Dinosaurs have retreated to enclaves around the equator, since most of the climate is unsuitable for them. Martin recruits Zora, Henry, Duncan and others to go to Suriname and extract blood from the largest dinosaur species which could help a pharmaceutical company develop a cure for a heart disease. They manage to get a sample from Mosasaurus in the Ocean, but it attacks their ship and it crashes on the coastline. The crew, together with a family they saved from a boat, now has to travel through the jungle by foot, while being attacked by various dinosaurs. They manage to reach the location of the former laboratory, a helicopter arrives, but a mutant alien-Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur destroys it. Luckily, the crew manages to escape on a boat via the ocean.
The 7th film in the "Jurassic Park" franchise is a solid reboot, watchable, but once again shows what a genius piece of work the original 1st movie was—all the sequels after it copied its elements and plot devices. Many things that were already seen since the 1st film are again rehashed: in the opening, an assistant is killed by a runaway dinosaur in the park / laboratory; a man is ecstatic upon seeing an Apatosaurus in the meadow; a predator dinosaur is hunting a kid in a basement; a man with a signal torch is waving at a giant dinosaur to distract it from attacking a group of people... A strange feeling is sensed with the last couple of "Jurassic Park" movies—despite all the efforts of the crew on the technical level, everything is routine, everything is mundane, since it lacks the one crucial ingredient: inspiration. "Rebirth" is a cash grab, empty and mechanical—after a week, can you seriously remember a single character except for Scarlett Johansson's?—but to the director's credit, three moments are exciting and really well directed. One of them is a sly "Jaws" reference, namely the sequence where a family is sailing on a ship in the Ocean, until it is capsized by a giant Mosasaurus, so they have to climb up on an upside down side of the ship. Another good one is when a crew member urinates in the jungle, a Velociraptor is slowly creeping up behind him, but just then a Pterodactyl descends from above and flies away with the Velociraptor, in a lucky break for the man. Another semi-good one is the sequence where three people paddle on a boat on the river, while a T-Rex is running after them—when the T-Rex is up to his neck in water, this would have been an ideal ending to the sequence, but the authors unfortunately decided to add the ridiculous idea of it diving under the water, ruining it with outlandish nonsense. The finale with two mutant dinosaurs borders on trash, going unnecessary into speculative monster fiction, concluding a movie that works in its three thrills, but is one-dimensional in many other aspects.
Grade:+
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