Overview

• The film is on track for a $133 million domestic haul and a $260 million global total over its first five days, ranking among the season’s top openings.
• Under Gareth Edwards’s direction and David Koepp’s screenplay, it soft-reboots the series five years after Dominion and hints at a fresh trilogy.
• Scarlett Johansson leads a new ensemble—including Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali and Rupert Friend—on a covert expedition to Île Saint-Hubert to secure dinosaur biomaterial for revolutionary medicine.
• Critics applaud the movie’s practical effects, grounded horror tone and nods to John Williams’s original score while faulting its shallow character development.
• Grotesque hybrid creatures such as the Distortus Rex punctuate isolated island set pieces that emphasize suspense over blockbuster scale.