What a waste of a good starting premise.

Rating: 4/10 (30 April 2002)

I really wanted to like this. It took me nine years before I finally got around to seeing it, and, well, I should have made it 50 more years, give or take a couple decades.
Look, I'm not necessarily categorically against movies that are mostly a special effects extravaganza, but this is too damn much. This movie had NO POINT whatsoever. I was lead to believe early on that there would be some sort of "don't mess with Mother Nature" moral to the story. Instead, things went to hell strictly because of human greed, rather than as a direct result of us playing God.
Did it have redeeming qualities? Yes, barely. Jeff Goldblum's hilarious character, for one, and a couple of all too rare decent child actors. Normally I would include the "general concept" as a redeeming quality, because I've always been good at filling in the blanks of a bad plot with my imagination, but there is a limit. Sometimes, the plot is so bad that all I can think about is how bad the plot is.
Ah, well. Will I go rent JP II and III? Yes. Why? Sheer curiousity about how much further the special effects evolved.