Jurassic World Rebirth betrays franchise with a horrible choice

This article contains spoilers For “Jurassic World Rebirth”.

“Jurassic World Rebirth” is a strange film. On the one hand, it is a lean and consecutive Dino film and is certainly better than the atrocity which was “Jurassic World Dominion”. On the other hand, it is always a rather disappointing film and illustrates the limits inherent in the greatest franchise “Jurassic” with its fundamental and dull intrigue and its uninteresting characters.

At worst, “Rebirth” shares many similarities with the worst impulses of American Monsterverse films. More specifically, he spends too much time focusing on humans rather than the public of creatures is there to see. It also feels the need to force certain characters of useless children in history, which mainly ends up distracting things that are in fact fun and cool.

Even in its best, however, “Rebirth” has trouble doing a lot with its most fascinating concepts, like an island full of mutant dinosaurs. But more than that, he commits a cardinal sin that betrays the largest “Jurassic” property. The writer David Koepp should better know, since he wrote the first two films of the franchise, but for any reason, he makes the “heroes” of “Renaissance” – that is to say that the public of the characters is supposed to worry and sympathize – the type of individuals who would have been the wicked in any other film “Jurassic”.

In “Jurassic World Rebirth”, we follow Zora Bennett (Scarlet Johansson), an expert in secret operation, while he is assembling a team to go to the island that was used to experiment on new mutant dinosaurs before the opening of Jurassic World. Their mission: to collect Dino blood samples which could contain the key to possible vital medicine. Said crew consists of Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), Bobby Atwater (Ed Skrein), Leclerc (Bechir Sylvain) and Nina (Philippine Velge), who are all paying by the pharmaceutical representative Martin Krebs (Ami Rupert).

The only person of the team who No A mercenary is Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), a paleontologist who used to work under Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and the heart and soul of the team. In order to compensate for the rest of the crew, Loomis is not only a dinosaur nerd; It is the purest soul of all the franchise, an extremely innocent guy who thinks they can easily not deliver blood samples to the great gourmet pharmaceutical guy and instead, the data they find and allow the drugs that change the world to be available for everyone.

Really, Loomis must be exceptionally good to compensate for what is undoubtedly the worst group of protagonists from a “Jurassic” film. The fact that they are all mercenaries, people who worked in war areas or individuals who have engaged in sabotage (and who knows what else), and who are extremely agree to simply kill dinosaurs goes against everything that “Jurassic” films speak.

The “Jurassic” films have always been on humanity playing God and abusing world and natural animals. In “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”, each soldier and mercenary is brutally killed in a satisfactory way, and we, as a public, are supposed to hate them. Even in the original “Jurassic Park”, Bob Peck’s game guard, Robert Muldoon, is memorable by velociraptors. Of course, he helped the main characters and saved Ellie Sattler de Laura Dern, but he is still a hunter and is shot down by his own prey.

As bad as the previous films “Jurassic World” could (and do it), they understood it at least, and each mercenary, hunter, trafficker and even soldier in these mutilated, devoured, gorged or clawed films by dinosaurs. The only exception is Owen Grady (Chris Prat), a former member of the American navy who, from the first day, is against any use of animals as weapons or goods.

“Rebirth”, on the other hand, has nothing to say about its distribution of mercenaries. As surprised or intimidated as Loomis is when he learns their past, he does not share any opinion on the issue. The only time the public is encouraged to make a judgment to Atwater, who actively wants to kill one or two Dino simply because he can. Koepp even feels the need to give tragic stories to Zora and Duncan in order to make them more sympathetic to the public, as if having lost people they like makes their preceding actions previous more acceptable.

This is why the end of the theatrical cup of “Renaissance” feels so fallacious, because it supposes that the public would feel bad if one of the people who would be the bad guys in another film “Jurassic” had died. It is good to change the formula after seven films. It is quite another thing to abandon the basic themes and the message of all the franchise to try to bring the public to worry about a group of bad guys.

“Jurassic World Rebirth” is currently playing in theaters.