Wow, how the mighty have fallen. The original was a masterpiece, the sequel was a fun Jeff Goldbloom cheesefest (in a good way!), but the third entry is, quite simply, trash. "Let's just keep going, keep makin' 'em" was the philosophy; purely a money-making adventure for the production company, no desire for quality. The movie is so bad that it took another 14 years for them to try to make another one. That says a lot.The script is incompetent and the characters are irritating. We just keep wishing one of the main characters would get eaten alive like the minor characters do. There's nothing redeeming about them - nothing redeeming about Sam Neill either. Close-up shots of him looking at things in his character's annoying way gets really annoying. We get it, come on. The milking of CGI dino fights is egregious. Yes, sequels usually resort to "overdoing" the original (for example, Alien/Aliens), but this was just ridiculous. Relying on CGI as the primary plot vehicle will never work, and it reveals the cheap, gimmicky nature of the movie. I could have given this turkey a 2 out of 10 simply for the film's last line - "Let's go home". Boooooo!!!! Booooooooooo!!!

For the most part, the dinosaurs are brought to life with a similar (even ever-so-slightly improved, on the digital side of things) technical proficiency as the previous pictures in this franchise, even blending between CG and practical elements perhaps better than 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)'. 'Jurassic Park III (2001)' isn't graced with the behind-the-scenes talent of its predecessors, though, and this omission really shows. It isn't necessarily the visual believability of its cretaceous creations that takes a hit, but rather the competence of the overall craft. The direction is decent but uninspired and often marred by odd choices such as obvious and distracting speed-ramping. The story takes a hit, too, because, while it is somewhat of an intriguing concept to set a rescue mission on a dinosaur-infested island and have it essentially be divorced from the events of the former films, the themes that make the picture's underlying concept inherently interesting are all but gone. Instead, they are replaced by vapid characters going through the motions of a standard 'survival' plot that might as well be set amongst regular jungle predators. It's in this entry that the suspense starts to seep out in favour of soulless spectacle. It's clear that the picture prefers to pit two dinosaurs against one another simply because that's 'cool'. Because of this, there's little exciting in the entire piece despite the fact that there's barely a moment to spare. The pacing doesn't feel taut, it feels rushed and the same can be said of every aspect. There didn't seem to be a reason for making this movie other than money and, as always, that's a sure-fire way to make the worst entry in your franchise thus far. 5/10

It's disappointing. What else is there to say? It sucks. It is way too short and if it was like over two hours it would have more potential.

Movie Review: "Jurassic Park III" (2001)In season 2000/2001 executive producer Steven Spielberg passed on the directing efforts in the "Jurassic Park" movie series to director Joe Johnston, who had been received notices with the special-effect-spectacle "Jumanji" (1995). In this third installment of an highly-successful first film "Jurassic Park" directed by Steven Spielberg in season 1992/1993, where computer-generated-imagery (CGI) got its stakes in movie-making over the former stop-motion-techniques from the early days of fantasy-action with "King Kong" (1933) produced and directed by Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973). "Jurassic Park III" does establish weaker thrills then "The Lost World" (1997) directed by Steven Spielberg due to an uninspired no-dinosaur opening sequence with an common 10-year-old boy and his guardian get attacked by assumingly a group of Pteranodons (Giant Bird-Like Dinosaurs), who then make the ultimate highlight of this picture in a relentless thrilling, yet-all-to-short cage fight between another stranded group led by as usual convincing leading actor Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant, whom unchanged character from "Jurassic Park" (1993) helps out a desperate on-off-relationship couple, fairly-emotional supporting cast portrayed by Téa Leoni and match-making William C. Macy.Everything else in this some surprises-striking Fantasy-Action-Movie for a fast-moving, no-major-drama or conflict-given despite surviving as escaping again the second island of billionaire John Hammond's Jurassic Park day-dreams, when private planes fall off the sky, the T-Rex has a death-match with an indecisive Spinosaurus of an unpleasant in-betweener dinosaur selection in missed opportunities of the up to 18% more expensive "Jurassic Park III" over its predecessor, despite the ticket-worthiness of news-bringing action scene with magnificent realistically-designed Pteranodons, when the unless suspenseful group-hunting velociraptors fall short in this one, versus the common-runaway-group of less-cared-about characters from unfinished screenplay feeling written by project-abandoning filmmakers Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, know for collaborating on full-blown dramatic scripts for "About Schmidt" (2002) starring Jack Nicholson and "Sideways" (2004) starring Paul Giamatti.Nevertheless "Jurassic Park III" must be enjoyed as a plain Hollywood entertainment of no consequence, when it took another 14 years for executive producer Steven Spielberg at Univeral Studios-based company of Amblin Entertainment, Inc. to redeem this 85-Minute action movie in order to deliver a higher-thrills-sharing "Jurassic World" in Summer 2015.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)