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| The Trilogy | |
| Jurassic Park (1993) is a film adapted by David Koepp and Michael Crichton, from Crichton's 1991 book "Jurassic park". The novel "Jurassic park", details the remarkable events leading to the bankruptcy of genetics company "International Genetic Technologies" commanly know as InGen. These events took place one weekend in August 1989 on a remote island 120 west of Costa Rica. The film, directed by Jaws helmer Steven Spielberg, is similar in many respects to Crichton's novel, but differs in its approach to the scientific subject matter. The film spends less time talking about the build up to the "Isla Nublar incident" as it has become known, and more time detailing the incident itself. To cut to the chase, a computer programmer at InGen defects to rival gentetics company Biosyn and leaves, breifly stopping to shut down all power grids and safety systems at the Isla Nublar compund. The gentically created creatures are then free to escape and hunt down their human prey. This makes for thrill a minute action on the big screen and many interesting deaths by various animals of various sizes and degrees of intelligence. The 1997 film sequel "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (The title dervived from the 1925 classic) succeeds less in developing any of the characters who survived the events of Jurassic Park, but does thicken the plot of the series by revealing that InGen also owned another series of islands 80 miles north of Nublar. The island chain known as Las Cinco Muertes are made up of 5 different islands, one of which (Isla Sorna) has been used by InGen as the original breeding ground for the animals that had been placed in the Isla Nublar compound. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) is informed by former director of InGen John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) that the various compounds on Sorna were destroyed when Hurricane Klarissa passed over the island shortly after the Nublar incident. The animals now live on the island free and as nature intended. The rest of the films plot is irrelevent untill the last 30 minutes when Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard), the new director of InGen, attempts to remove an adult Tyrannosuarus from the island. On the ship that is taking it to San Diego (California) to be placed in a new InGen complex, the animal is given to low a doseage of tranquiliser. It breaks out of its holding pen and kills the crew of the ship. The ship then crashes into the San Diego docks and the Rex escapes into the city. Eventually, the Rex is trapped and taken back to Isla Sorna, but Ludlow is killed in the process. The next event in the "Jurassic park saga" occurs four years after The Lost World. In Jurassic Park 3, Dr.Alan Grant (Sam Neill), is tricked into being part of a group that intend to land their aircraft on Isla Sorna. The couple at the head of the expedition need his guidence to help them find their 12 year old son who is missing, presumed dead, on the island after a para-sailing accident 8 weeks previously. They succesfully land on the island, but soon realise their mistake and try to leave. They fail to do so due to an undisclosed InGen creation, Spinosaurus Aegypticus. Most of the group escape from the island with their lives after Grant manages to call for help, and the military save them. Unfortunately though, Pteranodons follow their escape helicopters looking for a new nesting site. Who knows what further events will occur in the Jurassic Park series? -Evilgrinch
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 Picture taken from Universal Pictures "Jurassic Park 3" (2001) Cooper (John Diehl) trys to signal the plane as it zooms towards him along the Isla Sorna runway. |
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