Jurassic World Rebirth2025

Reading how heavily Spielberg and Koepp were involved and how much research they did and how much they wanted to bring the series back to its roots. Also getting Gareth Edwards to direct, who also seemingly loved the script, this movie should have been a slam dunk. In the end, the film is so bad, Edwards should have had it credited to Alan Smithee.  Seriously, this movie’s dialogue is so bad, and its plot is so generic that the only thing you could call this movie is a waste of time. And there is almost none of the Gareth sauce in this film. Though apparently, he was hired based on his work on Godzilla, which is definitely the least in his filmography for me. But you also have to understand that so much of his signature look is the cinematographer he works with. And if you have a more generic cinematographer, you’re going to have a more generic film. Almost no wide establishing shots to give context to the world around. Nothing to really give scale to the D Rex or any of the other animals aside from the titanosaurus.  Edwards wanted the movie to be a metaphor for the film industry, but aside from the opening, almost nothing lends to the metaphor. He also wants us to sympathize with the Distortus Rex, but if that’s true, then we need at least one moment that puts us in a perspective other than it being a carnivorous monster. Like, yes, it’s grotesque, but it’s no more horrific than the existence of any other dinosaur.  Scarlett Johansson feels completely miscast here. And I am a certified Scarlett Johansson lover. They wanted Black Widow, but instead, we got just Scarlett Johansson? Every character feels somewhere from underbaked to completely raw. No thought went into who they each are as a person, and I’m pretty sure some don’t even have names.  This movie reminds me of Kong: Skull Island. But at least that movie had something to say, looked good, showed off its main creature, and had John C. Reilly.  At least this movie is better than Dominion, but that was an overblown legacy sequel mess, whereas this is a spiritual sequel mess.  Also, the director and the writer both talked about how easy it was to make this. Maybe that’s the problem right there.