Jurassic World Rebirth is a love letter to the original 1993 blockbuster and its sequels. Returning Jurassic Park writer David Koepp and director Gareth Edwards have successfully reinvigorated the series with this soft reboot and continuation of the iconic franchise!
Rebirth follows covert operatives Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), who embark on a dangerous mission to retrieve dinosaur DNA samples from an abandoned InGen research facility on the Island of Ile Saint-Hubert. This operation is headed by the shady ParkerGenix pharmaceutical representative Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend), with palaeontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) tagging along for support.
Welcome… to Jurassic Park!
The mission takes an unexpected turn when they rescue Reuben Delgado (Manuel Gracia-Rulfo), his daughters Teresa (Luna Blaise) and Isabella (Audrina Miranda), and Teresa’s boyfriend Xavier Dobbs (David Iacono) on the way to the island. If dinosaurs are a handful for trained operatives, then what are the chances for a family to survive the terrifying onslaught of vicious and hungry dinosaurs?
Rebirth is a visually stunning film thanks to the use of Kodak film cameras using Panavision lenses; there’s an ethereal quality from shooting on film that digital cameras have a hard time replicating, and it goes a long way to making Rebirth visually look and feel like a spiritual successor to the original Jurassic Park trilogy, rather than a follow-up to the Jurassic World entries. Edwards also employs many shots taken directly from the handbook of Steven Spielberg himself, which helps make Rebirth feel cohesive.
Hold onto your butts!
Moviegoers are in for a treat with action-packed set pieces that must be experienced on the biggest screen you can find! This includes the much-anticipated Tyrannosaurus Rex raft sequence ripped straight from the original novel by Michael Crichton. Rebirth also brings the scares with well-executed dino-horror and suspense, with jump scares and fake-outs to keep moviegoers guessing. Thankfully they’re balanced out by moments dedicated to the wonderment and magic of these majestic creatures of a bygone era.
The performances of Johansson, Ali, and Bailey provide the film with much-needed personal stakes and tension to keep audiences invested, and they’re a refreshing change of pace from the world-ending stakes featured in the previous films.
Fans will love the menagerie of new and returning dinos, as well as the many references and easter eggs hidden throughout. You can expect old favourites such as the T-Rex, Spinosaurus, Velociraptor, and the Mosasaurus, and new punters, such as the adorable Dolores, a baby Aquilops, plus, the nightmare-inducing Distortis Rex, who’s sure to become a classic Jurassic Park monster!
Jurassic World Rebirth is an excellent back-to-basics continuation of the Jurassic franchise, delivering us the old-school dino-mayhem that was missing in the Jurassic World series. In essence, Rebirth is the long-awaited Jurassic Park 4 we never got, until now… it seems like life found a way!
Jurassic World Rebirth is in cinemas now!
