Jurassic World: Rebirth Review

 

Alright, let's see what the Jurassic franchise has in store this time.

Jurassic World: Rebirth is a sci-fi thriller and acts as a standalone sequel to Jurassic World: Dominion. Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World series but it's the seventh installment of the franchise. Production was handed by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures, the latter of which also distributed. David Koepp, who previously co-wrote the original Jurassic Park and wrote the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park II, returns to write the story to Rebirth, with Gareth Edwards serving as the director.

The story is, a team of operatives are sent to the island of the original Jurassic Park and must go to the research facility to secure genetic dinosaur DNA that can provide life-saving benefits to mankind. But the deeper the teams goes they'll discover secrets that have been hidden from the world for decades.

Initial Reaction

I'll keep it simple, I wanted to see this because I'm a Jurassic Park fan. Now do I think the Jurassic World movies are perfect masterpieces? No, but I do believe people are way too hyperbolic when it comes to their quality.

Cons

I've got nothing.

Middle Ground

Now the first mix bag comes from the characters. Some were clearly there just to fill the body count, others at least have some sort of personalities like Scarlett Johansson's Zora and Jonathan Bailey's Dr. Henry Loomis. But then we have the Delagdo family and Xavier. I'll give the actors and actresses credit they are trying despite their weak material, but that family and boyfriend were just as generic as the body count characters. I mean it, the only description I would be able to give these characters are the dad, the oldest daughter, youngest daughter, and the boyfriend. Again, no disrespect to the actors and actresses, but those characters just weren't written well. Then there's the story. Now I'll give David Koepp credit for going back to basics. It was fun seeing a more survival story. But I do wish we went deeper with the mutant dinosaurs. We start off with them in the beginning and the lab they were in, but for the longest period we don't spend much time with them. I get the filmmakers didn't want to overuse them, but when they're your main hype in marketing, people are gonna expect to see a lot of them.

Pros

One credit to the movie I want to give is the action. Gareth Edwards did a great job with the thrills. There's a really good scene where the team is getting DNA from an egg and the mother Pterosaur comes and their cliff climbing becomes a life and death situation. I liked that scene, that had some awesome suspense in it. I also want to give my last credit to the cast. Despite the story's just okay material, the cast still gave us some good performances. They were able to bring some sort of depth and charm to some otherwise serviceable characters.

While Jurassic World: Rebirth isn't gonna set the world on fire like the first Jurassic Park movie, I can't bring myself to say it's bad. If you want to see by all means go right ahead. But if you're gonna wait some other time to go to theaters that's fine too.

My final rating is, Okay.

That's all for now. Come back on Monday, Jul 7th, for the last part of my Road to The Naked Gun (2025), with my review of The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.