Sam Neill Now Thinks JURASSIC PARK III is “Pretty Damn Good”
Mike Sprague
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Jurassic Park and Event Horizon star Sam Neill will return as Dr. Alan Grant in director Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion. And today, for some reason, he feels the need to tell us all that Jurassic Park III is underrated.
He tells Collider: “I was just talking to someone earlier in the day who said, ‘I really like Jurassic Park III and it gets an unfair [treatment].’ .. And I said, ‘Thank you very much!’ I agree that the last 10 minutes are way too easy and way too hurried, but I think up to that point, it’s pretty damn good.”
He adds: “For me, by the time I got to #3, probably a bit late in the day, I’d sort of worked out how to play that character, which I hadn’t really quite gotten around to in the first one. I was still trying to work out, how do you play that guy in the hat? And you have to think how to do that. It’s a special skill. You’re not just playing a character. You need a whole skillset. You need a whole armory to play an action hero and I wish I had known what those skills were when we did the first one…“
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The third installment finds Dr. Alan Grant (Neill) being persuaded to conduct an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen’s second site for a failed Jurassic Park experiment. There he discovers the true reason for his invitation. A tragic accident maroons the party of seven, and they must attempt to escape with their lives. William H. Macy (Fargo) costarred with Tea Leoni (Bad Boys) and Alessandro Nivola (Face/Off).
The film sports a 49% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: Jurassic Park III is darker and faster than its predecessors, but that doesn’t quite compensate for the franchise’s continuing creative decline.
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