Jurassic Park III (2001)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) devoted his entire life to the study of dinosaurs, but he never thought he'd come face-to-face with them… again.

Eight years later, InGen's failure has caused public and private dinosaur research funding to become increasingly extinct. Desperate to fund research for his new theory of Velociraptor intelligence, Dr. Grant is particularly vulnerable when the wealthy adventurer Paul Kirby (William H. Macy) and his wife Amanda (Tea Leoni) approach him with a proposition. They will fund him if he will accompany them on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, the second InGen site…the quarantined island that has become a primordial breeding ground and a magnet for thrill-seekers eager to encounter them.

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User Comment: Ian Taylor Burr Ridge, IL. • After the entirely disappointing Jurassic Park: The Lost World (which, while not entirely bad, reached the point of goofy by the end), this movie is a refreshing return to many of the things that made the original so good. Spooky atmosphere, great dinosaur effects, and a rather simple, yet involving story all draw you in. The movie is indeed short, yet too much film can be just that. Any longer and the movie would've outgrown what it is, a thrill ride from start to finish. Joe Johnston, who did great work with Jumanji, really takes the movie and runs with it, and one really has to admire the filmmaking. In a world of movie cliches (which the end thankfully doesn't cave into) and drawn out action films trying to be something they aren't, Johnston has trimmed the fat, making JP3 a action-packed machine of a summer popcorn movie, and a movie that leaves you begging for more. If Johnston wants to do another one, I'd actually welcome it.

Summary: Significantly better than the second, as well as most of the summer "blockbusters"....

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