Sam Neill Is Right: Jurassic Park 3 Is Better Than You Remember
Sam Neill has reflected on Jurassic Park 3, suggesting that the third entry in the Jurassic Park trilogy is worth revisiting, and he's right. Interviewed for Gizmodo to promote Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill said that "I think it works real good and that there’s some really good stuff in it." Released in 2001, Joe Johnson's follow-up to Steven Spielberg's first two Jurassic Park movies saw the return of Dr. Alan Grant, who's misled into joining a rescue mission on Isla Sorna.
Despite performing strongly at the box office, Jurassic Park 3 performed poorly with critics and audiences alike. They criticized the film for its poor plot, character decisions, and the infamous scene involving a talking raptor. According to Neill, there were various rewrites that added to the film's considerable production issues. In spite of all this, as Sam Neill will attest, the film still contains "some really good stuff."
Jurassic Park 3 links to Jurassic World via a surprisingly smart, meta take on the franchise which makes it worth revisiting ahead of Jurassic World: Dominion. Where Jurassic World was a movie about the inherent ridiculousness of franchise sequels and their need to go bigger, Jurassic Park 3 is also a movie about the pressures of legacy. In one of the movie's opening scenes, Dr. Alan Grant delivers a lecture about raptors to an increasingly disinterested audience. When a sea of hands shoot up at the question and answer session, Grant asks his audience if anyone has a question that does not relate to Jurassic Park. It's a fourth-wall-breaking gag about Sam Neill's life - as despite the numerous great credits on his filmography, he too will be answering questions about Jurassic Park for the rest of his career. It's the same vein of meta-humor that ran through Jurassic World, from Jake Johnson's character wearing an original Jurassic Park t-shirt to jokes about the perils of doing the same thing again. It's one of many elements that link both the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World trilogies and makes Jurassic Park 3 better than audiences remember.
The way the film handles the raptors is also an interesting element of Jurassic Park 3. The talking raptor dream sequence has become a meme-worthy moment, but the idea of communicating with them has become a defining feature of the Jurassic World franchise. Chris Pratt communicates with raptors throughout the Jurassic World movies, forming a particular bond with Blue. This bond affirms the theories that Grant shares in the opening of Jurassic Park 3 and also appears to be the main plot driver of Jurassic World: Dominion as Owen tries to rescue Blue's child. It has the potential to be a far better movie than Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which tried and failed to apply the Jurassic Park franchise to a haunted house horror movie.
In some respects, Jurassic Park 3 was a more successful Jurassic horror movie. The disused laboratory full of dead dinosaur embryos and broken eggshells leads to a great jump-scare involving a raptor peering through a jar of formaldehyde. Another scene has Téa Leoni's character tied up in a parachute with a rotting corpse attached to it. While it's overplayed by Leoni, the idea of it is far more horrifying than anything in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. While the film inarguably has its problems, the smart comedy, outlandish paleontological theories, and horror set-pieces make Jurassic Park 3 a much better movie than its reputation suggests, and one worth revisiting ahead of Dr. Alan Grant's return in Jurassic World: Dominion.
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