Jurassic Park III

***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.

## Good Qualities

1. The acting is very decent.
2. Alan Grant finally returns in this movie after his absence in *The Lost World.*
3. It has more action scenes, such as the scene of a plane crash, saving Eric from the bird attack.
4. In addition, the fight with the T-Rex and the Spinosaurus is pretty cool, even if it was pretty short.
5. The raptors are both menacing and nuanced, merely wanting to retrieve stolen eggs instead of the monstrous predecessors in the first two films, even avoiding attacks when possible and leaving without any fuss when they're given back.
6. More dinosaurs are seen in the movie and have more screen time. In addition to that, it is worth noticing that the movie also features a long scene with pteranodons, which were creatures that lived at the same time as dinosaurs.
7. The execution is way more swift and compact, without any sort of filler.
8. **Nobody move a muscle.**
9. Decent final battle with the Spinosaurus at the river.
10. A musical score stays faithful to the score of John Williams composed for the first movie and better suited for the tone of movie.
11. The premise of having the heroes, especially for Alan, to find Eric after 8 weeks living in the island is a pretty good premise.
12. It relies a lot less on scenes about dinosaurs killing humans, with only three deaths on screen against the many scenes of its prequel.

## Bad Qualities

1. Mediocre cinematography and the film feels more like a direct-to-DVD movie rather than a theatrical film.
2. The Jurassic Park theme sounds badly butchered.
3. The film doesn't connect as much with the first two. In fact, it feels more like a sequel to the original film.
4. There's little in the way of the film's morals against capitalism and corporate hubris as the first two.
5. 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 are frightening or hideous.
6. There's a major plot hole in which the earth-shakingly loud dinosaurs can somehow sneak up on people without a sound.
7. The film's ending wasn't very good, as 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 explains why nobody could call the army when Eric was in trouble.
	* When the film’s troubled production became common knowledge, it was revealed that the actor who plays Billy wasn’t happy with being killed off, and ended up persuading director Joe Johnston to keep him in the movie (probably in the hope of being used in a future installment). As such, Billy survives the pteranodon attack, despite the fact he clearly dies in that scene!
	* A group of Pteranodons that previously attacked the heroes were looking for a new nesting ground, and were flying towards the characters' homeland. Yet somehow the film treats this as a happy ending.
8. Poor effects in certain scenes.
9. The characters have problems:
	* Billy is mostly useless, and he ends up stealing eggs for money, which causes the group to be attacked more frequently.
	* Paul and Amanda Kirby are terrible parents and are very annoying to watch.
	* Cooper and Nash have no character or personality.
	* Ellie is very underutilized and is married to Mark instead of having her relationship with Dr. Grant be developed.
10. The runtime is a bit too short for a Jurassic Park film.
11. The infamous "What's a bad idea?" scene.

## Reception

Like with the previous film, Jurassic Park III received mixed reviews from critics and audiences with an 49% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes and the website's critical consensus reads: "Jurassic Park III is darker and faster than its predecessors, but that doesn't quite compensate for the franchise's continuing creative decline." It also received an average score of 42 out of 100 from Metacritic, along with an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale from CinemaScore and an 5.9/10 from IMDb. But fan reaction was mixed, many have praised the return of Sam Neil as Alan Grant, suspense pieces, and Don Davis' score, but majority criticisms were targeted at the fast pacing, Alan and Ellie not ending up together, the abrupt ending, being just a chase movie with no character development, and replacing T-Rex with Spinosaurus. Many paleontologists have criticized the Spinosaurus and T-Rex fight. With many pointing out that T-Rex would have won the fight, and Spinosaurus would loose.

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