Jurassic Park III (2001)
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Critic Consensus: Jurassic Park III is darker and faster than its predecessors, but that doesn't quite compensate for the franchise's continuing creative decline.
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Cast
as Dr. Alan Grant
as Paul Kirby
as Amanda Kirby
as Billy Brennan
as Erik
as Udesky
as Cooper
as Nash
as Dr. Ellie Sattler
as Mark
as Ben
as Enrique
as Charlie
as Cheryl
as Hannah
as Symposium Leader
as Science Reporter
as Male Student
as Female Student
as Man in Suit
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Critic Reviews for Jurassic Park III
All Critics (162) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (81) | DVD (17)
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.
True, 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.
Audience Reviews for Jurassic Park III
The third installment is darker and edgier than its previous two but it's still not enough to impact its audience. Jurassic Park III's ominous tone may be a plus but the dull narrative doesn't do it just and ultimately becomes flat to add on to the franchise. 3/5
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Here we are in the homestretch of this shaky trilogy, and people probably went into this movie, scared out of their minds about how it will compare to both the original and the terrible sequel. I truly believe it falls safely in the middle of both. It will never be considered as great as the first by any means, but it is eons better that the film that preceded it. As a boy and his father are lost on the island after wanting to view it, their family is out looking for them, and who better to trick into coming with them than doctor Grant. With much better effects, a solid story, and a script that cares about it's source material, "Jurassic Park 3" is a very entertaining film from start to finish. You can completely skip the second film and come to this. They have pulled the series out of the gutter.
Super Reviewer
An unnecessary sequel that only provides shallow thrills thanks to a few intense situations. The plot is a predictable series of loosely stitched together chase scenes, the characters are pretty stock, and the visual effects have certainly lost their wow factor (in fact they look even more dated than the first two). The actors do their best and having Sam Neill reprise his role as Dr. Alan Grant certainly does not hurt matters but the cliche script provides little substance for the actors to work with. As long as you don't compare this to the first movie too much, their are some neat ideas at play. The bigger and deadlier Spinosaurus is a cool new addition to the franchise while the most original sequence involving the flying Pteranodons is also a decent highlight. If you can withstand a half-baked plot and dumb characters, then "Jurassic Park III" provides a decently short distraction, otherwise just watch the other two and skip this last entry.
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Jurassic Park III Quotes
| Paul Kirby: | What if they catch us with them? |
| Alan Grant: | What if they catch us without em? |
| Alan Grant: | 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. |
| 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] |
| Alan Grant: | On this island there is no such thing as safe. |
| Eric Kirby: | read both of your books. I liked the first one more. Before you were on the island. You liked dinosaurs back then. |