Gareth Edwards directs Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey in this monster movie adventure reboot where mercenaries, suits, scientists and a stranded family go to another secret island full of dinosaurs.

Yeah… it involves gargantuans, slow plotting and melodrama but this is probably Edwards’ most anonymous work. They somehow crowbar a kid into it again. I don’t care about mutant dinosaurs. Quibbles aside, it does have a few good set pieces and Scarlett Johansson. Blatantly inessential but you could say that of every JP sequel since 1993.

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