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Movies that feel likeJurassic Park III (2001)

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

If you loved Jurassic Park III, the closest films we have are Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Rocketeer (1991) and Superman Returns (2006). All three share Jurassic Park III's epic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Predator (1987).

🍅 49% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joe Johnstonepictensecerebralkinetic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Jurassic Park (1993) · The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) · Jurassic World (2015) · Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) · Jurassic World Dominion (2022) · Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)

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Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · dir. Joe Johnston
🍅 80%★ 6.9action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

Joe Johnston working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

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The Rocketeer
1991 · dir. Joe Johnston
🍅 73%★ 6.6adventure · science fictionDisney+

Both are Joe Johnston's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Easier on the tension than Jurassic Park III

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

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Superman Returns
2006 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 72%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventureMax

Both land scale and ideas at once

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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Predator
1987 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 65%★ 7.8science fiction · action · adventure

The same mix in both: tension, then momentum

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

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Hulk
2003 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 63%★ 5.7science fiction · adventure · action

Both are built on the same subject: dna

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Jurassic Park III does

Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.

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X2
2003 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 85%★ 7.4adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

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Push
2009 · dir. Paul McGuigan
🍅 23%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventure

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.

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Battleship
2012 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 33%★ 5.8thriller · action · adventureNetflix

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
2012 · dir. Brad Peyton
🍅 44%★ 5.7adventure · action · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mission

Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

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Jason Bourne
2016 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 55%★ 6.6action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic action in both cases

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

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🍅 38%★ 5.6science fiction · adventure · actionDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: airplane

The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.

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Bleeding Steel
2017 · dir. Leo Zhang
🍅 24%★ 5.2science fiction · action · adventure

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

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