Rating: 
Summary: Not Bad.
Review: 'Jurassic Park III' was not bad at all. It was much more entertaining than I would have imagined. Much better than Jurassic Park II. Watch for the scene where the new dinosaur tears up the T-Rex and kills the mighty T-Rex!! It is good fun.
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Summary: Let's go back to the man-eating island!
Review: "Hey, you know that island with the dinosaurs that kill people? Let's go to it again, for a third time!"
Alas, the saga comes to an end. The first two were brilliant. They had interesting characters and great effects. This movie relies heavily on effects and has forgotten it's great character development. Malcom isn't there which is a bad thing. On top of that, they go back to the island. A couple wants to go see the dinosaurs that kill people. So they all travel and, unexpectedly, the plane crashes! Well, this isn't good. A couple of people are now stuck with a bunch of "mutated" dinosaurs on an island.The premise of the movie is revealed about midway through. The whole thing about going to the island at all though is stupid. They know the dinosaurs are dangerous yet they still go to the island? The plot is the exact same as the other movies. Also, you will know the series is done after watching the movie. The thing is, they couldn't think of any new ideas so they just decided to make the dinosaurs "mutated"(i.e: The dinosaurs are a lot smarter for some reason). The whole concept is stupid because think back to any movie you have ever seen. Remember when they introduced that monster as bigger and badder? Remember how that monster became retarded? This movie doesn't have anything new except boring characters and smarter dinosaurs. 1 star.
Rating:
Summary: B movie all the way.
Review: What was Spieldberg thinking when he handed off the awesome Jurassic Park series to Joe Johnston. This film ultimately could've been better had Steven been back in the director seat. The effects were iffy. Whoever had the idea of replacing the T-Rex in the film should be kicked out of Hollywood. The Rex should have stayed. Another thing, are the Velociraptors getting Extreme Makeovers during each of the film releases, I mean, who's idea was the featheres. The acting was so so, on the exception of Neil, Leoni, and that little kid. Macy let me down on his performance. This film was a little bit of a thrill ride, but the film lacked the realism, the sense of danger, and the tenstion that the other two films had. I dred Jurassic Park IV even though Spieldberg is directing again. Hopefully he can dig himself out of the rut that Johnston put him in.
Rating: 
Summary: Great!
Review: This is a great movie, it is full of action, and the dinasaurs are very realistic. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5, is because I gave Jurassic Park #1 5 stars, and no movie is better than Jurassic Park #1.
Rating: 
Summary: 2nd Best out of the Jurassic Park Franchise
Review: This was second best, Jurassic Park 1 was the best, that one really scared me. Jurassic Park 2 The Lost World was a joke. I couldn't stand watching it. It was so boring, and I hated the acting of Julian Moore. Jurassic Park 3 is a lot better. I think that it was good that they went to the extreme and made a Spinosaur vs. Tyranosaur scene. It was getting boring always seeing the Tyranosaur picking on people, but now they put on a vicious Predator. The Velociraptors were more detailed and better drawn. The plot was plain and simple, didn't care for it much. I liked the dinosaur effects mostly on this film, and on this film it is not boring with those long talking moments, but more on the action moments.
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Summary: Who green-lighted this disaster???!!!
Review: Much could've been said about the dire results of really weak sequels to excellent originals and unfortunately, this third "Jurassic Park" movie is one of the most glaring examples of the lessons that moviemakers never seem to learn. This third entry completely ruins the legacy of the original and even the somewhat cheesy "Lost World" was entire miles above this garbage! Almost everything that could've gone wrong on a sequel goes disasterously wrong on JP3. The movie starts when the dinosaurs are back on their island in the Pacific Ocean a hundred miles west of Costa Rica and are thriving on that island and humanity is safe from them. However, a pair of skydiving parachuters are lost and stranded on the island and one loses his life but the other is alive and on the island in danger of being killed by the veloceraptors and a team of scientists are sent in to find and rescue the young boy before it's too late. Everything from there just dissolves in lousy dialogue and weak acting by the entire cast. Even before then, the whole story plot wouldn't have a chance of going anywhere even if the acting were good because the writers who wrote the script really dropped the ball with this p&*s-poor excuse for a movie. Joe Johnston's directing, which tries to match what Stephen Spielberg does, completely falls flat on it's face and the directing is very weak and it sinks an already bad movie. He would however bounce back with "Hidalgo" three years later. The acting by the entire cast is just awful. The characters in the first JP movie were really excellent and funny and showed a lot of personality, whether it's fun and thrill of seeing real-life dinosaurs on a tourist attraction, or terrorized when the carnivorous raptors rampage on the island endangering the lives of the tourists. On "Jurassic Park III", the characters come off as whiny and absolutely Styrofoam-like in personality, looking more like annoyed or drunk than terrified. Sam Neill who was awesome in the first one showed a lot of the feeling that he was simply ready to leave the set and I can't really blame him. The plot is unbelievably formulaic and it already kills this movie before it even has a chance of going anywhere. In a lot of ways, I would say that this felt like a really large hodgepodge of deleted scenes from the previous two JP movies and the script almost felt like someone foolish numbskull just took it out of the trash can before the garbage men could take away which they should have. The first two movies benifitted from the right length of two and a half hours and allowed enough time for the fun, action, and development in the characters to show. This third movie however runs at a ridiculously short 89 minutes and it felt more like as if I were about to start taking the first bite of popcorn upon the movie starting and then as I got a second batch of popcorn, WHAM! The movie was over and I was like "What the hell was that all about?". That's what this movie was like for me. I felt incredibly ripped off and wondered why they ever released this to theatres and not straight to video. In all honesty, while I'm not trying to knock on the second movie, they should never have made a sequel to the 1993 original because it had a special and absolutely breathtakingly original style and they should've kept it that way. The 1997 sequel "Lost World" was alright in my opinion but felt a bit thrown together but this 2001 third entry destroys the power that the first movie showed and they totally ruined a great legacy with this cruel joke of a movie. I simply don't understand why this movie gets any favorable reviews. The extras on here are on the ho-hum side for me but it's mostly because I don't even care anymore with such a lousy and disasterous movie and ultimately, There is nothing that a "Collector's Edition" could rescue this film from the junk pile! This movie is not only boring but also incredibly stupid! I don't know if there will be a fourth Jurassic Park movie but if it is, I fear that it will do more in turning this once great franchise into a big epic joke and drive it further into the realm of cinematic oblivion.
