Our Movie Reviews Jurassic Park III
Release Year: 2001
Average Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
Last Reviewed On: December 19, 2001 (by Scott)
(DVD version)


Michelle's Review:
2 out of 5 stars on December 19, 2001

I was really hoping this movie would be better then this. I wasn't even expecting greatness, just an adequately fun movie. Unfortunatly, it didn't live up to my low expectations.

I am not a big fan of sequels. Oh sure, I have enjoyed many. Batman, Superman, Star Wars... But with the exception of the previous, sequels almost never live up to the original. Hollywood has become so obsessed with the ticket sales just off of pure hype, they don't even care if the movie is any good or not. They make a sequel anyway. And these days, they are even making sequels before the original even comes out! *shrug*...

Anyway, I found Jurassic Park III for the most part dull. Even though it was fast paced mostly throughout. I just didn't care about the characters, I still don't even remember the name of any of them and I just finished watching it. It just felt thin. There's no good story here. It's your basic monster killer flick. Nothing more. The CGI might look good. But so what. The novelty of that has mostly worn off to me now, and unfortunatly, there's really nothing else here to keep me interested.


Scott's Review:
1 out of 5 stars on December 19, 2001

This movie is bad. I'm not even sure it's fair to call this movie a movie. It's more like a series of special effects looking for a plot. I can sum of the basic actions of this movie like this: A few minutes of necessary plot, followed by dinosaurs eating various people, followed by inane plot. If you repeat until you hit the time limit, and you'll probably wind up with something better than this movie.

And the special effects weren't all that great. A great number of the shots just looked silly, with the actors flailing around in the foreground and huge dinosaurs raging in the background. It was rather obvious where the puppets were used instead of CGI to allow the human actors to interact with their reptilian counterparts.

Oh, and before I forget, my cell phone wouldn't work that well, there's no bloody way a satellite phone would work that perfectly!


-- Scott and Michelle