Review | Jurassic World Rebirth movie review: Scarlett Johansson in one of franchise’s best films
Jonathan Bailey and Rupert Friend co-star in this tense adventure that comes very close to capturing the magic of the original Jurassic Park
4/5 stars
Ever since Steven Spielberg’s masterly 1993 adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park, the franchise has strived, but never quite managed, to recapture that lightning-in-a-bottle moment.
This time the setting is Ile Saint-Hubert, a tropical locale where research for the original theme park was conducted, including experiments with genetically mutated dinosaurs.
While it is a place where “travel is expressly forbidden”, that does not stop Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), a private contractor hired by a pharmaceutical company, from going there to retrieve samples from three of the biggest dinosaurs left in existence.