Jurassic World: Rebirth

Writing one logline to describe all 7 of the Jurassic Park movies is easy. "Very Dangerous Dinosaurs are safely enclosed in cages, then something goes horribly wrong, and the Dinosaurs are released and they kill and eat people, and people run for their lives".

The 7th Jurassic Park movie, "Jurassic World: Rebirth," starts out with a scientist within a highly secure and state-of-the-art Dinosaur research facility dropping the wrapper of a Milky Way candy bar on the floor while entering a clean room. What follows is a disaster that turns off all the security in the facility, and once again, the Dinosaurs are released. The good news is that even though the main idea is exactly the same as the other six movies, this time around, this story has more imagination and even better special effects than the previous six.

This film starts 17 years after the security disaster, and there is a major medical science discovery where it is discovered that the blood of 3 specific dinosaurs might contain the cure for all heart disease for the entire world. The story then follows the obvious path as a major medical company, out for a trillion-dollar windfall, a scientist and two adventurers, including Zora Bennett, played by Scarlett Johansson, and her long-time friend Duncan Kincaid, played by Mahershala Ali, travel to this dangerous island to retrieve impossible-to-obtain dinosaur blood. There is the typical evil, only caring about money, representative of a medical company, trying to make trillions on this magic dinosaur blood Martin Krebs, played by Rupert Friend, is typical of the bad people we see in movies like this one.

The big surprise in this movie was the appearance of a father of two daughters Reuben Delgado, played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, who is the great lead actor in the very good Netflix series, 'The Lincoln Lawyer". Delgado's daughters are played by Audrina Miranda and Luna Blaise. Some of the most spectacular special effects in this movie involve Deglado, his two daughters, and their boat captain running for their lives, with many of the scenes infuriating because nobody would take some of the risks they do in this film.

The good news is that this seventh installment is better than most of the previous 4 movies with a better story, even though the reasons for the chaos are still the same.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings are an understandably low 51% because there is nothing new enough in this film that we have not seen before, other than the new types of genetically modified dinosaurs, especially one that looks like a combination of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and the creature from "Alien". Hopefully, this small step in the right direction will create better Jurassic movies in the future, because with the money involved, there will be many more movies like this one.