Jurassic World: Rebirth 4K Ultra HD Review

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Jurassic World Rebirth Review: Return to the Island Formulaic

Returning with Jurassic World: Rebirth, a 2025 sci-fi action movie directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, The Creator) and penned by original Jurassic Park writer David Koepp, the Jurassic franchise comes back. Promising a back-to-basics approach, the movie strands a new cast of characters on a dangerous island filled with prehistoric creatures and genetic abominations. Although the set components provide the expected spectacle, Rebirth has trouble changing the series’ DNA, ultimately seeming like a visually spectacular yet sadly familiar and frequently drab repasting of prior experiences.

A great cast and a compelling idea.

Three years after the events of Dominion, Jurassic World: Rebirth sees dinosaurs mostly restricted to equatorial areas. On a mission to a secretive island research facility, the story centers on a team led by ex-operative Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey). Extracting essential biomaterials from the biggest surviving dinosaurs in the planet to create a revolutionary medical therapy is their aim. Their aim is complex when they save a shipwrecked family, which forces both groups to cooperate to live through the several dangers of the island.

On paper, the ensemble is very good. Johansson brings a grounded, able presence to her part; Mahershala Ali is naturally charming as team leader Duncan Kincaid; Manuel Garcia-Rulfo offers a realistic Emotional core as the protecting father, Reuben Delgado. Though the actors give their all with the material, the characters are primarily archetypes we have previously seen—the sarcastic mercenary, the greedy corporate suit (the honest scientist Rupert Friend is granted very little unique depth to investigate).

Spectacular but predictable action sequences

Renowned for scale and mood, Gareth Edwards meets the basic premise of the movie: huge, terrifying dinosaurs. Without doubt, the action scenes are the strongest point. Edwards’ trademark day-for-night shooting creates a noticeable sense of fear during a nighttime attack by the aquatic Mosasaurus, tense and visually amazing. Some truly terrifying scenes result from the introduction of the new mutant enemy, the six-legged “Distortus rex,” and a scene including a cliff-side temple and a protective Quetzalcoatlus is dramatically carried out.

Managed by Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects are superb. The creatures feel heavy and actual, perfectly incorporated into the rich on-site filming in Malta and Thailand. Fans searching just dinosaur mayhem will find Rebirth offers several set pieces of the best of the series.

A Lack of Originality and Franchise Fatigue

The failure of Jurassic World: Rebirth to add anything fresh to the 30-year-old series is where it really fails. Though there’s a new director and cast, the narrative beats seem all too familiar. The idea of extracting dinosaur DNA for business benefit, the pessimistic executive who compromises the mission, the stranded family unit, and the island escape story seem particularly familiar — The Lost World: Jurassic Park — all strongly reflect motifs and structures from earlier movies.

Though a nice gesture to the show’s beginnings, the comeback of author David Koepp paradoxically adds to this enormous sense of déjà vu. Although the movie attempts to distinguish itself from the worldwide narrative of the World trilogy, it feels like a “greatest hits” compilation instead of a daring fresh beginning. Though a fresh idea, the central medical MacGuffin is rapidly superseded in favor of conventional running and shrieking; it does not provide a strong enough justification. to be told for this specific tale.

Stretches that Drag and Problems with Pacing

Apart from its main action beats, Jurassic World: Rebirth often gets rather tedious. Often expository and pragmatic, the characters’ conversations lack the intelligence or intellectual heft of the original movie. Particularly the center act falls under the weight of repetitive “walking through the jungle” scenes and expected jump scares.

Though only scratching the surface before hurrying to the next chase scene, the movie presents intriguing concepts including the public’s declining interest in dinosaurs and the ethical ramifications of genetic research. This inability to create its own ideas or characters in a significant manner leads to an experience that seems overlong and dull, leaving viewers wanting, and waiting impatiently for the next surge of activity to relieve the narrative lulls.

Final Verdict: A Stunning But Forgettable Chapter

Although it provides on spectacle, Jurassic World: Rebirth is a skillfully created monster movie that falters on inventiveness. Gareth Edwards’ direction gives scenes of incredible scale and anxiety, and the A-list cast does what it can with poorly written parts. But a derivative screenplay that reprises established ground without adding anything concrete to the Jurassic mythology finally limits the movie. The gaps between action scenes are usually uninteresting and predictable, therefore drawing attention to a series obviously suffering from creative fatigue. Though it’s a perfectly fine summer blockbuster, for a show on evolution it seems aggravatingly sluggish.

The Video

Jurassic World: Rebirth bucks the trend of digitally shot movies by being shot on 35mm Kodak Vision3 50D 5203 and Vision3 500T 5219 film stock with ARRI and Panavision cameras. It is presented on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in a 2.39:1 HEVC 2160p (4K UHD) Dolby Vision encodement. The transfer is excellent with a clean and organic, filmic layer of consistent grain. There is palpable detail and sumptuous texture in the image that helps even the CG dinosaurs look more 3D. Unfortunately, the Dolby Vision/HDR doesn’t bring much to the image. It is quite dim, barely passing SDR territory. Specular highlights don’t pop much and colors, while they are vibrant at times, aren’t anything stunning.

The Audio

This is where it’s at for this release. The lossless Dolby Atmos mix is big and bodacious, with booming low range in the footsteps of those dinos, lots of overhead action from helicopters and the din of the jungle, and excellent use of the surrounds as well. Dialogue is crisp, full, and clear as well, and the score balances in the overall mix robustly.

The Supplements

Universal includes much of the sort of typical featurettes here, mostly feelgood EPK-type interviews, plus a filmmaker’s audio commentary. We also get the included feature Blu-ray and Movies Anywhere digital code.

Bonus Features:

• Blu-ray with Feature Film and Bonus Features
• Movies Anywhere Digital Code
• Feature Commentary with Director Gareth Edwards, Production Designer James Clyne, and First Assistant Director Jack Ravesncroft
• Feature Commentary with Director Gareth Edwards, Editor Jabez Olssen, and Visual Effects Supervisor David Vickery
• Alternate Opening
• Deleted Scenes
• Jurassic World Rebirth: Hatching a New Era
• Gag Reel
• Meet Delores
• Munched: Becoming Dino Food
• A Day at Skywalker Sound
• Hunting For Easter Eggs

The Final Assessment

Jurassic World: Rebirth makes for excellent home theater fodder given its reference picture quality and audio mix, but the lackluster plot and pacing are perhaps one of the dullest entries in the dino dynasty.

Jurassic World: Rebirth is out on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital September 9, 2025 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Details

• Rating Certificate: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence/action, bloody images, some suggestive references, language and a drug reference.)
• Studios & Distributors: Universal Pictures | Amblin Entertainment | Dentsu | India Take One Productions | Latina Pictures | SKY Studios | Taiwan Film Center | The Kennedy/Marshall Company | Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)
• Director: Gareth Edwards
• Written By: David Koepp | Michael Crichton
• Run Time: 134 Mins.
• Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
• Video Format: HEVC 2160p (4K UHD)
• HDR Format: Dolby Vision (HDR10 Compatible)
• Primary Audio: English Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Compatible)
• Secondary Audio: Spanish DD 7.1 | French DD 7.1
• Subtitles: English SDH | Spanish | French
• Street Date: 9 September 2025