Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey and Rupert Friend
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Runtime: 133 mins. Reviewed in Jul 2025
Reviewer: Peter W Sheehan
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An expedition force needs to extract DNA from prehistoric creatures to help create a medical breakthrough that might save lives.
The film is written by David Koepp and is a sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022). It is the fourth ‘Jurassic World’ film, and the seventh instalment in the ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise. Photography for the film was conducted in Thailand, Malta and the UK.
Earth’s atmosphere has become largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. As a result, the few prehistoric animals that remain exist in isolated equatorial environments. Zora Bennett (Johansson) leads a team consisting of Dr Loomis (Bailey),and Duncan Kincaid (Ali) to locate three large remaining prehistoric animals. Their mission is to extract biomaterials from the animals to provide drugs a pharmaceutical company believes could save human lives. An island holding the three animals is located, but it happens to be home to mutated dinosaurs that have thrived in isolation for decades. Living among the animals is a huge alien-like Tyrannosaurus Rex, and other vicious animals.
This film captures a resurgence of interest in prehistoric animals as evidenced by multiple popular Internet programs world-wide. Some of these programs are narrated by respected truth-searching luminaries such as Richard Attenborough, who takes care to recreate animals in his TV programs so as to deliver absorbing presentations of scientific interest.
This film has a different impact. It has created a world for which there is no scientific evidence. This is also the first film in the Jurassic franchise that doesn’t include actors who have returned from previous instalments. The created imagery, however, is visually stunning with lush jungles and fierce animals. In the union of horror and thrills that occurs in this movie, thrills ultimately win and solid tension holds, but too often the movie moves into Jaws: Nigersaurus-style to sustain its impact.
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