Director Gareth Edwards recruits Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali for his dinosaur tale, which shamelessly borrows from Steven Spielberg’s 1993 hit.

Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali play dino-hunting special ops in the seventh "Jurassic Park" entry, now directed by "Godzilla's" Gareth Edwards.

But the “Jurassic” movies — of which the new film, “Jurassic World Rebirth,” is the seventh — have a particularly distinctive quality, something I rarely encounter in big-budget cinema. They’re action-packed and filled with peril,