Jurassic Park III (2001)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 158
Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 80
The dinos are as cool as ever, but there's too much of a "been there, done that" feel.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 24
The dinos are as cool as ever, but there's too much of a "been there, done that" feel.
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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 446,887
Movie Info
Director Joe Johnston takes over the creative reins from Steven Spielberg for this third installment in the thriller franchise. Sam Neill returns as Dr. Alan Grant, a scientist who's tricked by wealthy couple Paul and Amanda Kirby (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) into a fly-over of Isla Sorna. The object of their sightseeing tour is one of the Costa Rican islands populated by ferocious, genetically bred dinosaurs and the "site B" setting of Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World (1997). After their
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Cast
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Sam Neill
Alan Grant -
William H. Macy
Paul Kirby -
Téa Leoni
Amanda Kirby -
Alessandro Nivola
Billy Brennan -
Trevor Morgan
Eric Kirby -
Michael Jeter
Udesky -
John Diehl
Cooper -
Laura Dern
Ellie Sattler -
Bruce A. Young
Nash -
Taylor Nichols
Mark -
Mark Harelik
Ben Hildebrand -
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Enrique Cardoso -
Sarah Danielle Madison
Cheryl Logan -
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All Critics (162) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (80) | DVD (45)
An all-action, helter-skelter, don't-forget-to-buy-the-computer-game ride that makes the two previous installments look like models of classic filmmaking.
Top CriticTrue, the film offers little new, but it's still stirring family entertainment...
If there's one thing certain in this new instalment of Jurassic Park, it's that the critters are a whole lot smarter, faster and interesting than the Homo sapiens dropping in on them.
Bad news is the only news in Jurassic Park III.
Too bad the script doesn't extend the same courtesy to the actors, who are saddled with dialogue neither man nor beast could respond to.
The third time around is at least one time too many.
More than half an hour shorter than The Lost World, so at least there's a lot less of it to suffer through.
For kids who can handle nonstop action, it's good scary fun.
An efficient and surprisingly palatable finale to the Jurassic franchise.
Spectacular but not scary or thrilling.
Mr. Johnston keeps the action and one-liners coming and, before you know it, it's over.
Much darker than the previous films, this third installment feels more like a horror flick set in amusement park than a good sci-fi adventure, though special effects, due to technology advances, are more sophisticated.
As seqüências de ação são boas, mas não o bastante para que ignoremos a fragilidade do roteiro, com seus péssimos diálogos e os personagens esquemáticos.
It might as well be the crappy pilot for a Jurassic Park TV series or a feature version of Sid and Marty Krofft's Land of the Lost.
Jurassic Park III is a blunder.
It's not art ... it's entertainment, and it knows it. Boy, does it entertain.
If you're looking for a tight script, interesting three-dimensional characters and something new with this movie, you will be disappointed.
For a sequel with a Roman numeral in the title, Jurassic Park III is more entertaining than expected.
Milking a Brontosaurus would be easier than milking this franchise any more . . . This pointless sequel is a tepid end (if there is a God) to the series
People who go to see Jurassic Park III are not there for character development, they want cool-looking dinosaurs, and that they will get in spades.
The Jurassic movies have by now palpably entered the plane of baldly profit-hunting, unpretentious entertainment...
The film never really decides what the central drive is going to be.
Returning to Jurassic Park a second time wasn't the most fruitful journey ... it's no surprise that the third trip back to the dinosaur-ridden island borders on the offensive.
It's not brilliant, it's rather predictable, but it's ok; it bowls along nicely and it does make you jump. What more can you ask of dinosaurs?
Audience Reviews for Jurassic Park III
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- Paul Kirby: What if they catch us with them?
- Alan Grant: What if they catch us without em?
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- Alan Grant: I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
- Paul Kirby: But then you never get to go into space
- Alan Grant: Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing: to be able to touch them. And that's... that's all that Billy wanted. [a field of beautiful dinosaurs comes into view]
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- Alan Grant: On this island there is no such thing as safe.
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- Eric Kirby: read both of your books. I liked the first one more. Before you were on the island. You liked dinosaurs back then.
- Alan Grant: Back then they hadn't tried to eat me yet.
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- Eric Kirby: Be careful with that. T-Rex. It scares some of the smaller ones away but attracts one really big one with the fin.
- Alan Grant: This is T-Rex pee? [Eric nods yes] How'd you get it?
- Eric Kirby: You don't wanna know.
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- Alan Grant: Reverse Darwinism - survival of the most idiotic.
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Johnston has always been a average director and his filmography is not that impressive either. He often makes films that are aimed for families but they also are lacking originality or real feel of awe. His best film to date is darkly atmospheric The Howling, which is quite entertaining and good film, but i would not go and say that it is a great film.
It would be wrong to blame only Johnston for the mess that Jurassic Park 3 is. Much of this film's weakness comes from the weak screenplay that was written by Alexander Payne, Peter Buchman and Jim Taylor. The characters, the story and twists are so weak that it is truly surprising that they actually decided to turn this screenplay into a film. Everytime film tries to be more comedic it is just downright embarrasing to watch. To bring back Sam Neill as a Alan Grant is an interesting choice but his effort here goes to waste because there is no good material for him to work with. Rest of the cast are mostly annoying characters that act without logic.
At least the effects and production values are mostly above average but this entry into the wold of Jurassic Park is highly uneven and flawed work. It is a wannabe adventure film with no life in it. It just shiny hollow shelf without any emotion or story to tell in it.