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Jurassic Park III (2001) KILL COUNT is the eighty-sixth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
Twelve-year-old Eric Kirby and his adult family friend Ben Hildebrand go parasailing over the ocean near Isla Sorna. The boat's crew is killed by an unknown attacker, prompting Ben to detach the line before the boat crashes. Eric and he drift towards the island.
Eight weeks later, paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant has made a new discovery about the intelligence of velociraptors, but struggles to secure funding for his research. Grant discusses his discovery of a resonating larynx on fossilized raptor remains with his longtime colleague, Ellie. This, and his experience at Jurassic Park, leads him to believe that the original velociraptors were socially sophisticated. He hypothesizes that if they had not gone extinct and continued to evolve, their descendants—rather than humans—would have become Earth's dominant species. His assistant, Billy Brennan, uses a three-dimensional printer to replicate the velociraptor larynx.
Paul and Amanda Kirby, a seemingly wealthy couple, offer funding for Grant's research if he will give them an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. Grant reluctantly agrees and flies there with Paul, Amanda, Billy, and the Kirbys' mercenary associates Udesky and Cooper, and their pilot Nash. During the flight, Grant learns of the Kirbys' plan to land on the island; he protests, but Cooper knocks him unconscious.
Grant awakens to discover that they have landed. A Spinosaurus approaches the group, who board the plane to escape, leaving Cooper behind as he tries to reach the plane. The Spinosaurus emerges on the runway and devours Cooper. The plane tries to take off, but it hits the Spinosaurus and the plane crashes into the forest. The animal destroys the plane and devours Nash, who had possession of Paul's satellite phone. Fleeing, the survivors briefly escape it, but they encounter a T. rex. The Spinosaurus returns and the group escapes while the two dinosaurs engage in a battle, with the Spinosaurus killing the T. rex.
Grant learns that the Kirbys are actually a middle-class, divorced couple who are looking for their son Eric and Amanda's boyfriend Ben, who went missing on the island. Government agencies declined to help the Kirbys, so they brought Grant along as an expert because of his past experience at Jurassic Park. To their dismay, Grant reveals that he's only been to Isla Nublar, not Isla Sorna, and as such is just as lost as they are.
As they begin their search for Eric, the group finds Ben's parasail with his corpse attached to it. They take the parasail and then encounter raptor nests, and then they stumble upon an abandoned InGen compound. A raptor chases them and summons the rest of its pack; the group flees into a herd of Corythosaurus and Parasaurolophus, causing a stampede, and separating Grant and Udesky from the others. The raptors attack Udesky in an attempt to lure the others out of a tree, and almost succeed in attacking Amanda when she tries to descend to help him. The raptors' trap fails, and they kill Udesky by snapping his neck before departing.
Elsewhere, Grant watches the raptors communicating and suspects that they are searching for something. They ambush him, but hesitate to kill him, and he is subsequently rescued by Eric, who has survived in an overturned supply truck. The next day, Grant and Eric are reunited with Billy and the Kirbys after Eric hears the ringtone of his dad's satellite phone. The Spinosaurus, which has the satellite phone inside it after devouring Nash, suddenly appears and chases the group, but they manage to escape it by entering an abandoned observatory.
Grant discovers that Billy has taken two raptor eggs to use for funding, which provoked the raptor attacks. Grant decides to keep the eggs to ensure the group's survival. The group unknowingly enters a large aviary used to house Pteranodons, which attack the group and fly away with Eric. Billy rescues Eric using Ben's parasail, but is then attacked and seemingly killed by the Pteranodons. The rest of the group escapes the aviary, unknowingly leaving the door unlocked. They find a boat and make their way down a river.
That night, the group retrieves the ringing satellite phone from the feces of the Spinosaurus. Grant contacts Ellie and tells her where they are, but the Spinosaurus attacks the boat. Grant ignites the boat's fuel, causing the Spinosaurus to flee. The next morning, the group makes its way towards the coast, but is surrounded by the raptors. They surrender the eggs to the raptors while Grant uses the replica raptor larynx to confuse the pack, which runs off with the eggs.
The group reaches the coast and sees that the Marine Corps and the Navy have arrived to rescue them after Ellie called them. They discover that Billy, while seriously injured, has also been rescued. As they leave the island, they see the newly escaped Pteranodons fly by.
Deaths[]
- Enrique - Eaten by unknown animal - 3 mins in
- Helmsman - Eaten by unknown animal - 3 mins in
- (That's) Cooper (!) - Snapped up by Spinosaurus - 22 mins in
- Nash - Stepped on, head bitten by Spinosaurus - 23 mins in
- Ben Hildebrand - Again, who knows? Found as spooky skeleton - 34 mins in (skeleton found)
- Udesky - Neck snapped by Raptor - 44 mins in