Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Nominated for Best Visual Effects    All right, we are in the homestretch.  The ceremony is tonight so I'm going to push out as many posts as I managed to get drafted during the week.

Zora (Scarlett Johansson) is a mercenary hired by a pharmaceutical company to get blood samples from some of the largest dinosaurs produced during the ill-fated Jurassic World theme park expansions.  She is assisted by Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), a paleontologist eager to see specimens up close.  But when they hear a mayday from a family whose sailboat was capsized by a mosasaur, the objectives change.

Talk about a series with diminishing returns.  This has an A-list cast spouting the most wooden, cliche-ridden dialogue, zero thrills, bland humor, and nowhere near enough gore to make up for all the above.  Unless you are seriously into the franchise, skip this one entirely.  It's basically Jurassic Park 3 but without the charm of Michael Jeter.

It does make a good point about how quickly we become inured to miracles but it's not worth sitting through just to hear that.  Also, it's part of the villain's monologue because of course it is.  When I watched it, it was streaming on Peacock but it has since moved to Netflix if you can't heed warnings and want to watch it anyway.