NEW YORK (OSV News) – Some 35 years ago, author Michael Crichton pondered the disastrous implications of using DNA to revive various species of dinosaurs. Suffice it to say that the consequences of this ill-advised fictional project, as chronicled on screen across the decades, have borne little resemblance to an episode of “The Flintstones.”

David Koepp — screenwriter of the original 'Jurassic Park' — returns decades later with a new film that strives to return the franchise to its scary thrill-ride roots, and to be less, well, goofy: "I wanted to make dinosaurs special again.

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