Blog:Jurassic Park III (Stephen's Opinion)

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Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film and the third installment in the Jurassic Park film series. The film stars Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, and Michael Jeter.

Plot
After being persuaded by a wealthy businessman to conduct an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's second site for a failed Jurassic Park experiment, Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) discovers the true reason for his invitation. A tragic accident maroons the party of seven, and they must attempt to escape with their lives.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The main issue that the story feels more like a rehash to the second film, although they're some elements that are are not shown in the first two movies.
 * 2) Sometimes, the movie breaks its own logic, one of the worst examples is the designers can never seem to do a dinosaur design that works out. The dinosaurs that are supposed to be threatening are either pretty useless or unintentionally cute, and the dinosaurs that are supposed to be harmless and frightening or hideous.
 * 3) Plot holes, plot holes everywhere:
 * 4) *Eric explains he followed Mr.Kirby's cell phone jingle. Then they turn around to see a Spinosaurus standing there. It would have been impossible for the Spinosaurus to have gotten there unnoticed since a T-Rex creates impact tremors with every step when it walks and a Spinosaurus is bigger, according to Grant, than a T-Rex.
 * 5) **What's more, It is also impossible for it to have been there the whole time since no one seemed to notice it standing there.
 * 6) *The food in the vending machines has been there for many years, not refrigerated or preserved, yet the candy bars and chips they take are not melted and edible.
 * 7) *Predators hunt to get a meal. But the dinosaurs chase the surviving humans rather than staying to eat one they have already killed. (Food which scavengers would be likely to get if they leave it.)
 * 8) *One of the major plot holes of all is which the earth-shakingly loud dinosaurs can somehow sneak up on people without a sound.
 * 9) The characters aren't all that interesting, or all that likable, and almost non of the newer characters are well developed for may reasons:
 * 10) *Billy Brennan for some reason carries a parachute on land for the whole movie, just so he could use it towards the end.
 * 11) *Eric Kirby is the usual child of some kind of divorce (which has already been done by Lex and Tim Murphy in the first film and Kelly Malcolm in The Lost World)
 * 12) *Amanda Kirby screams way too much to the point where it becomes annoying.
 * 13) *Paul Kirby is a timid paint salesman who tricks a team of mercenaries and captures Grant to rescue Eric from his wife's boyfriend.
 * 14) Some of the characters return from the previous film but not with the charm the previously had.
 * 15) *Alan Grant from the first film, while not being flanderized, he almost didn't have the charisma he previously had.
 * 16) *Laura Dern makes a minor role as Ellie Sattler that's pretty phoned in. (no pun intented)
 * 17) Even by sci-fi movie standards, the vocal chords of a velociraptor shouldn't make it easily possible for a human to effectively speak like the cunning dinosaur in an efficient enough manner to trick a pack of them into thinking there’s another raptor somewhere who needs help.
 * 18) The movie only involves that the main characters trying to find a lost boy who was stuck on the island of Isla Sorna in 8 weeks, yet the movie boils down to a lot of filler.
 * 19) The film's runtime is way too short, with only approximately 92 minutes (the shortest film of the Jurassic Park series), which it makes the whole movie feels insanely rushed, and anti-climatic, almost as if the filmmakers said: "This is going on too long, let's wrap it up".
 * 20) Very bad cinematography, the whole cinematography feels more like a direct-to-video and/or made for TV movie.
 * 21) The ending. It has various army tanks and helicopters show up to rescue the characters. This also doesn't make a lot of sense, since it's never explained anybody couldn't call the army when Eric was in trouble.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Don Davis' soundtrack is very faithful to the score of John Williams composed for the first movie and better suited for the tone of the movie.
 * 2) It has more action scenes, such as the scene of a plane crash, saving Eric from the bird attack, unlike the less action in the second film.
 * 3) Decent final battle with the Spinosaurus at the river, even though it was rushed.
 * 4) Alan Grant from the first film is back!
 * 5) Nobody move a muscle.
 * 6) It doesn't have much of pointless, and boring dialogues in this film, unlike in the second film.
 * 7) The dinosaurs do get a lot of screentime, unlike the second film.

Reception
The film received fairly mixed-to-negative from critics, audiences, and fans alike, with a 49% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 182 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The site's consensus states; "Jurassic Park III is darker and faster than its predecessors, but that doesn't quite compensate for the franchise's continuing creative decline." Metacritic scores a film a 42/100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". It is the lowest-rated film of the Jurassic Park franchise until Jurassic World Dominion, which received an even worst reception than III received. Many fans of the series were angry over the death of the T-rex and replacing as a Spinosaurus as the new dinosaur antagonist than the T-Rex in the first two movies.

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