Jurassic Park III
Finally a sequel to Jurassic Park with Alan Grant, not that idiot Ian Malcolm. The kid says so in the film itself, the chaos guy was full of shit.
Once again, bribery with a big check is enough to make the scientists get back to Isla Sorna, from The Lost World. This time, it’s a couple of billionaires looking for their son. Only after actually getting to the island, land, then wreck the plane does the whole story comes out: the check will not clear, the “mercenaries” are travel guides, and Biddle Enterprises is a bathroom fixtures store.
Since those aren’t enough lies, the “couple” was divorced, the kid was paragliding with his stepfather. The Dino-Soar company (great name) was eaten by dinos and the kid is alone on the island for two months.
Alan takes point when they explore the island avoiding Raptors and a new sailed dino that kills and eats a T-Rex right away, just to show this isn’t your momma’s Jurassic Park.
They avoid all that, until they get separated, Alan is saved by the kid, while the final “merc” is eaten by raptors. Only the parents and Billy the young palaeontologist remains.
The kid is a goddamn boy scout, surviving 2 months in the jungle by himself, eating vending machine crap. He even managed to collect T-Rex pee! The party meets up again after narrowly escaping the sailed dino, but disaster strikes: Billy got greedy and stole some Raptor eggs. That’s why they are being chased by those majestic creatures.
They need go through a big birdcage for pterodactyl, and Billy sacrifices himself to save the kid. He eventually survives and gets picked up by the end, but we don’t know that yet.
After that they travel by swamp boat, Apocalypse Now/King Kong/Anaconda style, and have a final showdown with the sailed dino, burning it for good.
The final confrontation is with the majestic Raptors, looking for the eggs. After giving them back, they all survive. Ellie literally calls the Marines to rescue them, and everything will be good: the couple gets back together making the kid very happy, and Alan has another chance to kick some State Department bureaucrat out of Ellie’s life.
This is way ahead of the World stupid films. It’s a better action film with an actual plot.
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