We’d argue better.
But how do they stack up against one another?
His dream has become a reality.
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The only problem is, the fanny-pack-wearing public has grown bored.
(A stand-in for the audience, perhaps?)
to get to goose attendance, the theme park’s brainiacs have designed a new, scarier attraction.
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Someone’s gotta fill the end slots.
And after the long hiatus leading up toJurassic World, we expected more.
It’s a classic case of subtraction by addition.
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SinceSteven Spielbergis at the helm, this sequel is still spit-polished and Swiss-watch-precise.
But some of the primitive wonder is gone.Julianne Mooreas Dr. Ian Malcolm’s photographer girlfriend helps a bit.
But, aside from a literal cliffhanger set piece that has a very angry mamaT.
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The stock corporate baddies feel cribbed from another, lesser film.
As does the campy rampage-on-San Diego climax.
return to Isla Nublar to save the dinos from a ready-to-blow volcano.
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And Jeff Goldblum’s cameo is even worse.
So why is this ranked so high?
IsFallen Kingdomabsurd and riddled with Swiss-cheese logic holes?
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Bayonaknows how to craft jack-in-the-box entertainment.
It’s nonsense that delivers exactly what you want from a fifthJurassicmovie.
2.Jurassic Park III(2001)
A controversial choice?
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But I’d argue thatJPIIIis the most underrated third-in-a-trilogy installment I can think of.
I know, it probably took someone seven seconds to come up with that premise.
For that alone,JPIIIjumps a place or two toward the front of the line.
It’s like the first time we witnessed Spielberg’s Great White inJaws.
rexchase, theVelociraptorchase in the stainless-steel kitchen Spielberg orchestrates it all like a celluloid Toscanini.
