Jurassic World: Rebirth Review
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Gareth Edwards, written by David Koepp and Michael Crichton and starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Niamh Finlay, Audrina Miranda, Bechir Sylvain and Adam Loxley.
Director Gareth Edwards brings suspense and excitement back to the screen in the newest chapter in a franchise that certainly needed a boost. Jurassic World: Rebirth keeps the stakes high for the characters involved which keeps the tension building throughout. This new film focuses on a team which sets out to extract DNA from three rare dinosaur types. Scarlett Johansson is the lead, but the movie also has a well-assembled ensemble cast that works in the film’s favor both as dinosaur bait and characters the audience will want to see escape with their lives intact. Well, for the most part anyway. Rupert Friend’s character, Martin Krebs, is the closest thing the movie has to a non-dinosaur villain and Friend is more than up to the task of keeping the viewer waiting for the moment where Martin will get his just desserts.
Though the expedition is initially about a potentially big financial payoff for those involved, the story becomes a fight for survival, not only for the group of researchers at hand, but also for a family that gets rescued and becomes unwillingly dragged along for the ride. As the story typically goes, Martin and his colleagues’ attempt at earning big riches becomes a bit complicated thanks to our group of vicious dinosaurs.
Johansson’s Zora Bennett and Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) soon become the central characters in the film while the great Mahershala Ali plays Duncan Kincaid who becomes, perhaps, the most heroic of the bunch as the picture progresses. As far as the family along for the ride is concerned, it is led by the dad, Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo). His kids are played by Luna Blaise (the oldest), David Iacono and Audrina Miranda whose character finds a friend in a small little dinosaur in the picture.
Garcia-Rulfo turns in a solid performance as the dad out to protect his kids from harm. The young performers who compromise the kids in the family in the film, Blaise, Iacono and Miranda, work well together. They are mostly side characters, though, in the action although the viewer will also root for them throughout the duration of the picture.
Edwards builds tension right from the start with a vicious attack in a lab and carries through on the promise of keeping audiences on the edge of their seats throughout. A large raft must be obtained without waking a sleeping dinosaur at one point and that scene will have audience members on pins and needles. When the dinosaur wakes up and chases our family down the river, the audience will certainly enjoy the results.
Rupert Friend’s character definitely doesn’t do the right thing when he almost lets Blaise’s character fall, and Martin doesn’t have any regret about almost letting her die. That makes him the easiest human to despise here. Friend adequately plays his character as the one out for himself and the actor plays his role accordingly.
Johansson is a character that the audience can root for, but Bailey and Ali are also more than sufficient in their roles as well. It is Ali’s character who will have the audience cheering by the time the ending arrives. Like any good movie in this vein, Jurassic World: Rebirth keeps the viewer anxious to see the dinosaurs and doesn’t show them too much at the start. This builds anticipation so when the creatures do arrive, the audience will be waiting for them with open arms.
Edwards’ film runs a little long at slightly over two hours but never outwears its welcome. That’s because the movie has a good slate of characters that take focus at different intervals throughout. For example, when the family scenes start to feel a little lengthy, the movie cuts to Johansson and her team so the balance between the characters is never shifted too heavily on any particular character which works well in this particular case.
In the grand scheme of things, Jurassic World: Rebirth will certainly please fans of this franchise more than the previous film in the series did. That’s because Edwards keeps the awe of the dinosaurs intact from beginning to end and the director has exciting chase sequences at his helm which are most excellently played out, particularly Mahershala Ali’s Duncan’s final confrontation with a key dinosaur towards the end. All the action scenes feel fresher than they have been in years for this franchise. Johansson and Ali are among the humans that keep Edwards’s movie relatable, but the dinosaurs also make it the enjoyable thrill ride that it ultimately becomes.
Rating: 7.5/10
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