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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The Worst Film Ever
Fresh and Exciting
Absolutely the worst movie.
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
It has flaws and nothing will be as good as the original masterpiece but this has Dr. Ian Malcolm played by Jeff Goldblum as the lead which is literally one of the greatest characters ever created.
21 minutes in and we've had one dry exposition scene after the next. And repositioning quirky character actor Jeff Goldblum as lead (?) was a bad choice. This is the nadir of the series. Say what you will about JPIII but at least it got to the action quickly. And had better writers than the charmless hack David Koepp.
After the amazing Jurassic Park a sequel was inevitable and in 1997 this film Jurassic Park: The Lost World was released and it is a pretty disappointing film to watch to be honest. The premise of the film sees a small team travel to a twin island of the island from the first film to see what dinosaurs are alive. Going from supporting character to the lead is Jeff Goldblum as Dr Ian Malcolm and of course he is great in this film. It helps that I love him as an actor but Malcolm is the only character actually talking sense in this film and that you end up caring about. The supporting cast is completely different in this film, I actually liked Vince Vaughan in his role in the film, he had that snarky demeanour about him that we have grown to know but he gave a bit of depth to the role as well. I also really liked Pete Postlethwaite in this film, he plays a ruthless hunter in the film and I totally bought him in this role and thought he did a really goof job. However, Julianne Moore plays Goldblum's girlfriend in this film and I found her really annoying. Her character comes across as being overly arrogant and I didn't buy her and Goldblum's chemistry at all. Also I didn't care about the whole daughter character and felt it was shoehorned in to try and add some heart to the film that just isn't there. The story for me was the weakest part of the film, I felt like the whole plot just feels like an excuse to get these characters back on an island without much real interesting motivations. Also the last act of the film feels like a different film and doesn't fit very well with the overall plot of the film. The script has some decent humour in it especially from Goldblum, even though I don't feel like it worked as much as the first film. The drama doesn't hit anywhere near as much as the previous film and I think that is why I didn't really care about this film. The style of the film still has some decent CGI Dinosaurs in it even though again it doesn't feel as marvellous as the first film. Also I feel like the pacing is a bit of an issue as this film feels about 20 minutes too long for sure. Overall this is a step down from the original film and its not that bad but is just a bit uninspiring and not memorable.
Continuing my plan to watch every Steven Spielberg movie in order, I come Jurassic Park: The Lost WorldI think this movie is the worst type of sequel. A Box Office sequel. The whole site B idea is awful. We seen eggs hatch and all the Dino DNA on the island in the first one. Lazy. Lazy. Lazy. And, because it doesn't offer anything new or innovative, it seems rather familiar and almost boring.It does have some cool bits. The image of the trail of the raptors approaching the survivors in the field looks great. The trailer over the cliff sequence looked good and was intense when Moore was on the glass, but over all it made little sense and was just one of the movies many action sequences. The human character are as cardboard as they come, and are scripted to do stupid things (than nobody would ever do in this situation) so the dinosaurs can chase and eat them.An awful lot of it is set at night!! The night scenes allow Spielberg to use his most familiar visual trademark, the visible beams from powerful flashlights. Another Spielberg trademark is the absent Dad (this time played by Goldblum) Even a press conference announcing a dinosaur park is held at night. The Lost World was the third highest grossing movie of 1997. Only Men In Black and Titanic grossed more than its $229 million domestic haul.