one of the most perfect movies of all time with “Jurassic Park” in 1993, the franchise has never managed to achieve anything but increasingly diminishing returns. Sure, the first two sequels at least presented cool ideas and incredible set pieces that are still fondly remembered today — The raptors in the tall grass? The Pteranodon jump scare? — but the “Jurassic World” movies have just been a series of cool ideas immediately tossed aside and ignored.
“Jurassic World Dominion” was obviously the movie most guilty of this, as it somehow ignored the idea of dinosaurs roaming the Earth freely and instead dedicated its plot to a nonsensical story involving prehistoric bugs. Now, “Jurassic World Rebirth” tries to course correct by going back to basics and just pitting humans against dinosaurs on a tropical island. The plot involves a group of mercenaries (which kind of betrays the core message of the franchise by asking the audience to root for mercenaries) hired by a pharmaceutical rep to steal dinosaur DNA to provide data for a medical treatment that would cure all heart disease forever.
“Jurassic World Rebirth” does some things right, mostly by ignoring almost everything that the “Jurassic World” trilogy did wrong. It also ignores the one big, bonkers, game-changing idea from “Fallen Kingdom” that could render the entire plot of this movie moot — the existence of human cloning.
