Film Review of Jurassic Park III
Year: 2001 Reviewer: Chris Docker
I'm afraid this movie didn't keep me awake so I can only comment on the first two thirds of it. Basically, some humans are on an island inhabited by prehistoric monsters. To spice it up, the monsters are supposed to be super intelligent and able to talk to each other. Not clever enough to beat the humans unfortunately, who will live to make another monster movie probably. The special effects seem better than the first two efforts (JP and JPII) though the plot is so transparent it has to be enlivened with devices like a monster swallowing a mobile phone that then rings and can be heard from outside its body (duh!). The most familiar scene is some human(s) get wedged into a small space (eg car, hollow tree, whatever) and the monsters head is just slightly too big to get in and eat them, leaving them to play the scene again in a different corner. After seeing this numerous times I reckoned I'd got the idea and had a doze. Nice afternoon's big screen junk food - don't go and see it alone though - you'll need someone to talk to afterwards so you don't feel you've entirely wasted the evening.
Rating: 4/10
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