Review of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) by Mrmoviebuff — 17 Jul 2015

A little underrated...I don't think it's as bad as most critics say it is, but it isn't quite the breath of fresh air that the first film was.

Here, Dr Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) goes to the "Lost World" in order to find his girlfriend, Sarah (Julianne Moore), but end up in more incidents as there are more dinosaurs who continue to eat people.

'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' still offers plenty of thrills and suspense that we've seen in the first film. Spielberg, of course, doesn't chicken out on the violence either, there are many scenes where we see characters trying to run from the dinosaurs and are eaten or stamped on with blood spilling from time to time...is this a "family movie"? The film even opens up with a little girl who we assume gets eaten by little dinosaurs known as compies. This scene can be intense for young kids, I'm sure.

All in all, I think this is a good blockbuster, you still get dinosaurs that look as real as real can be, you still get that added suspense and you still get the fast-paced thrills. The only major flaw would be the bloated run-time, the film does drag from time to time and too many characters get attacked, more so than in the first film, which can make the dinosaur attacks seem a little, "been there, done that".

I give it a 7/10.