The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
The very wanted sequel to the original Jurassic Park, an amazing freaking movie, filled with really interesting characters, like Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum), and even more interesting and cool dinosaur shenanigans, like compys actually killing a guy, people getting licked by a T-Rex, and alot of cool velociraptor moments, and the finale of bringing a freaking T-Rex to San Diego, wrecking havoc everywhere it goes, all in all a really fantastic movie.
The Lost World is a worthy sequel to the awesome Jurassic Park. Spielberg is back at the director's chair- though not many knew at the time he'd never helm a Jurassic film again- and the script is sound. Many criticize the last segment when it becomes a sort of King Kong with Dinosaurs aka a T-Rex loose in the city but I didn't mind it. The effects are great, acting is good though no one really cares about the characters as long as there are dinos chewing people and the direction is sound. The Lost World may not be as good as Jurassic Park but it's a good sequel.
While the first Jurassic Park swept us off our feet, the second installment (while still impressively made) had a weeker story, poorly written antagonists and a confusing tone, suddenly turning to a really stupid comedy during the t-rex's rampage in San Diego. Worst of all it is just a really sloppy movie, with several continuity errors, bad character reactions and second rate slasher movie (lets walk by my lonesome and get eaten) behaviour. Skip this one.
I always loved this film and I never knew why until I saw the review of it by Klayton Fioriti on youtube. Remember the butterfly effect that Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) explains to Ellen Sattler (Laura Dern) in the first film? Well, we are seeing this effect in The Lost World via Nick van Owen character played by Vince Vaughn. This film has two opposite characters, the big game hunter white man Roland Tembo (Pete Postlewaite) and van Owen, the hunter who hunts for trophy and pleasure and the envirnonmentalist who wants to save the dinos. Seems like the typical bad guy vs good guy fight, right? Wrong!This film blurs the line of right and wrong and it is so ambitious in its filmmaking that even today the effects hold really, really well!I highly recommend the film! If Aliens was to Alien the different take and style, so is The Lost World to Jurassic Park.10/10