Overview

• The film premiered July 3 as the seventh entry in the Jurassic franchise and the fourth installment of the Jurassic World series.
• Director Gareth Edwards leads a star-studded cast including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali on a covert mission to obtain dinosaur DNA for a life-saving pharmaceutical.
• Protagonist Zora Bennett’s operation collides with a civilian family stranded on a dinosaur-infested island after a prehistorical aquatic predator attack.
• Critics are split over the film’s execution, with some praising its intelligent homage and visual spectacle and others faulting its familiar plot and muted emotional impact.
• Set in 2027, five years after Jurassic World Dominion, the story underscores an Earth where surviving dinosaurs are confined to isolated equatorial habitats.