Director Gareth Edwards, a student of ‘Jurassic Park,’ didn’t try to put his own spin on the franchise, but instead to emulate his hero.

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Gareth Edwards knows a thing or two about sci-fi films. And whether he’s creating his own unique worlds, like Monsters or The Creator, or working in someone else’s, like Godzilla or Rogue One, the director thinks one thing links the entire genre together.

Gareth Edwards rejects the silliness of the previous three films, directing a series of set-pieces that hew closer to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic.

Pointless to keep alive but impossible to kill, the "Jurassic" franchise returns for another loud nap of a new installment.

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,