Jurassic World Rebirth review: A stellar, spectacular and sumptuous creature carnage

Jurassic World Rebirth review: A stellar, spectacular and sumptuous creature carnage

‘Jurassic World Rebirth’: Majestic creatures, awe-inspiring visuals and an edge-of-the-seat experience – the latest standalone sequel of ‘Jurassic World’ achieves the crest of cinematic ecstasy, packaged as a conquest covering the three realms of Earth.

Jurassic World Rebirth movie review

Rebirth's premise resounds and resonates with the previous instalments of the Jurassic franchise – a rogue Dino wreaks havoc in a facility that hubs multiple mutation-related experiments and situated in an island, forcing the personnel to abandon it. 17 years later, when these creatures are on an diminishing mode and relegated to the areas around the equator, a team comprising a Pharma Cos executive (Rupert Friend), an ex-mercenary (Scarlett Johansson) and a paleontologist (Jonathan Bailey) gathers three more guys to lead their mission to collect the bio-samples from the three largest specimens of these prehistoric animals.

Director Gareth Edwards fashions Rebirth as a thriving adventure – with a staggering coverage of sea, land and the air, making it a quintessential visual spectacle. The Godzilla-director acquaints you with his scale and ambition right from the first segment of the expedition where he introduces the gigantic aquatic Mosasaurus which has wrecked the ship of a family of four on a vacation - Reuben (Manuel Garcia), his daughters Teresa (Luna Blaise) and little Isabella (Audrina Miranda), and Teresa’s boyfriend, Xavier (David Lacono).

While the family unites with the team to escape the carnivores’ carnage, greed and goodness collide, making Rebirth a subtle reminder of ethics and the guiding principles of man vs nature. If you fiddle with nature, it retaliates and hunts for you. Rebirth offers a barrage of urgent moments, exquisitely crafted set pieces and adorned with awe-inspiring shots of the meticulous CGI-designed creatures. Some moments even choke you and move you deeply – the emotions resonate with Baileys when he feels the majestic limbs of the terrestrial Titanosaurus. 

A supply of humour from the love-hate relation between Reuben and Xavier and Isabella’s fondness with the cute Dolarus overcomes the clichéd greed vs goodness and the conflicts inherent to the stereotypes mission-template of this enterprise. But the real horror comes from the team’s encounter with the wild arial Quetzalcoatlus – the hunt and the chases evolve into sheer crescendo of excitement. The actors’ ensemble performed earnestly, but I hardly found them mourning when their fellow colleagues succumbed to beast feasts. Scarlett leads the team, with a charming authority making Rebirth a consistently watchable fare.