I was watching Jurassic Park on TV last night, and I got hit with a question I have never really asked myself before. WTF was the point of the Nedry character? I mean, we got an entire scene at the beginning of the movie introducing him, an ominous rival company, and a sub plot to jack a bunch of genetic research. Then we get another scene that established that he has infiltrated the park, and is working as the head of IT. Then another scene showing him disarming the fences, inadvertently sabotaging the entire park while he takes the genetic research. And a hole bunch of screen time of him trying to flee the park only to just end up as a happy meal. We even get screen time showing the fate of his embryo canister.
It seem like they devoted a shit ton of screen time to his character and the whole subplot only to kill him off like none of it mattered. You could have taken out his entire character, and replaced him hacking the fences with a power surge caused by the storm. The blond chick and Sam Jackson would still have had to go turn the power back on, that little girl would still have to reboot the system and turn the locks back on. It wouldnt have made any difference to the movie if he wasnt there.