After suffering through Jurassic World: Dominion, I vowed that I would never see another movie in the franchise but the trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth looked really intriguing to me (it actually featured dinosaurs!) so I went to see it last night with my sister. There are definitely some flaws but I think it is one of the best sequels to the original movie and I enjoyed it. The Earth's environment proves to be inhospitable to the dinosaurs so most of them have either died or relocated to tropical areas near the Equator. Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend), a representative of the pharmaceutical company ParkerGenix, recruits covert operatives Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) as well as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) to retrieve DNA samples from the three largest species of dinosaurs for use in a drug that could potentially prevent coronary disease. The group is tracking a Mosasaurus in the Atlantic Ocean when they are called to rescue the Delgado family, including Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), his daughters Teresa (Luna Blaise) and Isabella (Audrina Miranda), and Teresa's ne'er-do-well boyfriend Xavier Dobbs (David Iacono), after their boat is destroyed by a Mosasaurus. The team is able to rescue the Delgados and retrieve a sample but they are also attacked and shipwrecked on an island that was once used as a secret research facility for creating mutant dinosaurs. Chaos ensues as they attempt to collect the remaining samples and evade the terrifying new dinosaurs created in the lab. The cast does a great job and, even though the story follows the same beats as all of the other movies in the franchise, I liked the new characters. The action sequences with the dinosaurs are spectacular! The scenes showing the Delgados being chased by a Tyrannosaurus rex down a river in an inflatable raft and the team as they are confronted by a Distortus rex when trying to leave the island are absolutely terrifying but I also really felt the awe exhibited by Loomis and Bennett when they encounter a Titanosaurus and the Aquilops befriended by Isabella provides a bit of comic relief. The biggest problem I had is the pacing because in between all of the dinosaurs there is a lot of dialogue in which the characters learn very important lessons (such as big pharma is bad and Xavier is actually good) and my mind would sometimes wander. This is not quite as good as the original but is so much better than its predecessor and I recommend it as a fun summer blockbuster.