By far the weakest of the trilogy

Rating: 5/10 (19 July 2001)

The special effects are state of the art. It's the dumb storyline that made me trash it.

SPOILER ALERT
This is basically about hunters and greedy people hunting the dinosaurs like big game. That part of it was dumb as a rock. And there's no scene in The Lost World that comes close to the T. rex scene in the original, where he trashes the SUVs and comes face to face with Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill).

Also, the scene where Jeff Goldblum's stowaway daughter does a gymnastic routine (on uneven bars that are CONVENIENTLY present) was about as dumb as you can get.
I absolutely LOVED Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in Jurassic Park I, but he doesn't manage to carry this movie. And that brings me to an extremely important point--this movie needed the character of Dr. Alan Grant.

Also, when the T. rex is loose and running around in California, that was retarded.
Bottom line--if you have to miss one of the three Jurassic Park films, for God's sake, don't watch this steamy turd.