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\"\"Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 134 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence\/action, bloody images, some suggestive references, language and a drug reference)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Gareth Edwards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: David Koepp\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Alexandre Desplat\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John Mathieson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 2, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Niamh Finlay, Bechir Sylvain.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0Unlike the majority of filmgoers, I didn\u2019t dislike the Jurassic World trilogy. I didn\u2019t think any of them were great, but they weren\u2019t bad either. There hasn\u2019t been a great Jurassic movie since Jurassic Park (1993), the one that started all this dinosaur business. That is, until now.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The circumstances under which I saw the newest installment Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> were rather unusual. It was the AMC Screen Unseen feature on June 23. They don\u2019t usually show blockbuster-type movie. They typically show smaller films (e.g. The Life of Chuck, 40 Acres) that most people haven\u2019t heard of. The idea is to generate positive word of mouth. You don\u2019t need to do that with Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong>. People know what it is; they\u2019re going to come out and see it. I, like everybody else I know, was shocked when word got out that this would be the Screen Unseen. I\u2019m so glad it was. It\u2019s great!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One), Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> is the first time NONE of the characters from the original make an appearance. There\u2019s a single mention of Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), but that\u2019s it. This seventh installment in the series has a whole new set of characters (or dinosaur bait if you prefer) trespassing where they ought not to be. In this instance, it\u2019s Ile Saint-Hubert, an island on which an InGen research facility was once located. They were experimenting on dinosaurs, creating new species, until things went south and they had to close down. Now the island is populated by dangerous prehistoric creatures.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s now illegal for humans to travel to locales populated by dinosaurs. This is why pharmaceutical company rep Martin Krebs (Friend, Homeland) has to go off the books for a special mission. He needs DNA from the three biggest creatures to make a new drug with massive life-saving potential. It\u2019s a cure for heart disease. He hires covert operative (or mercenary if you prefer) Zora Bennett (Johansson, Black Widow) to lead a team, which includes paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey, Bridgerton), to the island to obtain the necessary genetic material. Transportation is provided by boat captain Duncan Kincaid (Ali, Green Book).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Along the way, the team picks up a shipwrecked family- dad Reuben (Rulfo, The Magnificent Seven), teen daughter Teresa (Blaise, Manifest), her boyfriend Xavier (Iacono, Fear Street: Prom Queen) and youngest daughter Isabella (Miranda) – after their boat is capsized by a giant prehistoric aquatic creature. They all end up on the island where they chased and hunted by dinosaurs of all varieties including one called a D-Rex, basically a mutant T-Rex.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Anymore, the big summer blockbusters leave me with a hollow feeling. Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> is the first movie this summer not to do that. It\u2019s great! I enjoyed as much as I did the original Jurassic Park more than 30 years ago. It\u2019s thrilling, it\u2019s fun and contains plenty of chomp-chomp action. The dinosaurs, a combination of animatronics and CGI, look cool, especially the D-Rex. Some are fierce; a few, like the Aquilops adopted by the little girl, are cute. Initially terrified of dinosaurs, she gets over it quickly once she bonds with \u201cDolores\u201d. The special effects in Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> are really quite good, but not as impressive as they were in \u201993.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One of the most predictable things about Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> is the fate of the characters. You pretty much know who\u2019s going to live and who\u2019s going to end up as dinosaur chow. That\u2019s fine; it\u2019s part of the fun. The cast does a good job. I love Johansson as an actress, but I wasn\u2019t completely sold on her as a tough mercenary. She\u2019s played bad ass characters before- e.g. Lucy, the MCU films- but she seems a little out of element here. To her credit, she\u2019s a lot better than Bryce Dallas Howard in the previous JW movies. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any big secret that Friend\u2019s character turns out to be a bad guy. He\u2019s a greedy corporate type who claims of altruism are total BS. He plays a great villain. Bailey does a fine job as the nerdy scientist who legitimately has good intentions.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> is the kind of movie you surrender yourself to on a Saturday afternoon. It\u2019s silly yet smart. Edwards doesn\u2019t weigh things down with more talk about playing God. It\u2019s just a movie where people, most of them not too bright, get chased by dinosaurs. It has plenty of action and a few scary scenes. It\u2019s a fun summer movie. Just sit back and enjoy.\"\"<\/p>\n

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