Review: Jurrasic Park Rebirth

Jurassic World Rebirth is now available digitally, and if you like your chaos in 4K UHD, Blu-ray, or good ol’ DVD form, mark your calendars: September 9, 2025, courtesy of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in collaboration with Amblin Entertainment.

So here it is: Jurassic World Rebirth, a film that doesn’t exactly surprise, but roars, sometimes predictably, but often satisfyingly. It’s like cracking open a cold one with your best pal who tells the same jokes every time... and you still laugh because, hell, familiarity is primo comfort.

The Meat of the Bones

This entry is rooted in good, ambitious craftsmanship. Gareth Edwards and screenwriter David Koepp (who co-wrote the original Jurassic Park) steer us back to simpler thrills. People lost, dinos prowling, tension rising, with a glossy sheen and zero pretense. The visual finesse alone, from golden-hour glints to smoky flare-lit skies, is downright dazzling.

Horror-Adjacent Pulses

There’s something deliciously “wrong” hiding behind the CGI, a mutated, twisted Distortus rex driven by sympathy and fear, and a chilling bat-like Mutadon whose stick-the-landing reveal will whisper “predator” in your ear. That’s your horror spark right there—when what you see doesn’t let you look away.

The Good Stuff

• Spectacle & Nostalgia: It throws back to the awe of the original without drowning in nostalgia, more a respectful tip of the hat, less a parade.

• Strong New Faces: Scarlett Johansson brings fire as Zora Bennett, and the new cast, Ali, Bailey, packs charisma enough to make you care, however lightly.

• Score: Alexandre Desplat’s orchestral work is lush and layered, softly echoing John Williams while leaving its own footprint, though at times it’s buried under roars and mayhem.

The Weak Bits

• Formula Fatigue: The lack of narrative bravery, too many mid-lingering dialogue scenes, two clunky half-plots jostling for space. It’s all familiar beats with little deviation.

• Predictability: This isn’t reinventing the dinosaur. It’s more like a robust remix.

• Emotional Thinness: That stranded family subplot is a narrative speed bump that doesn't add much beyond a reminder that kids + dinos = highest stakes, lowest gain.

Critical Consensus

Mixed-to-mildly-positive. Rotten Tomatoes has it sitting at a 53% critics score, meh, but not extinct. CinemaScore audiences gave it a solid B, a Jurassic crowd pleaser. Some reviews hail it as the first good one in ages, a return to form; others see it as puffed-up dinosaur popcorn with wobbly bones.

In the end, Jurassic World Rebirth is less about breaking new ground and more about stomping confidently across familiar territory. It delivers the spectacle fans expect, peppered with enough eerie, horror-adjacent moments to keep genre lovers leaning forward. While it may not dig deep emotionally or rewrite the franchise’s DNA, it offers a polished, entertaining ride that proves there’s still life. Ferocious, fanged, and just a little bit sinister in these prehistoric giants.