...it's a dull regression to the mean [of blockuster filmmaking]. Although [the regressive portrayal of heteronormativity and feminism] is not at the forefront of the film's concerns, it is indicative of the lack of imagination the film has.

| Nov 27, 2024

The Westjet of summer popcorn movies, a no-frills hot-weather adventure that gets the job done efficiently and leaves you feeling vaguely satisfied, even if it doesn't knock your socks off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2024

Super to the lame Lost World, and hardly as riveting as the original. But let's face it: How many new Dino scenarios can writers muster up?

| Original Score: B | Apr 30, 2024

Content to serve the basic B-movie needs of its audience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2022

Almost all of the magic of cinematic dinosaurs is gone, even though further attempts are made to increase the magnitude and intensity of gargantuan reptiles on the loose.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 9, 2020

Only Sam Neill could make a line like "It's a birdcage" so utterly frightening.

| Aug 12, 2020

Jurassic Park III manages to get even darker than the prior films but the sequel doesn't quite capture the magic of the franchise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2020

Some problems that, among other things, would make the film the worst that the dinosaur saga has seen to date. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

Although shorter than its predecessors in both length and budget, the audience is not short changed. Joe Johnston does a respectable job as director, keeping the pace brisk and the action moving.

| Nov 13, 2019

Jurassic Park III exemplifies Hollywood's standard practice of stomping a brilliant concept beyond recognition.

| Jun 27, 2019

The script, partially written by the team responsible for Election, is lean, tidy, and best of all, negligible--these screenwriters know better than to let the plot obscure the action, and the result is probably the best of the three Jurassic Park films.

| Jun 27, 2019

At its best, it whips itself up into a nice, scary lather, but it shrivels to nothing between the set pieces, in an excess of fog, token bits of talk, and an absence of genuine, elemental awe.

| Jun 27, 2019

Imagine my surprise, then, to find that Jurassic Park III not only beats the first JP and its sequel The Lost World into a cocked pith helmet, but also manages to be a perfectly enjoyable monster movie in its own right.

| Jun 27, 2019

The latest sequel to Steven Spielberg's clever, scary 1993 original is even less necessary than Spielberg's borderline nonsensical (but still pretty entertaining) 1997 follow-up, The Lost World.

| Jun 27, 2019

Despite all its talk of genetic engineering and its deliberately stupid characters, the unintended message of Jurassic Park III is that when it comes to art and entertainment, you can't beat human DNA.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2019

If velociraptors are so smart, why didn't they chomp up the camera before this cinematic clone got loose and sullied their good name?

| Jun 27, 2019

Ptera-fyingly good fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2019

At 140 million years and counting, the venerable Jurassic franchise is definitely showing signs of age.

| Jun 27, 2019

It's all competently done, but these newly minted dinos are starting to seem kind of prehistoric.

| Jun 27, 2019

Having been through the park on two previous rides, the novelty is now missing and the sublime sense of dread, discovery and excitement of the earlier films is sorely dwindled.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2019