A review of the new blockbuster movie “Jurassic World Rebirth”
After a trio of “Jurassic Park” movies (1993, 1997, 2001) and a trio of “Jurassic World” films (2015, 2018, 2022), I’m not sure that we really needed a seventh episode in the franchise, but it seems that dinosaurs are ever-popular and ever-profitable and this latest adventure has a few things going for it. The special effects get better and better and this time we have a host of monsters thanks to the setting on an island where a previous research facility had to be abandoned after various experimental life forms didn’t work out. As well as plenty of thrills and spills and the occasional gore, there’s some humour and a hint of romance.
Two familiar creators are back: David Koepp who wrote the first two films plus this one and Steven Spielberg, director of the first two instalments and executive producer of all the others. But, we have a new director, Gareth Edwards who directed “Godzilla”, and – for the first time in a sequel in the franchise – all the actors are newcomers to the series and we have some real stars with some witty lines, notably Mahershala Ali as captain of the boat and leader of the team plus Scarlett Johansson as a covert operative and Lara Croft type character. It’s all good fun and rather entertaining, but I think its time for the franchise to become extinct.