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Summary: What a Sequel Should be!!!
Review: What a Sequel Should be. A fun movie that did not Bog down in to Plot details. If you are looking for Depth go elsewhere, looking for a morality lesson look elsewhere. Looking for a fun captivating movie with Specatacular Special effects this is for you!! The Only problem I had with the Movie is that the Ending kind of fell apart and became cheesy. Otherwise it is a great roller coaster ride.
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Summary: A weak effort at best.
Review: I'm supposing the DVD is loaded with extras to keep you away from watching the movie itself?The burning question is: How are they going to manage a plot that gets them back to that island...again? Well, they pulled one out of thin air and off we go. The scenery is still beautiful but the aura has faded from this once great idea. Horrid writing is the worst enemy of any movie. There were stories that this one was written as they filmed. It sure seemed that way. Jurassic Park, sadly, is taking the route of the Jaws series. Steadily getting worse.
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Summary: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Review: THE GOOD: Stan Winston and ILM have again succeeded in producing amazing special F/X for Jurassic Park III. The DVD also has a HUGE Special Features section. From behind the scenes documentaries and special F/X techniques, to interviews with the paleontologist who helped with the film. Very few DVD's have this many interesting special features. THE BAD: The sappy moments between characters, and Sam Niel communicating with raptors. THE UGLY: It's all been done before. There is nothing new or interesting to look at in Jurassic Park III. It's as good (or bad) as any other sequel trying to sqeeze every last dollar out of a lucrative franchise. CONCLUSION: If you haven't seen this yet, and are considering buying the DVD outright because you liked the first two films, rent it first. If you've already seen the film, like it, and want the DVD. Buy it. The special features are so impressive, if I liked the film at all, I'd own this DVD.
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Summary: Lame dino eats stupid people.
Review: I used to think part II was lame but this takes the cake. A stupid scenario where anyone with a gun dies ten minutes after landing on the island. Poor acting and plot line lead to obvious "I've seen this before.." comments.
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Summary: All You Non-Believers Are Wrong
Review: JPIII is easily the best movie of the year. It was chilling, funny, the dinosaurs were fantastically rendered, ETC. ETC. ETC.! I saw it several times in the theater. If you like dinosaurs, buy this. If you like exciting movies, buy this. If you don't buy it, you are strange and ugly, and nobody likes you so you should probably buy it to fit in and make friends.
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Summary: "Too improbable and corny to be taken seriously..."
Review: Sam Neill repises his role as Dr. Grant with Macey and Leone as parents searching for their missing son on "Site-B". Too improbable and corny to be taken seriously, and the action never lets up. You'll find yourself not caring who's going to live or die. Good special effects highlight this one-note samba.
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Summary: Ho Hum
Review: It's an average flick. About what you'd expect after seeing the first two in the series. It's interesting, but nothing special. Special effects and sound are great. Story leaves a little to be desired. Too predictable.
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Summary: ...enjoyable...
Review: Everyone knows that "Jurassic park I" was a classic, and with any sequel to a classic it becomes difficult to match the plot, effects, etc... (the original star wars trilogoy being the exception, and the alien sagas running a close second)... Jurassic park II was great until it got state-side then it went downhill quickly! For my personal enjoyment, this installment was much more pleasing...nothing new really happens, it has some cheap thrills & some laughs and that's about what I expected anyway. This was worth the purchase. Don't get this before you see the first one!
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Summary: Mammoth DVD
Review: Jurassic is one of few movie series that I love unconditionally. I normally don't buy Region 1 DVDs unless I know they are not being released in the UK. However, for this one I made an exception. It may have not done the business in the cinema the way the first two of the series did, but Johnston's replacement of Spielberg as Director is a seamless one. So you might say that what can a 3rd instalment about pre-historic creatures give us that has not already been done before? This movie gives you an elaborate answer. With the return of Sam Neill as Alan & special guest appearance from Dern, this movie feels like the true sequel to the first instalment. Taking place on another dino-infested island, Neill guides Macy & Leoni et al through a ravenous island where beast are free to live in their natural habitat - hence creating a few scares on the way. Most notable is the introduction of the Spinosaurus Egypticus - the biggest & fiercest carnivor of them all - there's a gripping battle with the movie's hitherto principal antihero, T-Rex & an amusing scene with a satellite phone. A true movie gem. The outcome of the sequence leaves you in no doubt as to who the mother of all dinos are. Velociraptors are back with a vengeance & with an evolutionary edge. The film builds on suggestion that the most evil of the Jurassic age was a communal beast that had its own developed communication skills. We watch in horror as they track down & kill the human visitors. My fave scene of the movie is the Birdcage sequence which is thrilling & fantastic to watch. You get an overall sense that the movie's creators have sought to give their audiences new chunks to bite into - mainly about evolution & man's battle against temptation. I was thoroughly satisfied by the movie's direction & edge. Certainly there were parts missing. The ending was too rapid & everything works out between Neill & his ingenu assistant - but hey it's the movies & the film does not profess to be Einstein's sibling. Add to a cracking movie a series of in-depth featurettes & behind the scenes footage & you have a whopper of a DVD which succeeds not only in the fun & brilliance of the movie, but the quality of the package as a complete synthesis of the movie from pre-production. A guilty pleasure which I'm glad I bought
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Summary: Lara Croft misses the spirit of the game
Review: My issues with this movie involve its relationship to the source material. What a movie they could have made had they stuck to the spirit of the video game. Why didn't they--wasn't the game a success? And what made it a success--the design, the feel, the character of Lara Croft as originally concieved, that's what.The movie is SO not the game that they might just as well have named it Georgia Jones and the Temple Of Doom. The game makers carefully created a world and a character to dwell within it: a cool light intriguing arena with a compact sexy protagonist. She confronts a series of challenges with quick ingenuous single minded perseverence. Now comes this clamoring corporate cinematic contraption. Angelina Jolie's presence is sultry and inner dwelling and somewhat passive, which is good in itself but misses the steel trap reflexiveness of the original character creation completely. Also, the video character seemed to be of indeterminate race, only partly white. Then they ladle on the paranormal new age back story. Worst of all, Jolie is rarely more than a few yards from good and bad men for the run of the flick, even if the film makers have to drag out her dead father to gaze upon her her supple flesh. She's never allowed to act out the original character's calling--to get into and out of a series of delimas ALL BY HERSELF, as a strong resourceful modern young woman. The "real" Lara Croft is a sleek sexy problem solver, not some smoulderingly sensual pampered history sleuth with oedipal yearnings and an over-endowed, lanky body.They missed their chance to make an intiguing, virtually dialogue free masterpiece. THAT movie is still waiting to be made, maybe by a young director and cast with no money but lots of talent and the capacity to be inspired.
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