion.
While Rebirth isn’t as dependent on homages as, say, Jurassic World, this sequence is so indebted to Park‘s kitchen sequence that it is robbed of nearly all of its effectiveness.
…its central ideas lazily rehash those of 2015’s Jurassic World…
The suspiciously survivable shop gives us one of many sequences that's reminiscent of something you've seen earlier in the franchise, or perhaps in another one, and it's in that reconstruction that Jurassic World Rebirth most closely tends to metatextuality.
…it’s already far up the charts after the two originals, and the beautifully enjoyable Jurassic World.
Even compared to the sub-par Jurassic World movies, those movies at least have a memorable action set piece.
I didn’t have high expectations for “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” assuming it would be added to the “Jurassic World” Hall of Shame with its predecessors.
…trying both to honor the previous films’ absurd and dead-end “world-building”…
Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion…
The 2022 film Jurassic World Dominion was a massive financial success and a lazy, slipshod attempt at storytelling. A muddled mix of nostalgia and badly paced suspense and dim-witted dialogue somehow seemed to please enough moviegoers (and studio brass), that we now have a fourth Jurassic World film, Rebirth.
Set five years after the events of Jurassic World: Dominion, Jurassic World Rebirth opens with a world that has already given up on the notion of dinosaurs coexisting with humans.
Set five years after dinosaurs began to walk the Earth freely once more at the end of “Jurassic World Dominion,”…
…the “all your favorites are back” nature of Dominion (a film that squandered the exciting promise of the prior entry’s batshit ending in a near-legendary bag fumble)…
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…a Predator’s maw…
…the latter of which has slightly longer arms, an H.R. Giger cranium, a Predator’s maw and the Cloverfield monster’s general physique.
Rancor from “Return of the Jedi”…
…essentially the Rancor from Return of the Jedi, but with lil T-Rex arms…