Original Jurassic Park creator Michael Crichton gets an Easter egg tribute in Jurassic World Rebirth, but it's easy to miss.

Jurassic World Rebirth doesn’t reinvent the franchise, but delivers thrilling action with a smartly chosen contemporary cast. The plot, the motivations, the situations are silly and sometimes unthinking—such as feeding packaged candy to a tiny dinosaur. This latest instalment feels more like a repackaged fossil than a genuine resurrection.

While far from an uneven franchise’s worst, “Jurassic World Rebirth” has a peculiar sense of pacing and a grim endurance-test tone.