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[/align]Saw it earlier today, I was in a kinda zombie state taking some flue medicine but that spino dino is da baddest of da bad yet!
Well, was it any good? As usual we all will have our own opinions and mine is.......well I ain't gonna tell ya.
Cause I like being surprised when I go and no downers or "greatest movie ever' sphills. To me that's part of the fun. But I still read some the the reviews beforehand.
So, *********Possible SPOILER ALERT!****** Don't read any further if you want to be surprised.
Ok, it was more like BambiPark than any Jurassic Park. hehe, just kidding. The first 15 minutes or so is really nothing but filler. A slight point that we learn later is relevant but if you really want to wait in line for some snacks then you'll not miss anything. Even the "point" is too subdued to be of much interest.
Now, once the action starts get ready for the real King of da jungle. This spino dino IS one bad mutha! While lacking the magic of T Rex's first appearance this spino dino makes up for it in other ways though. Bad thing is some scenes are filmed from ridley scotts school of action scenes and are too close. The main one is waaaaay too short. Let me repeat that, waaaaaay too short and filmed too close to see what all was going on. And others too dark. But maybe that's just me. Then again I was 3 rows back, hehe.
But don't worry, there are some real kick-ass scenes with this puppy later and he makes it real clear he wants human snack. Guess he's tired of eating the other wildlife around and wants a change. Hey we all get bored with what we eat sometimes too.
The rapters are back. They're too smart to not be around. This time we learn more of how smart they really are. They have some of the better lines in the movie actually.
As for mr t rex, well you'll see. I ain't gonna spoil all the fun.
The actions scenes, even counting the ones filmed too close and too dark there are enough good to make up for those. And frankly that's about all this movie is. The good action dino scenes. The "in between" is mostly boring, but with a few exceptions.
And is it just me who thinks that Tea Leoni is one of the most boring female actresses around. She was dreadful in Deep Impact and the same here. Does she ever wake up? I mean, sheeesh. Like a talking dummy. I kept begging for any dino to eat her and I mean quick! The others were ok. William Macy was good, for what little he had to work with. Sam Neil was fine as usual. But at the first of the movie he seemed to have this permanant goofy smile plastered on his face. Maybe he was just so happy he was away from the dinos and that he made it out alive from the first jurassic park. But once he finds himself around more that smile goes away.
All in all it is far more enjoyable that JP 2, but not up to par as the first jp. It'd be very difficult to top that anyway. My ratings: JP - 10, JP 2 - 4, JP3 - 7. If jp3 had better filler it'd be much better. It was only 92 minutes long but seemed more like 3 hours thanks to the boring in betweens.
Oh and btw. I'll probably see it at least once more on da big screen.
I really liked seeing some of the more fabled dinos that were left out of the first two (teradactyls, etc.). The problem is that there was NOTHING in between these scenes. The movie was only an hour and a half long and 90% of that were dinos (not that I mind). I walked out going, "That's it??" There were too many questions that weren't answered. Perfect example: after the first encounter with the Spino, Sam Neil says "I wonder what else InGen was up to here." But of course, nothing more was ever said about it. It just wasn't done well at all. The movie could have been 20 times better without spending a ton more money on dinos simply by answering these questions. Not only that, it could have been another half hour or more C H E A P! The comic relief was ridiculous and so was the ending. It is all too clear that they were only thinking "Dinos, Dinos, Dinos" for this one, and the movie suffered as a result of that. I give it a 6/10 simply because it was entertaining if not shallow.