Reviews

(Spoiler Inside) This was a movie that I had been waiting for for quite some time. Everything Spielberg had worked so hard got pooped on in this version of Jurrasic Park.

From the beginning everything that made the first movie so terrifying was thrown out of the window. Beginning with the Spinosaurus attack, which was the worst monster movie crap. What happened to the basic, animalistic curiosity that made the T-Rex attack in the original so frightening? Where was the feeling that the animals were acting on instinct rather than the directors whim? I won't even go into depth regarding the CGI Brachiosaurs that looked like their skin had been painted by taggers. Everything shot in this movie that concerned the animals seemed to have a 'look at me, I'm a Dinosaur, ain't I neat?' quality about it. The worst was the "This is a new Jurassic Park Movie" moment when the T-Rex was killed to make way for the bigger, more threatening Monster.

Sam Neil and cast were wonderful and blievable, despite the story that was predictable , and the sudden and unexplained evolution of animals (Can anyone 'splain to me where the Spino came from).

I really wonder if those putting this movie together saw the two previous movies, and what focus group made them decide to ignore the detail and research that went into them (For instance how come the Pteradactyls are just NOW leaving the island, when at the end of the Lost World, they were clearly seen roaming free).

This was just painful, angering and a waste of money. It lacked any of the intelligence or thought process that was in the first two, and was just a stupid reason to look at Dinosaurs, that were not even done as well as the first two movies (except for the Sam Winston Animatronic ones, and YES you could tell the difference this time).

Universal Pictures usually only has good movies when Spielberg puts one out (probably bailing them out of the debt they get in for shuffling out the other crap they put out all year) and they always have to push the envelope by plodding out half baked sequels to his good work (Can anyone say JAWS?) Save your money on this one folks, it's better off being spent on something in an infomercial.

• REVIEW CONTAINS A SPOILER - Although for years Hollywood has treated the movie going public as if they were idiots, Independence Day started the trend of believing that the movie going public goes to movies just to watch explosions.

This Movie was poorly thought out, and with such a talented cast its as shame that this movie turned out to be the gigantic pile of poop that it did.

Some of the few points that just irked me was the issue of the first lady, we find out she died in the initial alien attack. Sad huh? Well later we find out she's alive. Yipee, then later she dies. I didn't care at that point.

I consider myself a proud American but sometimes waving the banner is just tacky. During the final showdown the rest of the countries on the planet Earth were waiting for the Americans to start attacking the aliens before they moved? Even going so far to illustrate the point by having a Foriegn commander literally sitting on his rump and jumping up to scramble for an attack once the US says its a go. What kind of self serving patriotism crap is that?

Although there were some Highlights such as Brent Spiner's quirky scientist, Randy Quaid's Cousin Eddie in a plane (oops didnt mean to point that out),and the excellent work that the talented ensemble cast did (in vain) to save this movie.

I'm thoroughly surprised that this movie stuck to the film, and For my money, I would just as soon watch an apple brown.