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This movie just had too many holes to be given a passing grade. One can dismiss unrealistic arm-twisting plot lines for only so long. Sure, they have to get on the island (once again) and sure they have to find some way out-that incredulous stuff aside, the thing that bugged me was that none of the stuff in between was very interesting either. For one, you never got the impression that they were on a real island. Drawn out moments of aimless dialogue were punctuated by noisy chase sequences which just came on arbitrarily simply on account of there being enough time elapsed since the last one. Even with the chase sequences, they seemed to be done (even fictionally) 'in the lab' because as our human characters are being chased through the forest, very little wildlife is seen to scamper about-the cast quite conveniently (from an animators' point of view) only encounter one monster at a time. The movie itself is a sterile Petri dish that simply emphasizes its artificialness and fails to give even an inkling of the grand imaginative worlds of JP1 and 2.

Despite the film's dubious premise, it is suprisingly good. It may have you wondering at first, but the story refrains from being overly simplistic. I wasn't very eager to see another "the only good guys are the gay ones" type movie where heterosexual women get the best of both worlds in a sensitive, caring, homosexual. Unfortunately this is how the movie was marketed; fortunately this is not where the movie ended. A definite movie to recommend.

A good idea but not taken far enough. The plot is painfully predictable once we realise he's eventually going to be saved. The most interesting developments were those on the island. A 'stranded' movie would have been more interesting. The rest of the movie serve as cheap white bread that sandwiches a good piece of meat. The whole project smells of uncertainty and indecision.