9 Film Characters Who Randomly Disappear With No Explanation

7. Nick Van Owen - The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World Vince Vaughn
Universal

While nowhere near as disappointing as Jurassic Park III, The Lost World: Jurassic Park failed to live up to the awe and tension captured in Steven Spielberg's 1993 original. The story is set four years after the events of the first film and focuses on a deserted island called Isla Sorna, home to a bunch of cloned dinosaurs (even the premise is lukewarm at best).

Throughout the film there are four fairly central characters: Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm, Julianne Moore's Sarah Harding, Vanessa Lee Chester's Kelly Curtis and Vince Vaughn's Nick Van Owen. When all goes to hell, these are the characters the film focuses on. Which makes it incredibly baffling that Nick (who shows up at the very beginning and guides Malcolm through much of what follows) gets absolutely no narrative resolution.

The last audiences see of Vaughn is when he runs ahead to the InGen Worker's Village to call for rescue, but that's not the close of the movie; there's still a substantial amount of dino-action left, including the tyrannosaurus rex attack in San Diego. In fact, at the very end, Malcolm, Harding and Curtis all get to share in the profundity of life finding a way, but poor ol' Vince Vaughn is nowhere to be seen.

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