Jurassic World Rebirth starts with a scientist accidentally dropping a Snickers wrapper. It’s a simple mistake that dooms the inhabitants of Ile Saint-Huber to death by mutant dinosaur, and makes for a tantalisingly straightforward setup for what’s to come.
At least, it should have. What comes next is almost an hour of exposition-heavy table-setting as director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, The Creator) contends with the fact that Rebirth is the seventh instalment in an extremely unwieldy franchise – one that, lest we forget, unleashed dinosaurs onto the entire world (Fallen Kingdom) only to tell a story about locusts (Dominion) – while also attempting to kickstart of a new Jurassic era.
