13 Dumb Decisions In Jurassic Park Movies We Can't Forgive

10. T-Rex Loose In The City - The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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Ask yourself; do you remember much of this part from The Lost World?

After successfully defeating the Raptors, the survivors helicopter off the island and it feels like the movie could stop there. But because of plot reasons, the film carries on for what feels like forever with a hammy third act that shows a T-Rex rampaging through San Diego in search of its baby.

Don't get me wrong, dinosaurs loose in a city does feel like a natural course of escalation the Jurassic Park films would have eventually gone down (and it might be the case in Dominion), but after spending a large amount of the film on Isla Sorna, the film should have cut out when everyone evacuated the island.

Up to this point the film had already blessed us with some nail-biting sequences involving one or more T-Rex'; the film didn't need to glue a third one onto the end.

The film tags this sequence onto the end, thinking it's something audiences needed to see.

Had this been a major plot for a third movie, it would have been greatly received. But tagging this plot point on after over an hour on the island just feels exhausting and a last-minute addition.

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