6/10
I liked it.
28 August 2000
This movie reminded of Jurassic Park. This movie was I believe more realistic but not as good.

1) Jurassic Park's plot was based off this movie. How I know, DNA research. H. G. Well's book was written in 1899 or around there. Jurassic Park was written in the late 1900s.

2) This movie I thought was a lot more doable. You can't take any mosquito and magically find just Dino DNA in it. It just doesn't happen. You can mix human and normal animal DNA more easily because of the fact they are both alive today.

3) Yes, this movie was a whole hell of a lot more depressing. JP ended with a kind of sad but relatively happen ending. Now, face it, a lot of things in this world do not end happily ever after. The world is not a fairy tale. Things don't always end happy.

4) The character's were majorly changed between the book and the movie of JP. The JP Owner was more of an a**hole in the book and gets killed. Certain other didn't die as they did in the book. The Island of Dr. Moreau had a mad scientist who was portrayed well, and had a Montgomery who you could tell was mad five minutes into the movie. Then there was Edward Douglas who played a role of being amazed by what the scientist was doing. To tell you the truth, his attitude wasn't out of line. If you telling certain people you are their father, why would you hurt your own children horribly more than they deserved. Montgomery and Dr. Moreau did not get along but ate together, which means they hid their differences when in a group of other people. Which is more of a professional way to handle a situation. Fairuza Balk played a very sweet person, Aissa, whom did not like the changes she was going through. I believe everybody did an excellent job in acting. I do agree with most of the comments that say that the killing of the father may have been a little too graphic. If I was in this movie I would have liked to played Val Kilmer's role. His role was hella funny. Both movies had the same motto. "Life finds a way. You can't control everything."

5) Everything in JP was theory. Things in The Island of Dr. Moreau could probably actually happen. They will probably never ever have a Dinosaur Park in this world at any time in the future.

It wasn't an excellent film but wasn't horrible either.
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