Jurassic Park 3 (2001) Movie Review

This will be my review for Jurassic Park 3. For those new to my Blog Im doing a quick review of all the Jurassic Park movies before I do a full review of Jurassic Park the Lost World. I've already done the review for Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park 2 the Lost World which you can read by following the link.

Jurassic Park 3 is the third movie installment of the Jurassic franchise. It came out back in 2001. It is the shortest Jurassic movie in the series so far clocking at around 1 hour and a half. Sam Neill and Laura Dern both reprise their roles in this film as they were both absent in the second Jurassic Park film, the Lost World.

Jurassic Park 3 was a nice welcome addition in the franchise and is a decent recap finale of the first Jurassic Park trilogy. Although i'd probably would have love to have Goldblum reprise his role as well for this one specially how well he did in the Lost World Jurassic Park movie.

The story is rather weak compared to the previous two installment of the franchise but I like how they make an effort to connect this third movie to the first by mentioning or acknowledging the both the Isla Sorna and the San Diego incident respectively which was the focus of the first and second movie. This is also the first movie where the main dinosaur bad guy isn't a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Pacing however I feel the movie moves a bit too slow for my taste and lacks a lot of awe and thrills the first two movies had plenty. I'm not saying this movie is bad it just could have been better. Maybe a lot more dinosaur chases.

The first movie introduced us to the dinosaurs and the wonders and dangers these creatures bring, the second is about exploiting these creatures akin to animal abuse. Jurassic Park 3 is pretty much just a rescue mission survival mission which is pretty much what the first two movie before it was already.

The music is not as good or memorable compared to the first two films since it fails to capture the grandeur, adventure and danger of the Jurassic franchise. This movie did introduced the Spinosaur which is a more dangerous dinosaur than the Tyrannosaurus Rex since the T-Rex are more known as scavengers while Spinosaurs are hunters.

The Spinosaur and the Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur fight was a great touch specially since these two dinosaurs live on two different continent and existed millions of years apart. So having them go at each other is an awesome  sight on the big screen. There is no scientific data to prove which of the two is the vicious dinosaur but in terms of size the Spinosaur is definitely bigger.

In conclusion the movie is enjoyable although it did have a slow start at the beginning. Not to mention this is the first movie that doesn't involve a park despite the Jurassic park in the movie title. Music is the weakest in a Jurassic franchise so far for me. The third act is clearly the best part of the film. It's a decent recap that doesn't add anything to the franchise.