Overview

• Director Gareth Edwards has amplified the franchise’s horror elements, teasing scarier sequences and a mutated dinosaur threat called the Mutadon.
• Marketing for the July 2 release emphasizes a darker tone and a meta-aware narrative that acknowledges audience fatigue with dinosaurs.
• Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey lead a covert bio-heist mission to harvest DNA from the world’s largest and most dangerous prehistoric creatures.
• The production combines on-location practical effects filmed in Thailand with ILM’s CGI to deliver suspense-driven callbacks to the original Jurassic Park.
• Early reviews commend the film’s visuals and scares but flag underdeveloped characters and familiar narrative beats as its main drawbacks.