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Coming home from an extraction mission abroad, special forces operative
Ava (Sarah T. Cohen) finds her archeologist parents (Tony Goodall, Nicola
Wright) gone, and after some digging, she finds out they've finally
managed to track down the uncharted island her grandfather had gone
missing ages ago while on an expedition, and now went there to at least
bring back his findings. They just never returned. Now with her military
training, Ava is more than equipped to go on a rescue mission, and she
brings on her colleague/boyfriend Luke for additional muscle, and her
paleobotanist friends Cassie (Jamila Wingett) and Tommy (Ray Whelan) for
expertise, while hiring a yacht from drunk Michael (Ricardo Freitas) to
take them there. Seems like a well-balanced group, but once on the island,
our quintet has soon to learn they're in it way over their head, as the
island is populated by dinosaurs, many of them more than happy to feed on
humans. But as if that wasn't enough, Michael is soon attacked by a leech
that turns him into a violent zombie, who's as hard to escape as he is to
kill. And the problems only start there, so much so that the intended
rescue mission becomes a game of survival ...
Now Jurassic Island is not great cinema in the way that
Citizen Kane is - but somehow the title already indicates as much
-, and it might not even be the best dinosaur film ever, also due to a
moderate budget and thus only mediocre dinosaur effects. But what Jurassic
Island is is a fun romp that moves along at a steady pace, where
comedy and drama keep a good balance, and one where the characters are
more than just cannon fodder and it's not evident in the first five
minutes who's to survive, who's to die. So not a great movie, but good
genre entertainment nevertheless.
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