Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
Posted: November 10, 2025
I’m giving this one an approval rating only because like most other people I’m a huge fan of the original Jurassic Park and want to give this one the benefit of the doubt. It does have a fair amount of action and the special effects are mostly well done. Other than that there’s not a lot holding this one together.
In this episode we see a pharmaceutical rep (Rupert Friend) hire a team led by a mercenary of sorts (Scarlett Johansson) to extract DNA samples from three of the largest dinosaurs alive in order to create a new drug which will treat heart disease. For some reason they need one dinosaur from the sea, one from the air, and one from land. The reason everyone here agrees to accept this dangerous mission is to make a boatload of cash offered by the Pharma company.
Along the way to a remote area near the equator which is the only place dinosaurs can still survive, they are sidetracked by a mayday call from a family whose boat has capsized. The family, a father, his two daughters, and the eldest daughter’s boyfriend, are a mere 28 miles away. That’s not suspicious at all. In the vastness of the world’s oceans, they are somehow in virtually the same spot as this covert team in an extremely isolated region. Give me a break. Further, the daughter’s boyfriend is completely disrespectful to the father and easy to hate. They try to develop his character throughout to make him likable by the end, but it’s hard to believe he would have ever been invited in the first place. I mean, we’re not talking about a weekend camping trip here, we’re talking about sailing across the ocean.
Things go haywire from there and everyone ends up on the island fighting to survive and find a way home. There are some exciting scenes, notably when the eldest daughter sneaks past a sleeping T-rex to secure a life raft for the family to head down the river. Somehow you can’t see this giant dinosaur over the grass until it rolls over and starts to wake up (another flaw) but once it chases them down the river it’s quite thrilling.
One of the things that I could’t stop thinking throughout this movie is that I need to find the glasses that Dr. Loomis wears (by the way…I feel like the name “Dr. Loomis” is reserved for a certain horror franchise and shouldn’t have been used). Not once during this film, after crash landing, wading through the jungle, falling 40 feet into a river, and more, did I ever see him need to wipe off his glasses for getting dirty. Those must be some kind of magic glasses.
As I’m suggesting, there are plenty of flaws with this movie that can be hard to overlook, but there are some good things as well. There are a few shots that harken back to the original film which is nice for nostalgia’s sake. For example, the car mirror reading “objects are closer than they appear”, the banner in the museum, or the scene where they are in the convenience store and the youngest girl pulls herself into the refrigerated section to hide.
I wasn’t a big fan of the Chris Pratt led Jurassic Park movies, though the last one finally got pretty good. This one is along those lines. It was a nice change of pace from those films, but overall it was much of the same in terms of action and story. If you are a fan of dinosaurs or big summer blockbusters or are thinking of watching it because you liked the original, go ahead and give it a watch. It’s not going to present anything new or unexpected, but it’ll scratch your dino-itch.
Oh and I have to say, I didn’t much care for the mutant final boss dinosaur. It looked more like a creature from Alien than a dinosaur. They should have done better with that. Oh well.
Overall Verdict: You aren’t going to get anything new with this iteration of Jurassic Park, but it is energetic enough to keep you entertained throughout.
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