Jurassic World Rebirth is finally playing in theaters, and dinosaurs once again look set to rule the world this long Fourth of July weekend. However, following mixed reviews from critics, it seems filmgoers aren't enamoured with the franchise's fresh start from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story helmer Gareth Edwards.
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I am not quite sure why the latest spinoff of Steven Spielberg‘s enormously popular Jurassic franchise is using the Jurassic World moniker of the past trilogy rather than the Jurassic Park handle of the first trilog. Jurassic World Rebirth looks and feels somewhat retro, like it could have been a direct sequel to one of the earlier films that Spielberg himself directed, rather than simply executive produced, as is the case again with this one. But even with that EP title, make no mistake, Spielberg’s fingerprints are all over it. He and his Amblin team including director Gareth Edwards reunited with screenwriter David Koepp, who wrote the first two Jurassic World films, have concocted another winner with all the elements that made this such a blockbuster series in movies and Universal theme parks.
Jurassic World Rebirth received a 53% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and has been awarded 74% by moviegoers. Now, we have a CinemaScore, which is perhaps the best indication of how beneficial word of mouth will be to a movie.
As a reminder, CinemaScore is a market research firm that surveys audience reactions to newly released movies.
After attending opening night screenings, moviegoers rate films on an A+ to F scale, providing insights into audience satisfaction. Widely used in the film industry, CinemaScore helps gauge the initial reception of movies and influences box office predictions based on audience feedback.
While many expected a longer break between films—especially with the previous trilogy concluding just three years ago—we’re heading back to the land of dinosaurs this week with Jurassic World Rebirth. Hatched from the mind of Steven Spielberg himself, this new chapter takes the franchise in an exciting and terrifying new direction, simply by going back to basics.
Proof of that is just to look at the box office of the past three entries, ending with 2022’s Jurassic World Rebirth , each one a billion-dollar-plus grosser. No wonder they had to find a way to keep this cash cow going, but I have to say it was a bit inspired to get Koepp (who also wrote Spielberg’s untitled film and return to the director’s chair that’s due for release next summer) back on board as it has the unbridled feel of a rousing adventure, another journey into the unknown of a franchise we think we know all too well. Turns out there’s still gold to be mined even in mixing the Jurassic DNA with that of other movies, notably Jaws, Kong: Skull Island, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and I would even add others much older like King Solomon’s Mines and The Lost World (not necessarily Spielberg’s 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park but Irwin Allen’s cheesy but primitively fun 1960 movie).
That’s the film’s basic premise, setting the stage for an old-school adventure that leans closer in tone and scope to the original Jurassic Park films—particularly Jurassic Park III—rather than the world-building ambitions of the Jurassic World trilogy. Director Gareth Edwards and screenwriter David Koepp acknowledge what’s come before, but after thirty years of dinosaur cinema, they’re more interested in having fun and upping the scares rather than turning dinosaurs into the prehistoric Avengers.
Despite an accelerated production schedule, Edwards and Oscar-nominated cinematographer John Mathieson make Rebirth look and feel more dangerous and vibrant than its predecessors, thanks in no small part to the film’s on-location shoot. While dinosaurs have looked cool in cities, they unsurprisingly feel far more terrifying in the jungle. Edwards takes full advantage of this setting, using it to amplify suspense and create opportunities for terrifying encounters. He also injects a healthy dose of fun, embracing the insanity of the premise and avoiding the overly self-serious tone of the recent trilogy. Unlike the previous three films that tried to make dinosaurs more family-friendly, Rebirth allows them to simply be animals—feral, unpredictable, and, above all else, deadly.
July is shaping up to be a busy month for theaters, with this, Superman, Smurfs, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps all competing for the attention of moviegoers. However, bad news for Jurassic World Rebirth could be good news for the Man of Tomorrow if this first wave of mixed reviews negatively impacts the box office prospects of Gareth Edwards' new start for the franchise.
These filmmakers have found a way to mix the time-honored adventure movie genre with that of horror to satisfy contemporary audiences but also spark some nostalgia for a brand we don’t see as often in this Marvel/DC superhero era. In this case, it is five years since the cloned dinosaurs of Dominion were running untethered, and now with climate change and other worldly events we find them headed for extinction once again. They are able to exist only in tropical climates near the equator, basically forgotten by a jaded populace who have moved on to other diversions, and are relegated to a largely deserted island named Ile Saint-Hubert, just a couple of hundred miles off South America. It is completely verboten and forbidden to any human being.
This particular jungle setting last was used as an initial research and development location, headquarters still intact, for the first iteration of these cloned dinos. Now man’s very greed is going to interrupt the animals’ peaceful existence yet again as Big Pharma has discovered that many of the ancient creatures regularly lived to over 100 due to strong hearts. With the idea that a massive drug company could not only revolutionize modern medical science for the world’s leading killer, heart disease, but also stand to make billions of dollars, an aggressive executive for one of them, Martin Krebs (a slippery Rupert Friend), enlists the services of a team led by extraction covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson, back in action) to obtain the DNA of some of the worst of the worst of these dinos. Notably they include the avian Quetzalcoatlus, aquatic Mosasaurus, and terresstrial Titanosaurus. Sure, why not? She is driven by a big payday to boot.
She is joined by devoted paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), a past student of Sam Neill’s Dr. Alan Grant who shares in his enthusiasm for studying and celebrating the majesty of the dinos and is eager to see them in action in person for the first time in his life. Add to the mix the team of the seagoing Essex including skipper and soldier of fortune Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and his crew (Ed Skrein, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain) as they travel to this remote island to get the three key DNA samples through special injections. And they have clever ways of doing just that. What Krebs doesn’t tell them is this isn’t a Disneyland ride; he downplays any risks to the humans involved because the end result and riches for his company are what matters most to him, not job safety.
