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Opening Date

02 Jul 2025

Rating

PG13 Some Violence

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Runtime

133 mins

Language

English with English & Chinese subtitles

Genre

Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director

Gareth Edwards

Cast

Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Ed Skrein

Synopsis

An action-packed new chapter sees an intrepid team racing to secure DNA samples from the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air.

Reviews

By Riin 02 Jul 2025

Delivers on being a fun, forgettable, inoffensive action-adventure flick.

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Jurassic World Rebirth centres itself on the promise of a fresh start to a franchise already bloated with two trilogies. Does it live up to rebirthing the same magic that once held audiences captive? Or will it be forgotten, like the dinosaurs in the movie, after the novelty has worn off?

For starters, Rebirth does distinguish itself with an entirely new cast and timeline, set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion (2022). The planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs, and those that remain now thrive in isolated islands, away from the public eye. The world’s love for these prehistoric beings has waned over the past few years, leaving less support for dinosaurs to survive.

In comes Zora Benett, a skilled mercenary played by Scarlet Johansson, hired to secure genetic material for a cure to cardiac disease. She recruits the best men she knows and venture deep into the earth’s equator, extracting DNA from the world’s largest dinosaurs belonging to three distinct environments – land, sea and sky. It’s a premise that lends itself well for a schlocky, simple adventure with gorgeous environment changes and heavy on screen-popping action. The kind of movie that knows exactly what it is – fun and uncerebral.

There's a fleeting moment of awe when the team watches a herd of Titanosauruses as the iconic original music score encompasses the room. It's a moment that'll sweep you into an optimistic mood that the movie has potential to be greater, more lasting, more something.

But as quickly as the scene comes, it flickers away to the family subplot, to a father taking his two daughters out on a tiny boat in the middle of the pacific ocean, plus a stoner boyfriend.

Where Jurassic World Rebirth falls flat is an unwillingness to be invested in anything that’s going on – an overbloated cast, rushed emotional arcs, threats constantly being introduced but lacking screentime, which tends to flatten the catharsis of “defeating” them. More importantly, the dinosaurs, the staple of the franchise, are left to the wayside — footnotes in their own story. It is eager to thrust into action and comedy, without giving gravitas to anything.

But the fundamental catch is that it lacks the patience of the original movie. It lacks the vision to build up its world, to let the camera linger where a character is clearly going through something. There was this love for the dinosaurs and grown adults’ capacity to imagine a world greater than themselves. It felt tied together. Like, a really, really good bedtime story.

But a plastic sheen covers everything in the sequel, from glossy candy wrappers, beer cans and packets conveniently placed, to the CGI of the sauropods, to the waxy quality of Zora's face after losing her boyfriend.

However, the premise had potential. There’s a funny moment where one of the last remaining sauropods blocks a busy road with its dying body, causing a character to go, “Just die already!” Bleak, but relevant.

Or when Dr. Loomis calls out the cruelty in breeding things to be overengineered, unrecognisable, deformed versions for amusement, only to fail to live up to the first park’s success.

Could that have been awareness on the filmmaker’s part? Who knows.

Jurassic World Rebirth delivers on being a fun, inoffensive action-adventure flick, but is the kind of cinematic experience that washes over you by the time those two hours are over, unconcerned if you care.
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