The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

This movie is very underrated, but i can relate to the critics. Something that i love about this movie it's that it wanted to change, and make something different from the original, but it doesn't have the relatable characters, the magic, the memorable scenes and other things. The San Diego scene is pretty good but it feels out of the movie and more like a monster movie. I really like Ian Malcolm here, but Sarah and Nick are flat and stupid, horrible characters. Roland Tembo is the only good characters over the lot of new characters (seriously there's a lot of new characters, which don't even develop over the movie) But i still enjoy it, but it doesn't have the rewatch ability of the original, i can see see the original one time on a week but i need a month to enjoy this one.

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.

The Lost World follows the same logic of most big budged sequels, bigger is better and louder. Unfortionaly, while it does not come close to the perfection that was "Jurassic Park" and it does miss a few targets along the way, it's still one hell of a fun ride with a winning performance by Jeff Goldblum and a scene stealing performance the late Pete Postlethwaite. Add Spielberg's directing, Sam Winston's dynamic Dinosaurs effects and some of the scariest scenes in the entire Jurassic series, then you have a sequel that is truly worthy of the name Jurassic Park. Too bad the sequels that followed did not have this film's playful showmanship to try to bring something more to the table.

There's another island. Isla Sorna is where the dinosaurs were raised and also where a rich little girl wanders into a compsognathus attack. From this opening, you know that you're in for a much darker ride. It's one of those movies where kindly Spielberg decides that he should have made Night Skies instead of E.T. and indulges all the meanness he has festering inside upon his characters.John Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow is trying to use the island to fix the losses that Jurassic Park incurred. The old man has taken a dramatic change of heart, realizing that he should have never tried to open a theme park all those years ago and that these dinosaurs need to be protected. If you're kind of taken aback by all of the character flip-flops here, buckle up. You know - because guys in their seventies suddenly stop being capitalists and suddenly start caring for the common man, like Peter on the road to Damascus. It can happen.Ian Malcolm is the only one that comes back, save for cameos from his grandchildren. Turns out that Julianne Moore is in this, playing Ian's girlfriend Dr. Sarah Harding, and that she's already on the island. For the last four years, Ian has been discredited and disbarred for speaking out on Jurassic Park. The last thing he wants to do is go back, but to save the girl he loves, he has to.Ian joins the team of equipment guy Eddie Carr and documentarian Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn), as well as his daughter Kelly who has stowed away. Just as they catch up with Dr. Sarah, a whole new InGen squad shows up, made up of mercs and hunters. Chief amongst them are Pete Postlethwaite as Roland Tembo, a big game hunter who dreams of bagging a T. Rex, Fargo's Peter Stormare as Dieter Stark and Dr. Robert Burke, a dinosaur expert played by Thomas F. Duffy (the demeted Charles Wilson from Death Wish 2!).Tembo's plan is to tie up a baby T. Rex and use it to lure in the mother or father. And InGen wants to get as many dinosaurs as possible so they can open a new Jurassic Park in San Diego. None of these ideas are good and they blow up in everyone's face.There's a great moment in here where all of Malcolm's team's vehicles plunge off a cliff and some nifty action pieces, but it all feels rather disjointed. By the time everyone teams up and gets off the island, I was kind of hoping the film was over, only to learn there was so much more movie left. It's a very late 90's style of blockbuster - give it more running time and more story versus more thinking.At the end, the dinosaurs are placed in an animal preserve free from human interference. Hammond steals Malcolm's line, saying that "Life will find a way."Spielberg eventually said that he didn't enjoy making this film. It kind of shows. He stated, "I beat myself up... growing more and more impatient with myself... It made me wistful about doing a talking picture because sometimes I got the feeling I was just making this big silent-roar movie... I found myself saying, 'Is that all there is? It's not enough for me.'"