It’s no secret that after the first “Jurassic Park,” film, its sequels never lived up to the quality of the original and that still holds up with the recently released “Jurassic World Rebirth.” However, it did surprisingly well to entertain better than the previous entry “Jurassic World Dominion,” which admittedly isn’t exactly that high of a bar. But it isn’t the most amazing film to come out of the franchise and that’s okay. I’ll say now that a spoiler warning will be in effect.
The premise was simple enough for the film to follow easily, as the main group of characters travel to an abandoned island to get blood samples from dinosaurs to create a cure for heart conditions, with an overall looming threat of an abandoned lab that was developing mutant dinosaurs. However, one thing of note is that the mutants remain irrelevant in the film’s plot until the very end of the film’s runtime and the main villain, named the D. Rex, fails to get a single kill on the main cast besides a few unnamed helicopter pilots. For an island that is supposedly full of mutant dinosaurs, there’s a very noticeable lack of them.
The characters were also bland and barebones. You could immediately tell which characters would die and which characters would end up surviving. There’s a B plot of a family that gets stranded on the island alongside the main cast, yet it fails to serve any narrative purpose other than to have the cut T. Rex river raft scene from the original “Jurassic Park,” book be adapted into the movie.
One noticeable aspect of the dinosaurs is that there is an extreme size consistency issue, which, if you know the director, Gareth Edwards, well isn’t exactly a big surprise, as he often portrays creatures larger than they should be in films, with a major offender being his film “Godzilla,” from 2014. On the plus side, it’s a good movie to turn your brain off to and enjoy some dumb dinosaur action. However, if you go in expecting a serious film, you may leave disappointed.