Rating: 
Summary: Insulting
Review: "Computer geeks playing with their toys" would be a good way to describe the plot of this film. In this age of rampant technology we're seeing more and more movies being made based upon the technology available. Plot is an afterthought - the focus is in finding ways to exploit new computer graphics. The fact is, there was no reason for this film to be made. There is nothing in it that cannot be found in one of the first two films. I mean this literally, for in some cases actual "plot" lines were borrowed. The worst part about this film may be that its one redeeming quality - the effects - were actually poorer than the original which came out in '93. The ridiculous unrealism that crept into "The Lost World" runs rampant in JP3, providing us with memorable scenes such as a cell phone's ring being heard through a giant dinosaur's body (he swallowed it), raptor's speaking to each other, Grant learning their language and communicating with them (why yes, I speak Raptonian...), and a kid who in a few weeks alone on the island has become a dinosaur and survival expert. There is no reason whatsoever I can give to you to go see this film, especially if you've seen the first two. But, if JP4 comes out, maybe they'll give the raptors subtitles. I'd pay to see that.
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Summary: Actually Terrifying & a LOT Better than JP-2:The Lost World
Review: I did not see this movie when it came out. In fact, I SWORE off any more Jurassic Park movies after the abominably BAD Jurassic Park 2-The Lost World. I caught this on ABC TV and was only going to give it a few minutes, but after the opening sequence I was thoroughly hooked. Yes, the plot and story did have plot holes the size of T-Rex, but you had to overlook those.(Case in point: raptors and other predators ONLY show up when the humans are near a facility that they can hide in, etc. If the pteradactyls are caged in a huge bird cage, what were they eating to survive?) But the movie makers made you feel how frightened and vulnerable you'd be by being marooned in a jungle full of big things who want to eat you. I just wish whiny, BIG MOUTHED Tea Leoni would have been eaten right away! I was on the edge of my seat the whole movie and figured I might be having some nightmares after seeing this one. Like I said, it was MUCH better than the previous Jurassic Parks and I thought maybe Steven Spielberg had gotten back on track. Then I saw he DIDN'T direct JP-3 and that was why it was so good. Spielberg has gotten too rich and famous and so full of himself his quality has taken a nose-dive. This one is definitely not for small kids due to all the humans being graphically eaten alive, but for a fast moving, scary movie, rent this one.
Rating:
Summary: Tired...and sedating
Review: Formulaic...insultingly so. Tea Leoni as Woman in Peril, Sam Niell as reluctant hero, Alessandro Nivola as cocky protege, William H Macy is written forgettably, and Trevor Morgan falls into place as resourceful, Spunky Kid in need of rescue. The dinosaurs are either properly villainous, or an appropriate source of harmless comic relief.
Suffice it to say: a tired rehashing of gimmicky plot twists (We're stuck on the island! Raptors are back! Raptors are smarter than we thought! So-and-so is stuck in a cage, with a raptor bearing down! There's no way they could escape this tyrannosaurus! Wait, here comes another dinosaur to distract it! They'll fight and we'll escape! )
I'll save you the suspense: they didn't skimp, they gave you a "digging through a 4-foot, steaming pile of fecal matter" scene, audible slurping and squishing sounds and all. Whoever decides to do a fourth installment should save some time and money and just write it as a romantic comedy with Sam Niell and Laura Dern's characters engaged in some wacky paleontological adventures, complete with comedic sexual tension and requisite end-of-movie wrap-up kiss. Jurassic Park III is not worth seeing.
Rating:
Summary: Best of the Trio
Review: "King Kong" was probably the only dinosaur film ever to incorporate a good pulp adventure story along with the thrill of dinosaurs on the loose. "Jurassic Park III" doesn't even come close in that sense, but, having said that, it does give more to its story than do its predecessors or any other dinosaur film. The story is familiar: rescuing someone who is lost amidst extreme danger. The added ingredient is the secondary story of watching two estranged people finding their way back to each other; the screenplay steering many of those moments with levity. William H. Macy is one of those actors who is always enjoyable no matter how good or bad the film may be in which he appears. The Macy-Leoni pairing has wonderful chemistry and Sam Neill is, as always, highly likeable as well as heroic in a believable way. The 90 minute length reflects the film's cut-to-the-chase (literally in a lot of moments) attitude. The previous two films were cumbersome. JP III has better animated dinosaurs and some classic moments. The trip down the river, in a small boat, is reminiscent of story lines of the Far East right out of the works of Joseph Conrad or of Jules Verne, etc. Jurassic Park III is a fun film, a thrill ride and should be taken as no more than that. The screenplay and the film makers do their jobs.
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