7/10
Billy's Backpack
27 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
All in all Jurassic Park part 3 was not bad.

Sam Neill and Laura Dern came back for this one! Sam Neill was now the main star of the film while Laura Dern was regulated to a small and brief cameo role. I like when we first see Sam and Laura I was under the impression that they were now married and had kids but it was in-joke as Sam's character was just visiting Laura who is now married to some other guy and is out of the dinosaur business per se William H Macy and Tea Leoni first appear as a married couple but in reality they were a divorced couple who got together because of their son's disappearance as he was on vacation with his new stepdad Mark Harelik. Mark had a very brief role in the beginning of the film and then he was never seen again I remember him right away as Milos from a Seinfeld episode back in the day lol Bill Macy was good but Leoni's annoying character started to get on my nerves. Bill did the best he could but he and T had no chemistry whatsoever so it was kind of hard to swallow that they were once married and had a kid together but that's Hollywood . Alessandro nivola as Sams Young Apprentice was well cast. The three mercenary Musketeers played by Michael Jeter, John Diehl and Bruce A Young had very brief roles?! They killed off fairly quickly!

But like I said Joe Johnston's film is basically a homage to Ray harryhausen go Motion dinosaurs and I appreciate that. I even like Sam Neill Grant character emplifying Indiana Jones! there are quite a few scenes where is Sam where's the same type of hat / fedora that Indie uses! At one point when Sam is in the plane taking a nap he takes off his hat and puts it in his face just like Indie did and his films! Plus Sam Neill has always had that devilish eyebrow is I like Jack Nicholson so makes me wonder how Sam Neill could have played Indiana Jones or he could have played like Indiana Jones brother that would have been amazing, last but not least there was a Jurassic Park 3 reunions of sorts , even though they did not share any scenes in this movie ,the actor who played the very brief role of the ill-fated captain of the boat in the intro of the film Julio Oscar Mechoso, would 16 years later guest star with on Tea Leoni's TV series Madam Secretary ,season 3 episode 14 ,"Labor of Love" as the character Mateo. Unfortunately this would be Julio Oscar last screen appearance as he passed away, at the age of 62, of a heart attack shortly after that guest appearance.
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