You just can’t keep a good dinosaur down or in the case of Jurassic World Rebirth, a bad dinosaur because in the standard scene setter for the franchise the film opens in a research lab on an island where scientists are messing about with dino DNA which resulting in a freakish and fearsome monster. And taking a leaf out of the always inventive Final Destination films it’s a stray chocolate bar wrapper that culminates in disaster.
That opening scene setter has been a template for many of the most recent films and whisking forward a few years Jurassic World Rebirth introduces Zora ( Scarlett Johansson), something of a mercenary soldier of fortune, who is offered a huge wad of cash to revisit the island along with a paleontologist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey). Her mission to keep him safe while he recovers DNA from the island for a serum that will help save thousands if not millions of lives. Sounds easy enough except the DNA must be collected from living dinosaur species on the island all of whom have been bred in order to up the danger element at the now long closed Jurassic Park. Added to the challenge is that each sample must be taken from avian, terrestrial and marine dinosaurs, so off they sail in a boat captained by Zora’s old friend Duncan (Mahershala Ali) and his crew
The last film saw the dinosaurs out in the big wide world but disease and the modern world have seen them slowly die out and now there’s just a thin belt where they can survive and where humans steer clear – a message that didn’t get to Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and something of a Pedro Pascal lookee-likee) who is sailing in his own yacht from Barbados to Cape Town with his young daughter and his eldest daughter and her flaky, lazy arse boyfriend – the sort of character who would seem to be obvious dino-dinner. Disaster beckons when they accidently encounter the first of the marine dinosaurs and the family is rescued by Zora and her crew but they all now find themselves stranded on the island of deadly dinos in what is a series of set pieces as they try to escape the island alive.
The franchise has been a massive success although often of differing quality and the template is a variable on the usual plot – the dinosaurs run amok picking off the cast one by one. Jurassic Park’s screen writer David Koepp returns to write the screenplay, his first since ‘The Lost World’ in 1997 and resurrects a set piece that was dropped from the first film – the T-Rex and the river raft. It’s one of a series of highly entertaining almost back to back set pieces that keeps the thrills coming and the film moving along as the cast attempt to collect the DNA before the climatic face off with the Big Boss of deranged dinosaurs. It’s that monstrous creation glimpsed at the start of the film that builds towards with a creature design that part homages the Alien design and it’s a monster that could have done with more screen time. And balancing out the carnivorous is the cute with a baby dino that the young daughter befriends which seems to be more of an eye on soft toy merchandise that adding anything to the plot
So whilst its not surprise who is going to be taken out – the subtext of this is that the company men who value money over life will pay for that ethos with their life – but it’s a lot of fun getting there as disaster besets their best laid plans.
Helmed by Gareth Edwards who has proved adept with super spectacle blockbusters that have included Godzilla (2104), Rogue One and most recently the under rated The Creator and he handles the action with aplomb and has been savvy enough to include almost endless Easter eggs for the eagle eyed that should ensure a huge audience in what should be the successful new trilogy.
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