Friday, August 08, 2025

Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)


You might say that Gareth Edwards was born to direct a Jurassic reboot (...or rebirth). 

His contributions, mainly in the extraordinary action sequences, are what makes this addition to the franchise so much fun, perhaps papering over the problems with plot and character, both in the main underdeveloped and under-utilised, even in the case of chuchitosaurus ('Dolores').

It's absurdly simple to predict precisely the munching order for the 'expendable' members of the ensemble.
A couple of smallish complaints that I'd level at Edwards are that he seems a bit better at composing mobile CGI beasties than static landscapes, and that in key moments his dinos seem rather sluggish and hesitant, as if they too have been handed the munch list and know who's on it and in which order they are to be snarfled.


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