By: Jesse Striewski
Just three years after the last Jurassic World entry, Dominion, executive producer Steven Spielberg concocts a new way to keep the series afloat with Rebirth, a definite improvement over not only said initial predecessor, but 2018’s Fallen Kingdom as well (even if it just treads more all-too familiar terrain)
The plot is nothing revolutionary; a team lead by a covert op expert (Scarlett Johansson), a paleontologist (Jonathan Bailey) and jack-of-all trades boat captain (Mahershala Ali) are all taped by a pharmaceutical company to collect some samples from dinosaurs on an island inhibited by uber dangerous mutant dinosaurs. Along the way they encounter and rescue a shipwrecked family (lead by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) before arriving to the island where the chaos fully ensues.
Much of the action sequences do offer some exciting and tense (albeit often predictable) moments, but the majority of the characters here are merely cookie-cutter. Even the admittedly easy-on-the-eyes Johansson can’t do much to help things out all that much here.
Still, Rebirth does contain all the makings of a summer blockbuster, and if escapist entertainment without much originality is what you’re looking for, it certainly delivers.
Rating: 2.5/5 Stars
