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‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Review: Scarlett Johansson In Spielbergian Reboot That Is Part ‘Jaws’, ‘Skull Island’ & ‘Indiana Jones’ Mixed With The Pure DNA Of 1993 Original
A review of 'Jurassic World Rebirth' starring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, seventh installment of the dinosaur franchise returns to remote island.
But even with that EP title, make no mistake, Spielberg’s fingerprints are all over it as he (and his Amblin’ team including director Gareth Edwards) reunited with screenwriter David Koepp who wrote the first two Jurassic World films and have concocted another winner with all the elements that made this such a blockbuster series in movies and Universal theme parks. Add to the mix the team of the sea-going Essex including skipper and Soldier Of Fortune Duncan Kincaid ( Mahershala Ali) and his crew (Ed Skrein, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain) as they travel to this remote island to get the three key samples through special injections. This takes up much of the first half of the picture, and you wouldn’t be wrong to think you were suddenly watching Jurassic Jaws as it allows the franchise to hit the open sea for a change and unquestionably resembles that 1975 Spielberg classic for a long while, that is until they all wind up on shore in what has the feel of a kind of Skull Island meets Swiss Family Robinson
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