Review of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) by Heatherm — 30 Jan 2015

While I have to admit that this movie is objectively worse than the original Jurassic Park, I think I actually liked it better. It can be frustrating, in that everyone seems to be constantly making the worst decisions possible, but it leads to some pretty spectacular action scenes (even if they are only loosely held together by the plot).

There are so many great deaths in this movie, since we have so many more disposable characters than in the first movie. And of course, the surprise ending where the t-rex gets loose in San Diego is just incredibly epic and over-the-top.

The whole movie, really, is just over-the-top in the best, most entertaining way. Also, I loved that there was so much more Jeff Goldblum--my biggest complaint about the original movie was that he got sidelined by an injury so early on, and so I was delighted to see him take the lead in this one.

This wasn't a great movie, but it's so much fun.