Jurassic World: Rebirth, the seventh film in the now 32-year-old franchise, has hit theaters. The movie takes place in the same world as the previous films but largely divorces itself from them.
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It introduces Ile Saint-Hubert, the third of the “Ingen islands,” where a mutated dinosaur species escapes from a research lab.
CinemaScore for #JurassicWorldRebirth coming in on lower end of franchise range.
A | 1993 | Jurassic Park
B+ | 1997 | Lost World
B- | 2001 | JP3A | 2015 | #JurassicWorld
A- | 2018 | JW Fallen Kingdom
A- | 2022 | JW Dominion
B | 2025 | JW Rebirth— Gitesh Pandya (TikTok @gitesh.pandya) (@GiteshPandya) July 3, 2025
Years later, Martin Krebs, an executive for the ParkerGenix pharmaceutical company, mounts an expedition to the island to obtain blood samples from three varieties of super-large specimens. He believes the dino blood will allow him to develop a wonder-drug for heart disease. Krebs brings along mercenary Zora Bennett, boat owner/pilot Duncan Kincaid, paleontologist Dr.
Henry Loomis, and weapons specialist Bobby Atwater.
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— Gitesh Pandya (TikTok @gitesh.pandya) (@GiteshPandya) June 30, 2025
Before they reach their destination, they are diverted to answer a mayday and are joined by four members of a family they rescue at sea: Reuben Delgado, his daughters Teresa and Isabella, and Teresa’s lazy boyfriend, Xavier. The film’s biggest innovation, the Distortus Rex, looks like the unholy union of a dinosaur and a xenomorph.
Director Gareth Edwards delivers several high-octane sequences, but there are too many scenes with characters wandering around the jungle.
Mutant dinosaurs and island expedition
Jurassic World Rebirth reportedly opened to an estimated $28 million on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, not including Tuesday previews.
This makes it the fourth-highest opening day in the Jurassic franchise. The film is tracking a $77.5 million 3-day total and a $127.5 million 5-day holiday weekend gross. With a projected $127.5M 5-day total, Rebirth is pacing below all earlier trilogy installments.
The film, released by Universal and Amblin, is screening in 4,308 theaters and holds a 53% critic score. Thirty-two years and six Jurassic iterations later, the initial wow factor of the original film is a distant memory. In Jurassic World: Rebirth, dinosaurs are treated by their human prey as barely more than inconvenient obstacles.
The movie introduces one of the least interesting contrivances in movie history: blood drawn from the three largest dinosaur species on a remote tropical island will produce a serum to cure human heart disease. This feeble plot suffices for the expedition to the island. Franchise filmmaking is generally an auteur-free zone, and Jurassic World: Rebirth suggests that the intellectual property so expensively vested in the franchise would benefit from some genetic modification.
