I don’t know exactly how many movies we need highlighting the folly of mankind’s attempts to overturn nature’s will, but it looks like the Jurassic Park/World franchise isn’t done yet.
I didn’t have high hopes for “Jurassic World: Rebirth” when it came to our theater, but I like most of the actors in the main cast, so I decided to give it a whirl.
The basic storyline stays the same as with every other Jurassic iteration that came before, but at least we’re dealing with mostly different dinosaurs.
Though the epic T-Rex does make a brief appearance and all I can say is that if you’re a fan of the franchise then you’ll probably enjoy it more than I did.
Rebirth is a science fiction action thriller film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp.
As a standalone sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022), it is the fourth Jurassic World film and the seventh installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise.
The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Audrina Miranda, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain, and Ed Skrein.
It clocks in at 133 minutes long and is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence/action, bloody images, some suggestive references, language and a drug reference.
In 2008, InGen is operating a dinosaur research laboratory on Île Saint-Hubert in the Atlantic Ocean.
The site is used for genetic experiments, including transgenic and mutated dinosaurs.
One of these creations, a deformed six-limbed tyrannosaur dubbed "Distortus rex", escapes containment due to careless accidental human error.
It kills an employee and wreaks havoc, forcing the personnel to abandon the island and is largely forgotten about.
In the present, most of Earth's climate has become inhospitable to sustain the de-extinct dinosaurs that previously spread around the world.
The remaining animals survive in areas around the equator, which resemble the Mesozoic climate, making them no-travel zones.
ParkerGenix pharmaceutical executive Martin Krebs (Friend) recruits Zora Bennett (Johansson), an ex-military covert operative, to collaborate with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey) on a top-secret mission.
Their goal is to retrieve biomaterial samples from the three largest remaining prehistoric specimens, which hold the key to a new heart disease treatment.
In a bar in Suriname, Zora recruits her longtime friend Duncan Kincaid (Ali) to lead the expedition.
He brings boat driver LeClerc (Sylvain), mercenary Nina (Velge), and security chief Bobby Atwater (Skrein).
The expedition team sets out to Île Saint-Hubert to extract samples from the aquatic Mosasaurus, terrestrial Titanosaurus, and avian Quetzalcoatlus.
Meanwhile, Reuben Delgado (Rulfo) is sailing nearby with his daughters Isabella (Miranda) and Teresa (Blaise), before the latter leaves for college.
Traveling with them is Teresa's boyfriend Xavier Dobbs (Iacono), whom Reuben finds obnoxious.
The family are shipwrecked by the Mosasaurus and use a radio to call for help, with the expedition team coming to their rescue.
Unfortunately, things only get worse once they’re on the island and in true Jurassic Park franchise fashion, their numbers decrease the closer they get to their goal.
So, while I found the movie to be predictable overall, I can vouch for the mutated dinosaurs being more terrifying on the big screen than I was expecting.
Again, it wasn’t an awesome film but it’s definitely middling popcorn fare and that’s fine enough for me.
