Jurassic World Rebirth (12A)

The Jurassic franchise continues to evade extinction in this seventh installment, as we go back to the basics of dinos chasing hapless people around an exotic island.

Leading the pack is Scarlett Johansson’s Zora Bennett, special-ops type with a speciality in procuring items of the dubiously legal variety. She’s been hired by pharmaceutical rep Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) to join palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis (the film’s standout, Jonathan Bailey) on an excursion to Suriname, and an old facility there that used to function as R&D for InGen, ie the people who made the OG Jurassic Park.

Their task is to collect a few samples of dino DNA that hold the key to curing coronary disease. Zora ropes in her old colleague Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), who has a boat. On the way, they receive a distress signal from a family seacraft.

But of course, it doesn’t take long before things go haywire and the larger carnivorous dinosaurs start eyeing up our characters for their next meal. Rebirth feels relaxed and sure-footed in its Spielberg pastiche, its big dino-jeopardy moments and its deployment of thrills and laughs.