10 Movies That Relied On Deus Ex Machina

After evading the velociraptors via the air duct into the main hall of the visitor centre, Grant, Sattler, Lex and Tim are quickly surrounded again by the angry dinosaurs with seemingly no other options for escape. It seems they are doomed, when suddenly, out of nowhere, the Tyrannosaurus Rex lunges forwards and bites the attacking raptor out of the air, saving them.

Bear in mind, there was a whole, drawn out scene earlier in the movie where it was emphasised how you could hear and feel the T-Rex coming from miles away, so it seems very implausible that it would be able to sneak up on them like this. Additionally, how did it fit into the visitor centre without breaking through a wall, and why does it only attack the raptors, ignoring the humans, allowing them to make a convenient exit?

Interestingly this final scene was completely made up for the movie and doesn’t appear in the original novel. In the book, Grant kills the velociraptors by feeding them poisoned eggs.

The ‘T-Rex saves the day’ plot device was used again in Jurassic World, but handled better this time, with Clare actually running off to seek it out and leading it back to them with a flare, giving it an actual reason to be there. However, the Indominus Rex is still killed in deus ex machina style when the Mosasaurus leaps out of the water!