Jurassic World: Rebirth Review
Director: Gareth Edwards,
Date Created: 2025-07-05 15:19
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Jurassic World: Rebirth Review: Directed by Gareth Edwards, from a script by Jurassic Park veteran David Koepp, it’s a return to form for the venerable dinosaur franchise. The 2025 movie stars Scarlett Johansson in the lead along with Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise and others. The film clocks in at slightly over two hours and is set five years after “Jurassic World Dominion.” At its core, it’s a risky venture to collect dinosaur DNA for medical use, to a heart-pounding story of alarm and flight on a perilous, isolated island.
Jurassic World: Rebirth Review
Jurassic World Dominion chilled me to the bone with its messy plot and nostalgia bomb. I was not sure if I wanted to watch another dinosaur flick this soon. But trust me, this film completely changed my aforementioned opinion. It’s far from being perfect, but it’s a highly well-made, suspenseful and enjoyable film, and it made me fall in love with the franchise again.
The reason that Jurassic World: Rebirth is so engrossing is that they have taken tired, detective novel tropes and mixed them with fresh ideas. Director Gareth Edwards is excellent at creating a stunning film without compromising the suspense. His approach of building up slowly and then letting it loose in large, heart-stopping scenes actually pays off here. You don’t merely see dinosaurs — you sense their power, their threat, their majesty.
One of the smartest moves the filmmakers made was to bring back David Koepp, the screenwriter of the original Jurassic Park. One can see his hand in how the film gets the proper mix of science fiction and human emotion and action. It’s not quite such a razzle-dazzle CGI extravaganza — though there is some of that, to be sure — but it does boast solid world-building and high adventure.
In the rebooted Jurassic World: Rebirth, we track Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), an undercover ops agent who’s been dispatched to obtain genetic material from the last surviving giant dinosaurs alive. Those dinos, buried in the right hot spot, could be the key to life-saving medical miracles. But when her team’s operation intersects with a civilian family trapped in a boat wreck, things rapidly go extremely, extremely wrong. This time, they all end up stranded on some remote island, which was effectively a secret Jurassic Park superlab. And as you might suspect, the dinos aren’t far behind.
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The premise may sound familiar, humans stranded with dinosaurs and in a fight to survive, but it’s the way that is told that will feel refreshing. One of my best moments involved a tense river raft sequence that had me on the edge of my seat. I later discovered that it was based on Michael Crichton’s first novel, and you can tell.
The scary, passionate, brilliantly shot horror movie. The appearance of the dinosaur in the Jurassic World: Rebirth movie is also surprising. It’s not directly the classic T-Rex but rather a new, more terrifying and mostly genetically engineered species. Initially, I couldn’t comprehend these “creature-like” beings but they ended up being quite terrifying and made the movie different from the rest.
As for the performances, the film is fine, with Scarlett Johansson doing a good job of carrying the film. Her first character is chilly and mission-bound, but throughout the film, we see her warm up and bond with the family stranded on the planet. As ever, Mahershala Ali is an authoritative presence and will be a fan favourite. I did find a couple of the emotional moments — especially between Johansson and Bailey’s characters — contrived. But fortunately, the film does not waste too much time on romance, and keeps its attention where it belongs — on survival and exploration.
One small quibble I have with it is the unsurprising villain. The evil corporate player is Rupert Friend, and he does a good job with the part, but still feels a little too familiar. Nevertheless, his work brings some much-needed conflict and stakes.
The other thing that I just loved about the film Jurassic World: Rebirth is that it gave its characters something to fight for. Instead of fleeing from dinosaurs for amusement, they have their own purpose with real-world consequences: harvesting DNA that can transform lives. That gives it an emotional depth that the earlier films sorely lacked.
Jurassic World Rebirth Review: Summing Up
From opening roar to closing face-off, Jurassic World Rebirth is full of action, adventure, and feeling. It doesn’t try to do everything or be cleverer than it needs to be. It simply does a fantastic job of telling a story, with pulse-pounding set pieces and terrifying beasts against backdrops of sweeping vistas. And sometimes, that is all it takes for a good blockbuster to be.
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