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

“Jurassic World Rebirth” has nods to the past even as it cuts a new future with new characters. It’s a sort of heist movie with monsters that’s set on the original decaying island research facility for the original, abandoned Jurassic Park.

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