Running in Circles with Raptors
In Jurassic World: Rebirth, dinosaurs roar, people scream, and originality is declared extinct. Again.
This latest entry in the franchise doesn't so much evolve as it loops-gracefully, beautifully, and utterly pointlessly. Yes, the dinosaurs look great (they always do). The jungles are lush, the explosions are big, and the camera never misses a chance to swoop dramatically over a CGI creature doing something predictably terrifying. But behind the spectacle? A story so familiar it might've been cloned from a 2015 script... which itself was cloned from 1993.
The characters are mostly there to gawk, run, and make suspiciously bad decisions. There's the usual evil biotech guy, the plucky kid, the brooding scientist, and a new dino hybrid that's even "more dangerous" than the last one (yawn). Any deeper themes-ethics, hubris, survival-are quickly trampled underfoot by the franchise's relentless devotion to... well, itself.
It looks fantastic and says absolutely nothing. Rebirth is less a resurrection and more a very expensive cinematic rerun. Life may find a way-but this franchise clearly hasn't.
This latest entry in the franchise doesn't so much evolve as it loops-gracefully, beautifully, and utterly pointlessly. Yes, the dinosaurs look great (they always do). The jungles are lush, the explosions are big, and the camera never misses a chance to swoop dramatically over a CGI creature doing something predictably terrifying. But behind the spectacle? A story so familiar it might've been cloned from a 2015 script... which itself was cloned from 1993.
The characters are mostly there to gawk, run, and make suspiciously bad decisions. There's the usual evil biotech guy, the plucky kid, the brooding scientist, and a new dino hybrid that's even "more dangerous" than the last one (yawn). Any deeper themes-ethics, hubris, survival-are quickly trampled underfoot by the franchise's relentless devotion to... well, itself.
It looks fantastic and says absolutely nothing. Rebirth is less a resurrection and more a very expensive cinematic rerun. Life may find a way-but this franchise clearly hasn't.
- christian-63768
- 31 jul 2025