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We’ve once again returned to a world where dinosaurs rule the Earth – or at least a few small tropical islands around the equator. Jurassic World Rebirth shows how the world has adapted to having some prehistoric monsters running around, and it is mainly with unmitigated apathy. The Jurassic Park franchise has come a long way from being about the dangers of unbridled capitalism and how nature fights back against mankind’s attempts to control it – now it is about how unaffordable healthcare is too.

What happens in the Jurassic World Rebirth ending?

The entire plot of Jurassic World Rebirth revolves around a group of mercenaries on a mission to find three blood samples from giant dinosaurs to find the cure to human heart disease. It is pseudo-science at its best (dinosaurs had big hearts, so that should help us study ours, right?) but it serves to get people on the island. After trekking across the island where InGen made their weirdest dinosaur hybrids and collecting the samples they need, the team heads to a helipad where they can await extraction.

Unfortunately, Zora (Scarlett Johansson), Duncan (Mahershala Ali), and the rest of the human characters end up running into the aforementioned hybrid dinosaurs. A group of flying raptors called Mutadons stalk them before the helicopter is destroyed by the D-Rex from the opening sequence. Reuben and his family, who were stranded on the island when a giant dinosaur capsized their boat, hide in the sewers below the helipad and make their way to a boat that can take them off the island. After the D-Rex stalks the group to the boat, they only end up escaping because Martin, a representative from the pharmaceutical company financing the expedition, crashes his car into the D-Rex as he tries to escape the island and Duncan distracts the mutated T-Rex with a flare, Ian Malcolm-style.

Somehow, Duncan escapes the D-Rex off-screen and reconvenes with the rest of the group before they sail away from the island with the samples. Zora has a change of heart and decides to make the dino samples open source, effectively making the cure for heart disease cheap and affordable for the entire world, as they sail into the sunset.

Who survives and who dies to the end of Jurassic World Rebirth?

It’s a Jurassic Park movie, so there are plenty of deaths from start to finish. An unnamed scientist is killed by the D-Rex in the prologue because he dropped his Snickers wrapper and it got clogged in a door’s fan (we’re not kidding). Then, Bobby, the gun-toting member of Zora’s mercenary team played by Ed Skrein, is killed on their approach to the island and Nina (Philippine Velge) is killed shortly after they land on the beach. Both are killed by Spinosaurus in the movie’s first act.

It isn’t until the end of the second act that anyone else dies. The French-speaking member of Zora’s team is eaten by a Quetzalcoatlus as they extract the sample from one of its eggs. Finally, Martin dies near the end of the film when he drives his car into the D-Rex and is eaten shortly after.

All in all, a fairly low body count. So, who survives until the final credits of Jurassic World Rebirth?

• Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson)
• Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali)
• Henry Loomis (Johnathan Bailey)
• Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo)
• Teresa Delgado (Luna Blaise)
• Xavier Dobbs (David Iacono)
• Isabella Delgado (Audrina Miranda)

Is there set-up for a Jurassic World: Rebirth sequel?

The Jurassic Park franchise has been going for more than three decades and, unlike the dinosaurs, shows no signs of dying. While there are no real hooks to set up a fifth Jurassic World movie, the world is presented in a way that more movies could be made. The equator has effectively become the territory of dinosaurs after it turns out the climate and atmosphere for most of the planet is no longer habitable to them. That means that there are ample tropical islands that can be populated with dinosaurs for unsuspecting people to visit.

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