There is a complication, though, when the Essex encounters and rescues a shipwrecked capsized sailing vessel with Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), his two daughters (Luna Blaise, Audrina Miranda) and one of their boyfriends (David Iacono), who have barely survived an attack by the roaming underwater Mosasaurus clan. This takes up much of the first half of the picture, and you wouldn’t be wrong to think you were suddenly watching Jurassic Jaws as it allows the franchise to hit the open sea for a change and unquestionably resembles that 1975 Spielberg classic for a long while — that is until they all wind up on shore in what has the feel of a kind of Skull Island meets Swiss Family Robinson.
Edwards, joining the franchise for the first time, clearly gets the idea of where this should go as his past films like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2014’s Godzilla and the underpraised but riveting 2023 sci-fi film, The Creator show he is up for the task. Working from Koepp’s smart script, the results offer much to chew on — not only for the hungry dinos but also the moviegoers, who will eat this up. The blend works well with lots of action, PG-13 gore and some sensational new dinosaurs to savor, giving this seventh iteration of the idea spun off (and still spinning) from Michael Crichton’s bestseller a fresh reboot.
One of the best set pieces this time is a river encounter with a sleeping T-Rex awakened to wreak havoc came from Crichton’s novel but not feasible to film in 1993. It clearly was now, judging from the results, as modern technology has caught up to it so we get a nice T-Rex cameo as a big bonus. And let’s face it, as in every Jurassic pic, the real stars we come for are the dinos, and this current bunch are dino-myte (sorry, so sorry). Credit the effects wizards who worked overtime to deliver, and they do.
Unfortunately, some of the humans aren’t as compelling, even if their main purpose is to be a potential entrée for our beastly stars. In fact, the attempt to add the Delgado family, supposedly just out for a normal journey in their catamaran on the way to Capetown, is an unnecessary distraction and tends to stretch credibility (if it needed any more stretching) by slowing down the action and the main event to focus on their own family issues, rather than the task at hand. I get that Koepp and Edwards wanted to include some normies to interact with the beastly native population, but this plot device really could have been left on the cutting-room floor and the nifty attack of Mosasaurus gang relegated instead to the Essex.
Still, the overall effect with well drawn, if clichéd, characters for Johansson, Ali, Friend and particularly Bailey (sandwiching this change of pace in between Wicked installments) makes for one of the better Jurassics; it’s no match for the one that started it all 32 years ago but is a cut above standard summertime fare. It also is comforting to see Alexander Desplat niftily merge his stirring score with just the right amount of John Williams’ original theme, one of the great themes in movies ever, on a par with what the maestro did with Jaws, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
It might sound like a challenge to believe these humans would sign up to visit a forbidden jungle for guaranteed encounters with truly frightening and gigantic creatures out of another time in order to essentially get blood samples, but if you are game to go with that premise, a good time will be had for all. If there is to be an eighth installment, count me in.
Producers are Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley.
Title: Jurassic World Rebirth
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: July 3, 2025
Director: Gareth Edwards
Screenwriter: David Koepp
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ed Skrein, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain.
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 2 hr 13 mins
Is Jurassic World Rebirth streaming?
As of right now, the only way to see Jurassic World Rebirth is by watching it at your local movie theater. But fear not, because it won't be long before you can stream the film without needing to leave home.
Where to watch and stream Jurassic World Rebirth:
When the time comes to watch Jurassic World Rebirth online, fans can stream it on Peacock. This is due to the movie being distributed by Universal Studios, which is part of a media conglomerate that also owns Peacock.
Now, before you can watch Jurassic World Rebirth on Peacock, you'll need to first create an account. The streamer offers a number of plans to choose from that begin at $7.99 per month (or $79.99 per year). Once you're all set, just click on the title page on Peacock's website or watch on-the-go with the Peacock app.
While you wait, why not watch all the Jurassic Park movies in order? That way you'll be all caught up when Jurassic World Rebirth is available to watch at home.
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ About To Get Loud With $260M Global Opening Over Independence Day Stretch – Box Office Preview
It’s Jurassic World Rebirth all the time, until DC Studios/Warner Bros’ Superman opens next week, and the rumbling starts offshore today in Hong Kong and tomorrow in the U.S., UK, China, Germany, Korea, Spain and Italy; the overall global outlook by Sunday being $260M on the high end.
Broken out we’re seeing $130M+ abroad with the dinos dropping into Australia, Brazil, Mexico and the Netherlands on Thursday. On Friday, they head to France and India, among others. In total, a big footprint of 82 markets overseas with Japan joining in August.
Jurassic World Rebirth arrives in theaters tomorrow, and it sounds like the studio may already be making plans for a sequel.
Although the movie is being marketed as a new beginning for the franchise, it is far from a full reboot, and the previous JW movies have made a lot of money for Universal Pictures. With this in mind, it wouldn't exactly be a surprise if the studio has its eye on a direct sequel with the same cast and director.
Jurassic World Rebirth held its world premiere in London earlier this week, and the first social media reactions for this latest entry in Universal's roaringly successful franchise have now been shared online.
Aside from one vaguely (and one not so vaguely) negative post, the majority of people who have seen the movie seem to feel that the studio has delivered a return to form after the widely panned Jurassic World Dominion.
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