Jurassic Park 3 (2001)

Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction film and the third of the Jurassic Park franchise. It is the only film in the series that is neither directed by Steven Spielberg nor based on a book by Michael Crichton, though numerous scenes in the movie were taken from Crichton's two books, Jurassic Park and The Lost World. The film takes place on Isla Sorna in the Central American pacific coast, the island from the second film, after a divorced couple tricks Dr. Alan Grant into helping them find their son. After the success of Jurassic Park, Joe Johnston asked Steven Spielberg if he could direct the film adaptation of The Lost World, the sequel to Jurassic Park. While Spielberg wanted to do the project, he promised to give the helm of the second sequel to Johnston. Spielberg stayed involved with the film by becoming the executive producer. Three years after the release of The Lost World, production of the third film began in August 2000. Although a commercial success, the film was released to mixed reviews.

A boy named Eric Kirby (Trevor Morgan) and his soon-to-be stepfather, Ben Hildebrand (Mark Harelik), go parasailing near Isla Sorna with a "DINO-SOAR" Parasail. Meanwhile, the boat's crew disappear (presumably killed by a swimming dinosaur). Ben and Eric crash on the island. Scientists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) have continued their paleontological careers but are working independently. Ellie is married and has two children while Grant is still digging with his protégé Billy Brennan (Alessandro Nivola). While at the dig site, Billy reveals a resonating chamber that he prototyped using a computer program to scan the skull of a velciraptor. Grant is approached by Paul (William H. Macy) and Amanda Kirby (Téa Leoni) who pretend to be wealthy and desire to tour Isla Sorna. Having chartered a plane, they want Grant to be their guide. He is reluctant at first, but eventually agrees after the Kirbys offer to fund his dig. Grant suspects that something is not quite right when the plane carrying him, Billy, the Kirbys, and a trio of mercenaries named Udesky (Michael Jeter), Cooper (John Diehl), and M.B. Nash (Bruce A. Young), begins to land. Dr. Grant protests, but is knocked unconscious by Cooper. Dr. Grant wakes when Amanda uses a megaphone to call out to her son in the jungle, a roar is heard followed by several gunshots. Nash and Udesky emerge shouting they have to leave. The plane starts down the runway when Cooper suddenly appears, crying for them to stop. Suddenly, a huge Spinosaurus dashes in front of the plane, seizing him in its jaws and killing him. As it leaves the ground, the plane grazes the Spinosaurus, sending it out of control into the jungle and stranded up a tree. The Spinosaurus attacks again, tearing off the front of the cockpit, seizing Nash and devouring him. The plane remnant falls to the ground where Grant, Billy, Paul, Amanda, and Udesky are once again assaulted by the persistent spinosaurus, which turns out to be unusually aggressive. They finally escape when the dinosaur gets it head stuck between two trees. Their luck sours again as they blunder into a Tyrannosaurus eating a fresh kill. Grant tells everyone to freeze, but instead, they beginning running. Disturbed, it pursues them back into the jungle where the Spinosaurus suddenly reappears. The two theropods engage in territorial battle, with the Spinosaurus emerging victorious. The survivors slip away in the meantime. Grant angrily punches Paul, but Amanda intervenes. Grant learns that the Kirbys, who are divorced, are actually searching for their son, Eric, who was stranded on the island along with Amanda's fiancé, Ben, in a parasailing accident eight weeks earlier. He decides to lead them to the coast, increasing their chances of rescue. The Kirbys constantly argue along the way. They discover the parasail and the video camera containing footage of Ben and Eric's last moments together. They end up finding Ben's skeletal remains and Amanda runs away in fear. She tells Paul she is worried about their son, who is now alone. Billy salvages the parasail, and the Kirbys discover several nearby velociraptors nests. The group comes across the abandoned InGen compound. They explore the compound and find large vats of liquid with the preserved remains of young dinosaurs inside. Amanda is attacked by a male Velociraptor, who had been waiting in ambush behind a vat, appearing to be inside. As they flee, the rest of the raptor pack joins in the pursuit. Udesky gets separated from the others and is attacked by the alpha female raptor, who stabs him with her toe claw. The rest of the group take refuge in a large tree. Amanda tries to help Udesky but nearly falls from the tree. The hidden raptors ambush her, revealing their trap. Failing at their attack, a male raptor snaps Udesky's neck and kills him. Grant is separated and becomes surrounded by four angry raptors when Eric arrives in the nick of time to rescues him with gas grenades. He has survived on the island since the accident, living in an abandoned water truck. The following morning while trekking through the jungle, Eric recognizes the ringtone of his father's satellite phone. The groups reunite, separated by a high, spiked barrier fence. Paul, puzzled at Eric's explanation as to how he detected them, points out the cell phone was lost when he gave it to Nash (who was eaten by the Spinosaurus). The phone's ringing is heard again. The group spots the Spinosaurus nearby with the ringing coming from inside it's belly. The dinosaur is on Eric and Alan's side of the fence, so the two run in panic and by a stroke of luck, find a hole in the fence which they dive through. The group is reunited, but the Spinosaurus rams through the fence and chases them until they find shelter in another building, where they have a new moment of peace. There, Grant discovers Billy has stolen two Velociraptor eggs, with the intent to fund archaeological sites for another ten years. The reason for the raptors' motives for attacking them comes to light. On the verge of dropping them in the river, Grant hesitates, and replaces the eggs in his backpack. Stunned, Paul Kirby asked "What if they catch us with them?" Grant responds, "What if they catch us without them?" To reach a boat docked in a nearby river, the group must pass through a massive aviary dome. They are attacked by large Pteranodons, one of which flies away with Eric in its claws. Using the parasail he salvaged, Billy rescues Eric from a nest of Pteranodon infants, but is attacked and overwhelmed by several adults when he gets trapped on a cliff. He falls into the water. The rest of the group assumes he is dead as he is carried away by the current, pursued by the flying dinosaurs. The group escapes, but the dome's door is left ajar. The party finds the boat and while navigating down the river hear a phone ringing. This leads them to a dung pile containing the satellite phone the Spinosaurus had eaten from the plane, which they are forced to sift through by hand in order to recover it. A Ceratosaurus appears and nearly attacks, but backs off at the last moment upon smelling the dung which it knows marks the territory of the Spinosaurus. As the survivors travel down the river, the Spinosaurus emerges from the water and attacks them. Grant attempts to call Dr. Sattler on the satellite phone, but is dragged beneath the surface and can only yell "The river! Site B! The river!". Paul climbs to the top of a nearby crane to distract the monster, and Grant shoots a flare which ignites the oil that has spilled from the boat, scaring away the dinosaur. The group is close to shore when raptors reappear, wanting their eggs back. Avoiding any sudden movement, Grant tells the group to get on their knees. He then pulls out the eggs and notices in Billy's bag the raptor's resonating chamber prototype Billy made earlier in the film. Grant imitates a Velociraptor call on the special pipe, which startles the pack. Then, the blades of a helicopter are heard and, disconcerted, the raptors retreat, taking the eggs with them. At the beach, United States Marine Corps helicopters and infantry arrive. The party boards a helicopter where they are reunited with Billy, who was injured during the Pteranodon attack. As the helicopter departs, three Pteranodons are seen flying off in the distance. Eric asks Grant where they might be going and Grant speculates they are searching for new nesting grounds. Paul is glad that they're finally going home, and the film ends as the Pteranodons fly off into the clouds.